(WFIE) - Officials say the LST 325 landing ... inside the ship, and an onboard gift shop. According to officials, the LST 325 was built in 1942 and actively involved in the D-Day operations ...

Soldiers gathered their equipment from bunks belowdecks while tanks ... other four D-Day beaches combined. She might also have carried captured German soldiers. Burdette said the ship made her ...

A World War II Landing Ship Tank is docked in Cincinnati this week ... country.The ship was there during the invasion at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It was also at Sicily on July 10 ...

Following D-Day, the Nevada’s guns supported allied landing operations ... ferried troops on a small landing craft from the larger Navy LSTs (landing ship, tanks) to Omaha Beach. Shockley, who died in ...

The LST-325, which was commissioned in 1943, was one of many LSTs that took part in World War II's turning point -- the D-Day invasion ... who served aboard landing ship tanks, including those ...

A total of 830 landing craft tanks (LCTs) were deployed for ... without being as big a target as the bigger landing ships. “Their role after D-Day, was just as important – some made repeated ...

These war articles belonged to those who served aboard the USS LST 325, a landing ship tank that was involved in the invasion at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France.

According to the Department of Defense, Prevost became the executive officer of a tank landing ship and “participated in the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, as part of ...

Petty Officer 3rd Class Seth Shephard’s heart beat faster as he peered through the hazy morning fog from the deck of his landing ... As the ship approached shore on D-Day, Coxswain Herbert ...