From the June 10, 2013 M Live "Look back: WWII veteran ship spends time as a civilian on the Great Lakes" by Dave LeMieux.
LST-393, now a museum, spent 25 years as MV Highway 16 before becoming a museum in Muskegon, Michigan. During the war it was at at landings on Sicily, Salerno, Italy and was at Omaha Beach on D-Day. It won three Battle Stars during the war.
In 1948 it became MV Highway 16 when it began ferrying cars between Muskegon and Milwaukee.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Friday, August 28, 2015
The LST That Become a "Highway" LST-393-- Part 1: 25 Years As MV Highway 16
Labels:
D-Day,
Great Lakes,
LST-393,
LSTs,
MV Highway 16
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