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Ships · United States · 1942-1945

Landing Craft Infantry

amphibious infantry landing craft

Bigger than the Higgins boat but still able to run straight onto a beach, the LCI carried up to 200 troops ashore down two narrow gangways at its bow, without needing to be lowered from a mother ship. Hundreds were built and used from North Africa to Normandy to the Pacific islands.

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crew~24
capacity~200 troops
displacement234 tons (standard), 389 full load
armamentMG, some fitted with rockets

Western Europe, Mediterranean and North Africa, Pacific

Sicily Invasion, July 1943. Soldiers loading bags and other items from a DUKW to USS LCI(L)-196, in the Scoglitti area. USS LCI(L)-196 (1943-1947), later LCI(G)-196 USS LCI(L)-196, a 246-ton landing craft, infantry, was
Sicily Invasion, July 1943. Soldiers loading bags and other items from a DUKW to USS LCI(L)-196, in the Scoglitti area. USS LCI(L)-196 (1943-1947), later LCI(G)-196 USS LCI(L)-196, a 246-ton landing craft, infantry, was Official U.S. Navy Photograph · Public domain · source

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