The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, August 28, 2015

The LST That Become a "Highway" LST-393-- Part 1: 25 Years As MV Highway 16

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

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