| SAMPSON Naval Training Center New York ................................................................................................ Adair
crew members acquired their boot training in many camps around U.S. At
least one member received it here. He was Louis R. Helsel and he
remembers it well. After boot he was assigned to Bainbridge Maryland
for gunnery school and then to Fort Pierce, Florida in preparation for
duty on PA91-15 in the Pacific.
... Sampson, in Seneca Co., W Central N.Y., on E shore of Seneca L., 12 mi/19 km S of Geneva; 42°44'N 76°55'W. had been built 1942 as a Naval Training Station, functioned for a time after 1946 as Sampson College, a state emergency college for veterans of World War II. View World War II Images ...... Great Lakes Boot Camp still exist: Great Lakes Naval Training Center Past Training Centers: Naval Training Center, San Diego Bainbridge Naval Training Center Farragut Naval Training Center |
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