LCI 77 and Semper Fubar

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Picked this up at a flea market years ago and thought it was very funny to have a shield with "SEMPER FUBAR" on it.

 

 

 

Never knew to what vessel it belonged to until on another forum a member pointed out it could have been an LCI or a LST. Sure enough doing some searching I found this link.

 

http://www.the-athenaeum.net/dispatches/stories/ship.html

 

 

I've tried to get ahold of the originator of this web site with no luck.

 

Here is the NAVSOURCE info on LCI 77

 

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/15/150077.htm

 

A "group picture" showing LCI 77 in the foreground, you can make out the shield design on the conning tower.