(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 ...

America’s heroes went ashore during the D-Day invasion from an armada that included USS LST 393. That ship will again host a ...

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 ...

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 ...