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Subject: Sampson and LST-56 Author: Nancy Folsom [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 16:11:44 08/01/11 Mon My dad, Albert Henry Folsom, did his navy training at Sampson from 8/20/43 thru 10/16/43. He was initially sent to Sabine Pass on the Texas coast and assigned to a minesweeper. Then he went to Pittsburgh to be one of the handful of sailors tasked with sailing USS LST 56 down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans for fitting out. LST-56 convoyed across the North Atlantic from Halifax to England (with a cargo of citrus fruit on board) and took part in D-Day at Omaha Beach. Dad subsequently contracted tuberculosis and ended up back at Sampson at the Naval Hospital there (from 4/02/46 to 10/27/46) until his discharge to a private sanatorium... where he met his future wife, my mom, who was also being treated. I'm posting in remembrance of my father, and to see if there are any connections out there! God Bless the Greatest Generation. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Sampson and LST-56 David Hanna 12:11:14 08/24/11 Wed My Dad was too -- Tom Wilson, JR., 15:45:56 02/02/13 Sat My Dad was too -- Nancy Folsom, 14:17:44 06/16/13 Sun Photo of LST 56 -- Mel, 18:27:04 09/11/13 Wed billy -- hughes, 18:48:19 05/17/15 Sun My Grandfather Was Aboard LST-56 -- Jrod, 14:11:38 05/20/14 Tue LST 56 - Participation in the Invasion of Normandy 1944 Rachel 03:22:28 07/27/13 Sat I was a Corpsman at Sampson Naval Hospital Wallace R. Rust 10:11:17 12/31/14 Wed LST-56 Tracy Turner 19:25:09 09/11/15 Fri