USN Landing Craft Infantry Large (LCI-L) Description & Employment in WW2 1944- HD
This fascinating and very detailed World War 2 U.S. Navy training film tells you everything you need know about LCI (L) infantry landing craft, inside & out, from conning tower to engine room, as well as tactics for air defense and specific formations & deployment for beach landings. Over 900 of these workhorse infantry landing craft were produced from 1943 to 1945, initially for the U.S. and Royal Navies, and later distributed to many Allies. LCI-Ls could carry up to 220 soldiers, with stacked bunk beds for long voyages & their basic equipment. (Larger & slower LSTs were used for landing Tanks and heavy equipment.) Typically these ships delivered their cargos soon after beaches were secured using lighter landing craft like Higgins Boats for the first attack, although in some cases, they were part of the initial assault.
4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (one forward, one amidships, two aft) provided air defense, as well as direct fire on the beach. LCI-Ls were ubiquitous in virtually all medium to large scale amphibious assaults from Sicily through D-Day in Normandy and the Island Hopping campaigns in the Pacific. Their relatively high top speed of 18 knots, 500 nmi range combined with a shallow draft and rapidly deployed landing ramps meant they could move in, deliver their troops & equipment and move out in a very short time.
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My late dad was exec on LCI #94 during the Okinawa campaign. His flotilla was USCG manned. They were used as all purpose vessels during the battle: delivering mail to capital ships, protecting the destroyers with smoke screens during kamikaze attacks, etc. 94 and her group were being saved to land troops on the Japanese mainland, had the invasion taken place.
My father was Chief Motor Machinist Mate on one of the gunboat versions of the LCI, known as an LCI(g), in the Pacific.
@aegontargaryen9322
2 ай бұрын
These craft were more complicated and did a lot more than I used to think . It looks like they had lots of duties . It must have been nerve racking serving aboard one of these things in the Pacific, your dad was a hero among many heroes bud
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Amazing! Thank you!
Excellent. I do so love those ships that actually did stuff to change the attack into success on the landing beach. Teamwork & skill.
Very interesting documentary. I never knew these craft had all this equipment on them . I thought they were just filled up prior to landing (from larger ships) . I know better now , thanks for posting
@ZenosWarbirds
2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
And, unusually for a landing-craft, a bit of a looker.
Some of these guys look like Dark Helmet...
@nomadmarauder-dw9re
3 ай бұрын
They were talkers. The humongous helmets were like that to accommodate earphones while still protecting the head. Their job was communication via intercom. There should be a microphone resting on the chest.