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Landing Craft Infantry (Large) #196 near Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy - 1943-07-11 - US Naval Historical Center

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Photo #: NH 97260

Sicily Invasion, July 1943

Soldiers loading bags and other items from a DUKW to USS LCI(L)-196, in the Scoglitti area, 11 July 1943. Taken by a photographer from USS Ancon (AGC-4).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

USS LCI(L)-196 (1943-1947), later LCI(G)-196

USS LCI(L)-196, a 246-ton landing craft, infantry, was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company and commissioned in February 1943. She served in the Mediterranean Sea during 1943-44, participating in the invasions of Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Elba and Southern France. Modified for gunfire support of amphibious operations and renamed LCI(G)-196 in July 1945, she took part in occupation service in the western Pacific and China areas during the last months of 1945. Decommissioned after that duty, LCI(G)-196 was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in November 1947.

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