Press Photo Howard K. Smith & Linda Alvers Host History Channel Program

All For Love -- On D-Day, June 6, 1999, the History Channel will air for the first time a most unusual World War II documentary -- a program written and produced by a young woman for her father. When Linda Alvers' father was stricken with Alzheimer's Disease, his past disappeared. As a way to repair this loss, and to understand her father better, Alvers turned detective, ransacking military archives and painstakingly locating men with whom he had served in the navy. The resulting tale is a saga of bravery and camaraderie that took her father and his fellow crew members from the D-Day invasion of Normandy to the kamikaze attacks of the Pacific, aboard the broad-beamed, ungraceful -- but indispensable -- landing ship with the unromantic name LST534. The film Alvers made from this story, "Onto Rugged Shores: The Voyage of LST534," airs on D-Day, June 6 on the History Channel. Veteran Journalist Howard K. Smith hosts and narrates. Photo: Howard K. Smith and Linda Alvers

Photo is undated.

Photo measures 7.75 x 10.25 inches.