William P (Madden) Karns: Military Record

William P Karns served in the United States Navy during World War Two. He served aboard LCI 603, based out of San Diego, California with an overseas porting at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

An LCI was a 'Landing Craft Infantry', which were several classes of sea-going amphibious assault ships of the Second World War, utilized to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches. They were used extensively for the D-Day landings, which began on 6 June 1944.
It would appear that William was assigned to LCI-603 after D-Day, as he was one of twenty men transferred from San Diego to Pearl Harbor on 27 July 1944:

REPORT OF CHANGES
OF U.S.S. LCI-603

	for the month ending 31 day of July 1944, date of sailing from San Diego, Calif. to [obliterated].


LCI-603

	Draft #1510	U.S. Receiving Station	31 July 1944
	63/wm	San Diego, California

	TO: R/S Pearl Harbor, T.H. Furas ComServPac. AUTH: CSCSFPF Ser 20512 of 27 July 1944.

1	HULL HAROLD L	9241685	S2C	V6S
2	HUMERICK JOHN	9276306	S2C	V6S
3	HUMMEL JOHN F	2515773	S2C	V6
4	HUNTER WILLIAM L	9276194	S2C	V6S
5	HURLEY LEON J	9066840	S2C	V6S
6	INGRAM THOMAS H	9061193	S2C	V6S
7	JACOBS NORMAN W	9276226	S2C	V6S
8	JACOBS LEE M	9276290	S2C	V6S
9	JENESKY WALTER	9245410	S2C	V6S
10	JESO WILLIAM M	9245412	S2C	V6S
11	JEW HENRY D 2ND	9245468	S2C	V6S
12	JOHNSTON LLOYD T	9248534	S2C	V6S
13	JONES EDWARD	9066818	S2C	V6S
14	JULIOT JAMES	2515885	S2C	V6
15	KABATRA JOHN M	9061267	S2C	V6S
16	KANDLE CARLETON H	9066820	S2C	V6S
17	KARNS WILLIAM P	9241696	S2C	V6S
18	KASE JAMES	9241666	S2C	V6S
19	KAULFERS C B SR	9061234	S2C	V6S
20	KEEFER WILLIAM L	9245488	S2C	V6S

ALTERNATES

NOTES:
1:	Because the majority of the records from the period are still confidential, I have not found a great deal of information relating to William's time in the Navy.
2:	S2C is the abbreviation for Seaman Second Class, the former name for Seaman Apprentice. The abbreviation V6S apparently signified that the person was a volunteer and was to be discharged six months after the end of the war.
3:	The above information was taken from a scanned image of the original record at www.ancestry.co.uk.

1	KELLER MARTIN G	9248586	S2C	V6S
2	KEPHART SAMUEL H	9248599	S2C	V6S

FINIS DRAFT #1510

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