14TH ANNUAL WEST REUNION ASSOCIATION REUNION SAILS INTO NKY

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14TH ANNUAL WEST REUNION ASSOCIATION REUNION SAILS INTO NKY

Fort Mitchell, KY/April 29, 2008—The 14th meeting of the West Reunion Association is scheduled for May 7-11 at the Drawbridge Inn.

The group is made up of three ships, which principally served in amphibian warfare during World War II in the Pacific. They were the USS White Marsh LSD 8, the USS Effingham APA 165 and the USS Shadwell LSD 15. The Effingham hauled Japanese Prisoners of War from China back to Japan.

Both the White Marsh and the Effingham were both decommissioned permanently within five years after the end of World War II. The Shadwell remains in use today as a fire fighting training vessel in Mobile, AL.

While in Northern Kentucky, about two dozen surviving members of the reunion group will visit the museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, will tour the Bourbon Trail in Central Kentucky and will drop anchor at Hofbrăuhaus Newport.

The mission of the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau is that of an aggressive sales, marketing, service and informational organization whose primary responsibility is to positively impact the Northern Kentucky economy through conventions, meetings and visitor expenditures. The direct economic impact of visitors' spending in Campbell, Kenton and Boone Counties in 2007 was $325 million.