I’m posting this to you because I don’t know where else to post it. :^)
Does anyone know how I ping the Hoosier/Kentucky freepers to this?
May 2, 2007 Contact: Audra Levy
For Immediate Release (812) 436-4969
alevy@evansvillegis.com
History Channel to Evansville for LST D-Day Weekend
(EVANSVILLE, IN) – Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s office has just received word that a crew from the History Channel will be in Evansville to cover LST Operation D-Day re-enactments on June 2nd and 3rd, 2007. The crew will also stay to videotape the LST on June 5th.
There will be two re-enactment battles per day at Marina Pointe, home of the LST. Each will have a different battle scenario. One of the battles will involve the LST 325 “Higgins” landing boats, which were the small craft used to land troops on the beach during D-Day. These same Higgins boats were used in the filming of the movie, “Flags of our Fathers”.
American and German re-enactors from all over the Midwest will re-enact what happened at Normandy on June 6, 1944, the greatest amphibious invasion in history. The U.S.S. LST 325 saw service during that invasion and made more than 40 trips between England and Normandy, France, during the summer of 1944.
After World War II, LST 325 was used in military operations in the Arctic and later transferred to the Greek Navy. When the ship was decommissioned in 2000, the U.S.S. LST Ship Memorial acquired the ship to preserve it and brought it to Evansville. LST 325 is the last navigable landing ship tank in service today.
I'll get it, Sam, thanks. RTI I'm about 55 miles north of there, so there's a middlin-fair chance I can get down that way for the festivities.
I see archy’s going to take care of it. I imagine it would be posted to the Kentucky and Indiana pages.