Vintage 1945 Invader Shipyard Magazine Salutes Evansville IN WWII LST Book Photo

Description: Evansville ShipyardThe Invader Salutes Evansville May 1945 20-pages The Invader, a magazine-like publication of the Evansville (Indiana) Shipyard. ConditionNice Condition, Please review all pictures to see the condition of the item being sold. "The Invader Salutes Evansville" and contains dozens of photos of the city and those whose achievements contributed to the United States' efforts during World War II. Special mention is given to Briggs Corporation, Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Co., Bucyrus-Erie, Faultless Caster, Thirlwell-Henderson Marine, Hoosier Cardinal Corporation, Chrysler, International Steel, Republic Aviation, Servel Inc., Mead Johnson, Hercules Body Company, George Koch Sons, Wm. R. Bootz Manufacturing and Shane Uniform, among others. Evansville's schools, sports teams, places of worship and civil leaders also are saluted. The Invader would make a wonderful addition to any collection of Evansville or WWII home-front memorabilia We take great pride in customer satisfaction and accurate descriptions. If you receive the item and it is not as described, please let us know immediately so we may rectify the issue to your satisfaction. Your positive feedback and your satisfaction are very important to us About the Ship Yard Before the start of World War II, Evansville, Indiana, was a relatively sleepy Ohio River city, badly hurt by the Great Depression and with only a couple companies working on military contracts. And yet, by the end of the war, the city had been transformed into a uniquely productive center of manufacturing. Tens of thousands of new workers flooded into Evansville, to work at Republic Aviation or the Evansville Shipyard. The landing ship tank or “LST” that was built at the shipyard made an especially large impact—not just on the Evansville economy but on the fate of the war itself. Citizen Resilience In the early months of 1941, Evansville’s most prominent companies and citizens were worried the coming war would hurt their modest Midwestern city. As a member of the chamber of commerce admitted, “It looks like Evansville is the forgotten country, or no-man’s land. . . . We do not seem to be able to interest any one in Washington in this part of the state.” But those companies and citizens didn’t give up. They formed the Manufacturers Association Defense Committee, which conducted “a survey of all available machine and personnel facilities within 50 miles of Evansville to make it possible to pool resources.” Thanks to their hard work, the federal government didn’t forget Evansville—it decided to construct new facilities there. Overview of the Evansville shipyard in the spring of 1942. Courtesy of Evansville Museum/Evansville Vanderburgh On February 14, 1942, the Evansville Courier revealed that a shipyard was coming and that it was to be located on some forty-five acres of mostly derelict land along the Ohio River between the Mead Johnson Terminal and the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company Power Station. Hundreds of people started showing up to pick up applications. The navy kept a close eye on the construction. Commander F.M. McWhirter, the navy’s district security officer, wrote to the yard’s manager: “The danger of espionage and sabotage to all facilities producing war material is ever-present. Your shipyard is vital to the success of the whole war effort.” Worries over espionage and sabotage nearly shut down one of Evansville’s most beloved landmarks—Reitz Hill, which still dominates the West Side of Evansville and offers a commanding and spectacular view of the downtown and the Ohio River. The navy considered closing Reitz Hill to all traffic because it looked down on the new shipyard, and the navy’s lawyer argued that closing it was essential for “protection against sabotage and espionage.” The authorities felt that they had to go further and completely close Lemcke Avenue for fear of photographs being taken from a moving vehicle. Reitz Hill was a popular spot for local couples, and the Evansville Press’s “Home Front” column thought that the measure was excessive, joking that the navy was “afraid of peekers not petters.” Eventually the authorities decided that closing the street was not essential, and Lemcke, along with Reitz Hill, remained open for the duration of the war, although it was kept under surveillance by shipyard security guards using telescopes. In June 1942, the first keel was laid at the Evansville Shipyard—even as construction of the yard itself was clearly going on around it. Courtesy Evansville Museum/EVPL via Evansville in World War II By James Lachlan MacLeod (The History Press, 2015 $21.99) Once that shipyard was operational, it specialized in building LSTs. An LST was designed to sail right up onto a beach and then open its huge bow doors to disembark its cargo of tanks and other vehicles directly onto the beach. The Evansville Shipyard made more than 150 LSTs. With a peak employment of just under 20,000 workers, it became the largest inland facility that manufactured LSTs in the world. The LSTs were a crucial piece of technology during the war—not glamorous, but important, reliable, and easy to overlook, just like the city that made them. No less an authority than British prime minister Winston Churchill remarked that “the destinies of two great empires . . . seem to be tied up in some God-damned things called LSTs.” But emperors didn’t make those ships. 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The shallow draft and bow doors and ramps enabled amphibious assaults on almost any beach.

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