The LCI 713 (Landing Craft Infantry) was built in 1944, one of 923 LCIs constructed. They could carry 200 troops at a time and were 380 feet long At Mindinao, Philippines, it carried members of the 41st Infantry Division. This was a part of the Oregon National Guard.
THE LCI 713 was built in Neponset, Massachusetts and traversed the Panama Canal to get to the Pacific Ocean to fight.
The only other surviving LCI is the LCI-1091 in Eureka, California. (Not sure of the ship number here if they only built 923, though that number probably was the ones built during World War II. So the LCI 1091 might not have been a World War II vessel.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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