Two crew members on the LCI(L)-600 were John Darrell Murphy and Tony Judkins, two best friends from Des Moines, Iowa who enlisted in the U.S. Navy December 10, 1943, and had their basic training near Chicago (Great Lakes) and were assigned to the East Coast and then to the newly-launched LCI(L)-600.
They went through the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor and from there to Ulithi in the Caroline Island.
When it was sunk on January 12, 1945, it was on a mission to transfer a sailor from his ship to a hospital ship for medical treatment. The captain had ordered the crew to their battle stations. Tony Judkins, a cook, had his at the forward gun. His friend John Murphy manned a gun near the wheelhouse.
The official Navy report from the time lists an undetermined explosion followed, but recent research of Japanese war records shows that the Japanese submarine I-36 released four Kaiten Special Attack Submarines on Jan. 12, 1945 and one of them struck the LCI(L)-600.
More to Come. --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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Thursday, May 15, 2014
LCI(L)-600
From the U-boat.net.
The LCI(L)-600 was built by the New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation in Barber, NJ. It was laid down on 27 March 1944, launched 29 April 1944 and commissioned the same day. That is a pretty amazing one month to build a ship that was 158-feet long that was designed to carry 200 troops. LCI(L) refers to Landing Craft Infantry (Large).
It was sunk 12 January 1945 by a Japanese Kaiten launched by the I-36.
--GreGen
The LCI(L)-600 was built by the New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation in Barber, NJ. It was laid down on 27 March 1944, launched 29 April 1944 and commissioned the same day. That is a pretty amazing one month to build a ship that was 158-feet long that was designed to carry 200 troops. LCI(L) refers to Landing Craft Infantry (Large).
It was sunk 12 January 1945 by a Japanese Kaiten launched by the I-36.
--GreGen
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The Last Mission of LCI (L)-600-- Part 1
From lagenweb.org by James Murphy.
The I-58, the Japanese submarine that sank the USS Indianapolis, on an earlier mission on Jan 12, 1945, launched all four human-manned torpedo submarines called Kaiten and is credited with sinking an escort carrier and a large oiler on that date. I could find no mention of an American escort carrier sinking that day or fleet oiler.
However, on that same date, the Japanese submarine I-36 released special attack submarines called Kaiten and is credited with sinking the LCI-L-600.
--GreGen
The I-58, the Japanese submarine that sank the USS Indianapolis, on an earlier mission on Jan 12, 1945, launched all four human-manned torpedo submarines called Kaiten and is credited with sinking an escort carrier and a large oiler on that date. I could find no mention of an American escort carrier sinking that day or fleet oiler.
However, on that same date, the Japanese submarine I-36 released special attack submarines called Kaiten and is credited with sinking the LCI-L-600.
--GreGen
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