elsie item issue 69 - USS Landing Craft Infantry

Elsie Item Newsletters
Being Scanned into LCI Website
A project started at the Portland reunion by Affiliates is underway to scan all issues of the Elsie
Item newsletter, from the first issue, printed in August 1991 up to the most recent issue into the
USS LCI Website. We are starting at both ends and working towards the middle. Dennis
Blocker, Pacific Historian, scanned in issues 1 through 9. Affiliate Robert E. Wright, Jr. has
agreed to scan issues 43 to 53 and we already have issues 54 through 68 on the website. Jim
McCarthy left me a set of Elsie Items from No. 1 through 60 of which Wright has issues 43 to
53. Jim Talbert, Assn. Chairman sent a complete set of Elsie Items to Blocker for his scanning
effort.
Currently 23 issues of Elsie Item are on the LCI Website. Webmaster Hal Bleyhl has set up a
separate heading, under “Links” called Elsie Item Newsletters. If you would like to read the 23
issues currently on the website, here is the pathway in three easy steps. These steps give you
the Website and you might want to look around if you are not familiar with the site. Lots of good
stuff there.
http://www.usslci.com/
http://www.usslci.com/html/lcilinks.html
http://www.usslci.com/html/newsletterpage.html
Or, if you want a shortcut, skip the first two steps and enter the last one in the search window
and it will take you directly to the Elsie Items, then you can start reading. If you do not have a
computer, you might ask a family member with a computer to show you how to get into the website.
Make them go slow and take notes. Then you can go to a public library and use one of
their computers. I suggest you start with issues 54 through 68; they are quicker to open. And if
you are really lucky, your relative may get hooked on Elsie Items too and ask you “How do I join
this Association?” At which time you reach into your back pocket and pull out the folded LCI
Membership application, which you always carry, and present it to them. Good luck.
OOPS!!
With a bit of egg on our face, we need to make a correction from something in the last
issue. In the “Sea Stories” section we included one called “Air Raids, Monkeys, and
Dogs”(page 12). It was a good yarn, but we got the author’s name wrong. Tim Benton,
son of George Benton, gave us this correction:
“It seems somewhere along the line my name was switched with my father’s. He was a
MoMM2/c on the 752 and is a current LCI National Association member. I am his son
and should be listed as an affiliate member.”
Thanks for the correction, Tim! We’ll try to be more careful in the future.
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