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Subject: Re: Looking for LST 492 Info (Gus "Pops" Esto)


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Tony Adamski
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Date Posted: 17:36:21 12/19/02 Thu
In reply to: Nick Demilio 's message, "Looking for LST 492 Info (Gus "Pops" Esto)" on 16:22:12 11/19/02 Tue
Hi Nick: I am a sampson vet and I have a couple of web sites that you can look up your Grand fathers ship
Http://www.navsource.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/You will have to play around with the site to pull up his ship. If you have any trouble let me know and I will try to help. Take care. Tony
>My grandfather Gus "Pops" Esto was a bosun's mate on
>the LST 492 in 1944. Gus has been dead since 1969 and
>I am always looking for information about the 492 to
>help keep his memory alive. Anyone with any info about
>the 492 from Evansville to ETO and back home, any
>companion ships in Halifax convoy SC-154, or any of
>the 492's group in the ETO please contact me. I have
>Gus's old economically-worded diary from '44 and I am
>trying to add detail to the little that he wrote.
>Eager to hear anything, good, bad, or indifferent.
>Happy to share all info I have. Thanks.
>
>Nick Demilio
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