Name USS LCI(L)-339 Struck Unknown | Commissioned 30 December 1942 | |
Builder Brown Shipbuilding Company
Houston, Texas Fate Lost in action on Red Beach during landing at Lae Class and type LCI(L)-351-class large landing craft | ||
USS LCI(L)-339 was an amphibious assault ship (Landing Craft Infantry - Large), commissioned in 1942 by the United States Coast Guard. She participated in the Australian Army's 9th Division's landing at Lae on 4 September 1943, where she was abandoned after being hit during a Japanese air attack. The bomb exploded on the deck forward of the bridge, killing Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Wall, the commander of the 2/23rd Battalion and 6 others, and wounding 28. Her hulk was beached, until sometime later, when her hull was towed off the beach and cast adrift, becoming a wreck on a nearby reef.
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