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Document: Two-page printout of the NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive page for USS LCI(L)-1065.

Language: English

Transcription conventions: text is transcribed word for word as printed, including the original capitalisation, spelling, spacing errors, and punctuation; nothing is corrected. Italic in the transcription reproduces italic in the original where it carries meaning (titles, emphasis); bold, colour, font size, and underlining of hyperlinks are not reproduced. Page breaks of the printout are marked [Page n]. Square brackets mark editorial matter, including text lost at page breaks and descriptions of images.

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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

[Image: United States flag]

Lost to enemy action, 24 October 1944

USS LCI(L)-1065

[Image: signal flags]

International Radio Call Sign:

November - Victor - Quebec - Sierra

NVQS

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

[Image: six ribbons in two rows]

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right

Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (24 October 1944) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)

Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)

Personnel Awards

[Image: ribbon]

Purple Heart (5 KIA 24 October 1944)

LCI(L)-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

• Laid down, 28 April 1944, at Defoe Ship Building Co., Bay City MI.

• Launched, 11 May 1944

• Commissioned USS LCI(L)-1065, 16 May 1944

• During World War II USS LCI(L)-1065 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:

[Image: campaign ribbon]

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns

Campaign and Dates

Leyte operations

Leyte landings, 16 to 24 October 1944

• Lost at sea due to enemy Kamikaze attack, 24 October 1944

• Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

• USS LCI(L)-1065 earned one battle star for World War II service

Specifications:

Displacement 236 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 t.(loaded)

Length 158' 5½"

Beam 23' 3"

Draft

> Light, 3'1½" mean > > Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10" aft > > Loaded, 5' 4" forward, 5' 11" aft

Speed

> 16 kts (max.) > > 14 kts maximum continuous

Complement

> 4 officers

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> 24 enlisted

Troop Capacity

> 6 officers > > 182 enlisted

Cargo Capacity 75 tons

Armor 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house

Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 knots; and 110 tons of fuel

Armament

> five single 20mm guns, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse > > on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added

Fuel Capacity

> Diesel 860 Bbls > > lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

> two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft > > single General Motors Main reduction gears > > two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators > > twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp


Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
[Photograph: ship moored, hull number 1065 visible]	16k	USS LCI(L)-1065 moored pierside, date and location unknown	Charlotte Kempf Bruch
[Photograph: crew assembled on deck]	48k	USS LCI(L)-1065 crew, date and location unknown	Charlotte Kempf Bruch
[Photograph: smoke column over water]	118k	USS LCI(L)-1065 on fire and just before sinking in Leyte Gulf after being struck by a suicide Betty bomber, 24 October 1944. She was struck at the same time as USS Sonoma (ATO-12). Ships went to her aid, but she was already blazing out of control by the time they arrived. This view is from USS LCI(L) 227, from the Frank S. Ford estate.	Brian Miller

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest

USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association

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Transcriber’s notes

The printout cuts off text at the top of page 1 (the end of a site notice) and at the foot of page 2 (the copyright line). Visible fragments are transcribed and marked.

The three photographs are described, not reproduced. The page’s thumbnails are too small to read beyond the “1065” on the hull in the first image.

The page gives no print or access date. The partly legible copyright range ending 2026 places the printout in 2026, consistent with the SortedByName printout of 15 July 2026. The filename keeps “Undated” because no date is printed in full.

NavSource cites its history to the Turner Publishing LCI association volume (1995). Treat the ship facts here as DERIVED. The commissioning date (16 May 1944) and loss date (24 October 1944, Leyte Gulf) agree with the muster rolls and reports of changes already in the Squitiere file, which show the crew received 16–17 May 1944 and Anthony B. Squitiere received aboard LST 464 for treatment from LCI 1065 on 26 October 1944.