Grounded WWII Ship Dislodged

WKMS | By The Associated Press,

Whitney Jones

Published October 4, 2012 at 7:03 AM CDT

A World War Two-era landing craft is on its way again after being grounded in Lake Barkley for two days. The LST 325 was freed from shallow water near Kuttawa yesterday evening. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Dan McQuate says a salvage expert directed a commercial tugboat to try to dislodge the boat, but it remained stuck through the afternoon. The LST ran aground Monday night after it left the navigation channel for unknown reasons. The LST 325 landed troops on the Normandy beaches in 1944, and is now a tourist attraction based in Evansville, Ind.

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Whitney Jones

Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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