The LCI 367 was commissioned August 23, 1943 and decommissioned October 2, 1946. It was a landing craft flotilla ship commanded by Lieutenant Saul Charles Smiley USNR.[1] The LCI was part of Group eleven, Flotilla four, and most notably was part of the capture and occupation of Okinawa during World War Two.[2]
Campaigns[]
- Assault, capture and occupation of Okinawa Japan. May 14 to June 30, 1945.[3]
Crew[]
Known crewmen to have served on the LCI 367 include:[4]
- Edward Harrison Able
- Warren Webster Dark
- Francis Xavier Fenton
- Edward Harrison Fenton
- Vasillios Emmanuel Georgiades
- William Bruce Glass
- Ray Morgan
- Andrew Joseph Milanese
- Umberto Bonosoro
- Ralph Chester Brown
- Lilton Lewis Butler
- Gertha Geroy Gannon
- Anthony Joseph Columbus
- Andrew Joseph Milanese
- Richard Joseph Gasar
- George Roy Gullion
- Robert Ellsworth Haupt
- James Hobbs
- Frederick Curtis Jewel
- Leonard Granville Marshal
- Pete Paulus
- Edward Joseph Porambo
- Harold Eugene McCauslin
- Doland James Preston
- Harry Ferguson Taylor
- Virgil Gale Whitmyer
- Charles Edward Younger
- Lt. Harris Brown
References[]
- ↑ "Shooting down suicide bombers was ‘harrowing'". http://archive.desertsun.com/article/20100108/NEWS01/1080312/Shooting-down-suicide-bombers-8216-harrowing-. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ↑ "USS LC(FF)-367". Navsource. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/15/150367.htm. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ↑ "USS LC(FF)-367". Navsource. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/15/150367.htm. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ↑ "Ships Newspaper". Navsource. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/15/pdf/150367b.pdf. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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