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During World War II, Evansville was the site of a Republic Aviation factory that built Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. [1]Plans to obtain an aircraft for display in the city began as early as 1986, when a former supervisor at the plant, Frank Whetsel, purchased the wreckage of a P-47D, serial number 42-8320, that had crashed in Lake Kerr in Florida and founded the P-47 Heritage Commission.
During World War II, Evansville was a major center of industrial production and, as a result, it helped wipe away the last lingering effects of the Depression. During the war employment jumped from 21,000 to 64,000 in just a few months. [21] People from around the tri-state area moved into the city to take advantage of the new employment ...
The Evansville Review is a literary journal published annually by the University of Evansville. Content includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and interviews by the students. [1] It was founded in 1989. [2] Notable past contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, and Shirley Ann Grau, among others.
A March 27, 1922 story in the Evansville Courier recounts the first public appearance of the Ku Klux Klan in Evansville. That story helped inspire the rise of eventual Grand Dragon and convicted ...
A clipping from the Sept. 2 1928 edition of the Evansville Press showing a rendering of the new Lincoln High School. But standing tall wasn’t always easy when segregation and prejudice were rampant.
Civil War re-enactors portray the Newburgh Raid in July 2016. Using the language of the 1862 Confederate Partisan Ranger Act, Johnson pictured himself in a book he wrote later in life as part of a military force operating in an irregular manner under the authority of such superiors as General Nathan Bedford Forrest and General John C. Breckinridge.
Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [ 4 ] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times stated, "Unsubtle, condensed and bullet-point simple, War Made Easy avoids fancy visuals for a uniformly drab and dispiriting aesthetic.
Casey and Vicky White, the fugitives captured in Evansville in 2022 after a cross-country search, will be the subjects of a Netflix documentary.