Create a New Forum Owner Login Contribute & Create Your Member account VoyUser Login (see contribute) VoyForums Directory/Categories No-ads: Completely remove ads from your forum VoyForums Homepage VoyForums News Help Desk VoyForums Exchange FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Search VoyForums

[ VoyUser Login optional ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1], 2, 3, 4 ]

WELCOME TO THE LST SAILORS TALK DECK.
Founded by our own Old Sea Dog

Subject: LST 492 Author: Paul Sullenberger [Edit] Date Posted: 05/12/09 07:55:24 When the 492 got to Mobile, the skipper. LCDR Ralph Newman, put out a plea through the newspaper that the crew would like to have a dog as a mascot. A couple of days later they received this Cocker Spaniel pup. I've talked to 5 different crew members of the 492, none of them can remember the pup's name, and all of them said that it was never destined to become an "Old Sea Dog" and either in Norfolk or Quonset Point RI, it got put ashore before they headed across the Atlantic for England in early 1944. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: LST 492 Author: Paul Sullenberger [Edit] Date Posted: 05/12/09 07:48:19 After the 158 was sunk, Dad and Ray both got to come home. Dad was assigned to the Evansville shipyard as part of the pre-commissioning unit of the LST 492. This is the deck gang, Dad is in the back row, 2nd from left. Front row on the right is Gus Esto, middle row, 5 from left is Paul Mackrell. I don't have names for any of the others. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]