The LCS(L)(3) ships provided more firepower per ton than any ship ever built for the USN. Three guns and ten rocket launchers comprised the main armament. The bow gun was a 3"/50 …

Commissioned USS LCS (L) (3)-51, 16 September 1944, LTjg. Howell D. Chickering USNR in command. Registered in 1948 by the Copper River Packing Co. as the freighter Makaka …

A Brief History of LCS(L) 51 Ship‘s company began assembling at Solomons ATB, Maryland around the middle of June as crew No. 3667, to be joined by the gunnery crew which had …

2006年6月12日 · On April 14, Laffey, accompanied by LCS 51 (landing craft, support) and LCS 116, arrived on station 51 miles north of Point Bolo on south-central Okinawa, which was used …

2019年6月7日 · Aboard LCS-116, now well off to the east and out of range of the Laffey and the 51, men had their hands just as full. Ray Davis, a forward 40mm gunner, had locked onto a …

During World War II USS LCS(L)(3)-31 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Three, CAPT. T.C. Aylward USN (23); LCS(L)(3) Group Seven, (Flagship) LCDR. E. P. …

All U.S. Navy Landing Craft of World War II, listed by type and class, with descriptions and links to individual pages.

Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II by Donald L. Ball Mill Neck Publications, 1997, 322 pages. During the Battle of Okinawa, LCS(L) (Landing Craft, Support (Large)) ships played a …

2016年12月7日 · Reaching station the next day, the Laffey was joined by two Landing Craft, Support, LCS-51 and LCS-116. LCSs were adaptations of Landing Craft, Infantry, heavily …

Defying all odds, this old ship will on 16 April observe the 65th anniversary of a brutal attack executed by a group of some 22 Japanese kamikaze aircraft on the 347-foot destroyer, …