Conaway: Our ghosts are calling this Memorial Day
The Sam H. Werner Military Museum is in Monteagle, Tennessee. (Courtesy The Werner Museum)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
USS LCT (5)-242 (Landing Craft, Tank, Mark 5) was a workhorse U.S. Navy ship and a war hero.
She had a displacement of 586 tons, and she was 114 feet long with a beam of 32 feet, 8 inches and a cargo capacity of 150 tons.
To put that in perspective, she could carry nine M4 Sherman tanks or six Churchill tanks 700 nautical miles at 10 knots and deliver them to a beach under fire like umbrellas in Destin, Florida.
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