Shipbuilding

Caption: "In World War II, Pittsburgh again was a key shipbuilding center.

LSTs (including the Navy's first) and other sea-going vessels by the hundreds slid into the Ohio River from the Dravo Corporation's Neville Island Yard. In one six-week period before D-Day, 15 LSTs were completed there. On Memorial Day, 1944, LST-750 totally financed by $5,000,000 worth of extra war bonds bought by Allegheny County residents, was launched before a crowd of 25,000 persons (shown here). Dravo, a leader in heavy construction, was founded in 1891 by Francis R. Dravo." (Dravo Corporation)

Notes: See illustrated cover of "The Dravo Slant."

Photographer:

Date: 30 May 1944.

Heading: Pittsburgh. Wars. World War II.

#: A806.

From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department,

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.