elsie item issue 69 - USS Landing Craft Infantry
elsie item issue 69 - USS Landing Craft Infantry
elsie item issue 69 - USS Landing Craft Infantry
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Paddle from LCI 93 Found!<br />
After 60 years, a paddle from LCI 93 has been found!<br />
The wreckage of LCI 93, one of the Coast Guard manned LCIs that was lost at Normandy, has disappeared<br />
long ago but now a paddle belonging to that ship; has been found.<br />
Kevin Clarke, an Englishman who owns a house off of Utah Beach in Normandy, recently contacted<br />
LCI Historian John France with the news that the paddle had been found in his attic.. This house<br />
was in the middle of the drop zones for the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions on D Day. The<br />
house was occupied by two German officers at the time.<br />
Along with the pictures shown here, Kevin wrote, “ I have found lots of war memorabilia in and<br />
around the house as it was occupied by two German officers during the war and is right in the centre<br />
of the drop zones for the Airborne Div. I have dug up several spent carbine rounds in the garden - I’m<br />
sure some kind of firefight may have taken place there. It certainly makes gardening interesting!<br />
“My wife picked up 2 life belts off Utah Beach a couple of years ago, still in reasonable condition,<br />
amazing to think that they had been in and out of the water for over 60 years.
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