If you find yourself in Evansville, IN and have an hour and a half to kill

I highly suggest going down to the riverfront of the Ohio and touring the LST-325 that participated in Operation Overload as well as other missions in the European Theater. It is the only fully operational LST remaining in the world. Once all the tanks and vehicles were unloaded these flat bottom ships then doubled as transports for wounded servicemen and POWs headed back to England before being reloaded. I always knew Evansville boomed in the 1940s and played a huge role in WW2 manufacturing output but the numbers I learned on Saturday were absurd. 96% of all .45 caliber bullets and hundreds of millions of .30 caliber bullets all manufactured in Evansville at their Chrysler plant. 6500+ P-47 Thunderbolts manufactured and 167 LSTs built in the shipyards before sailing them down to New Orleans where they were fitted with their deck guns.