DreamWorks News: WWII Ship in 'Flags of our Fathers' May 30, 2005 - 12:41 AM
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World War II ship could debut in Steven Spielberg's and Clint Eastwood's Flag of Our Father before finding its new home in southern Indiana.
Warner Brothers has filed a letter of intent to use the U.S.S. LST 325 in the filming of Flag of Our Father, a movie that would be based on the James Bradley book about the famous photograph showing the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima. The August and September filming dates would delay the ship's arrival at its new home port at Marina Pointe. Evansville's mayor says the delay would not hurt area tourism as long as the ship was docked by October First. That's when the first LST-related convention was scheduled in the city.
The LST is identical to vessels built at the Evansville Shipyard from 1942 to 1945.
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