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Between the years 1942 and 1945, the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, Shipbuilding Division, constructed 167 LST's (Landing Ship,Tank) at the Evansville Shipyards. This book details the history of the shipyard, it tells the stories of the ships built there, and the brave crews who sailed them off to war. 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.In July, 2003, the USS LST 325 sailed majestically up the Ohio River to Evansville, Indiana. During her 11-day visit over 35,000 people toured this historic ship. While the LST 325 was a product of a Philadelphia shipyard, it is virtually identical to the LSTs that were constructed in Evansville's "Cornfield Shipyard." The return of an LST to Evansville's riverfront sparked a renewed interest in the Evansville Shipyard and the 167 LSTs built here. Therefore, in honor of the over 70,000 men and women who worked at the Evansville Shipyard and the thousands of brave men who served on the ships in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, we are proud to present this edition of "A Cornfield Shipyard " by Andrew L. Clark.12? x 9?136 Pages
Landing Ship Tanks (LST) were the lifeblood to the fighters in both theaters of World War II and the most famous of these was the LST 66. From her early days in the cornfield shipyard at Jeffersonville, to the days after the war when she awaited the ultimate fate at the Kaiser scrapyard in Seattle, this is the story of the most decorated Coast Guard manned LST. We Got Each Other Home provides an insight into the daily activities on board the 66 and riveting first-hand accounts and life stories from many former crewmembers who called this famous ship home.
Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation’s industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production, employment, and ultimately, national security. In this revised edition, Professor Manley R. Irwin brings forth an innovative approach to researching these policies, papers, and archives, adding additional research from new documents which expand, enhance, and complement the first edition. The book argues that Harding and Denby exercised unusual foresight in preparing the navy for a war against Japan. Both individuals promulgated structural changes in the department and adopted a set of management tools that would redound to the navy in its prosecution of its Pacific offensive in World War II. Irwin's thorough investigation and addition of new evidence from original documents provides invaluable details and insights into the lasting legacy of the Harding administration.
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the French School, the Dutch landscape painters and Turner and Constable of England are just a few of the great landscapists who have left their indelible mark on the history of landscape and the art of painting as a whole. After serving for a long time as a backdrop for paintings and as a skill-practising exercise for artists, nature came to be observed for its own sake and was incorporated into works of art as an illustration of an enlightened and scientific study of the world. Through continual change, it has inspired the greatest painters and has allowed some others, like Turner, to transcend the relentless search for mere realism in pictorial representation. Through this study, Émile Michel offers an exceptional panorama, from the 15th century to the present, of art and the way artists portray the world in all its splendour.
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest naval historians.World War II at Sea is his crowning achievement, a narrative of the entire war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas between 1939 and 1945.Here are the major engagements and their interconnections: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the scuttling of the French Navy; the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords and Mussolini's Regia Marina; the rise of the KidoButai and Pearl Harbor; the landings in North Africa and New Guinea, then on Normandy and Iwo Jima. Symonds offers indelible portraits of the great naval leaders - FDR and Churchill (self-proclaimed "Navy men"), Karl Donitz, Francois Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Louis Mountbatten, andWilliam Halsey - while acknowledging the countless seamen and officers of all nationalities whose lives were lost during the greatest naval conflicts ever fought. World War II at Sea is history on a truly epic scale.
A guide to Confederate records held in various repositories.