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WWII Ship Freed From Barkley Back in Evansville
By AP
EVANSVILLE, KY - A restored World War II troop landing ship that spent two days stuck in a western Kentucky lake has arrived back at its Indiana home port.
 
The LST-325 pulled into its Ohio River dock at Evansville Thursday evening after being freed a day earlier from Lake Barkley.
 
Relatives of crew members and others waited for the ship's arrival. Betty Voelker tells WFIE-TV she was disappointed when the ship was stranded with her husband, Jim, on board.
 
The ship's captain told the Evansville Courier & Press that it wasn't damaged.
 
The ship was returning to Evansville after a trip on the Cumberland River to Tennessee for stops at Nashville and Clarksville.

 


Published 07:42 AM, Friday Oct. 05, 2012
Updated 02:14 PM, Saturday Oct. 06, 2012

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