ORIGINAL: General Patton
ORIGINAL: m10bob
ORIGINAL: General Patton
Indianapolis doesn't have a port. stick with Chicago....GP
If even Columbus,Ohio can have a "Port", why can't Indy?
(Google or Bing search "Port Columbus")
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I'm still trying to figure out that one. Port Columbus is the airport. Although the name has been changed to John Glenn international airport. So in conclusion, Columbus doesn't have a SHIP port....GP
I never knew they renamed the Columbus airport!.
No, Indy does not have a port..They tried to dredge White River coming from the Wabash to Indy, and did manage to get a couple of the flat bottomed classic river boats there, but it proved too costly to maintain that dredging.
Indy did turn out a huge amount for the war effort, (Marmon Herrington, Allison aircraft engines,International Harvester trucks, half tracks, tanks, etc, and of course as the "Crossroads of America", its' highways were the literal equivalent of any port.
Evansville Indiana turned out LST's, most of the middle and late model Republic P 47's, and Studebaker was in South Bend.
My consideration of naming Chicago/Indy was not dependent on a waterway, but rather a matter of "contribution or point of origination, transportation wise.
Of course, Willow Run might be another name for the contributions of Detroit, etc., so there is a case for leaving it all under "Northern Midwest"?
Just one of the nice things about the editor, (which you helped me get running again), and I again thank you, old friend.
