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The pride of Evansville, IN LST 325 is the only Navy monument capable of independent movement. LST 325 is a faithful restoration of a working "workhorse of the sea" that carried US soldiers and Marines to war during WWII and Korea. The Memorial is also a tribute to the city's contribution to the war effort which saw 167 LSTs and 34 other ships of various types produced at the local shipyards making Evansville the highest producing of all the inland shipyards.
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A Cornfield Shipyard
A Cornfield Shipyard by Andrew L. Clark is a pictorial history of the Evansville Shipyard in Evansville, Indiana, which built Landing Ships, Tanks (LSTs) during World War II.
This pictorial book details the shipyard's operations, the ships built, and the crews who sailed them.
Published in 1991, the book is an oblong softcover filled with photographs, documenting the facility that became the nation's largest inland producer of LSTs, vital for Allied amphibious assaults.
The book contains significant historical text, and is illustrated with diagrams and photographs, many never before published. The book is now in its fourth printing and continues to be popular with former shipyard workers, former LST crewmen, and the families of these men and women.