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During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory. The Evansville Ordnance Plant made 96 percent of all .45-caliber ammunition used in the war, while the Republic Aviation Plant produced more than 6,500 P-47 Thunderbolts--almost half of all P-47s built during the war. At its peak, the local shipyard employed upward of eighteen thousand men and women who forged 167 of the iconic Landing Ship Tank vessels. In this captivating and fast-paced account, University of Evansville historian James Lachlan MacLeod reveals the enormous influence these wartime industries had on the social, economic and cultural life of the city.
The essays in this volume range widely and includes topics such as the role of religion in shaping American diversity: the lasting legacy of Puritanism in a multicultural society; the appropriation of religious space and national symbolism; the changing intersections of religion, race, and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; religious paradigms in ethnic autobiographies; religion and consumer culture; the religious imagination of American and European women; and the religious exchange between Europe and the United States as shown in illustrations, hymns, evangelism and contemporary worship practices.
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