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03477aam a22005058i 4500 001 CA0149A2C36A11EBBDEE4DF25BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210602012120 008 210105s2021 meu db 000 0deng 010 $a 2021058789 020 $a 1432887149 020 $a 9781432887148 (large print : hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a D774.P5 $b S85 2021 082 00 $a 940.54/5973 $2 23 100 1 $a Sullivan, James, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Unsinkable : $b five man and the indomitable run of the USS Plunket / $c James Sullivan. 246 30 $a Five man and the indomitable run of the USS Plunket 250 $a Large Print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2021. 263 $a 2105 300 $a 593 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "More than the story of a single, savage engagement, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett's defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the "fightin'est ship" in the Navy, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and once again into battle during the invasion of Southern France--perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. Featuring five incredibly brave men--the indomitable skipper, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant, who's desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender, who's trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds, and another water tender, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault--the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship's story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs, war diaries, action reports, letters, journals, memoirs, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families, Unsinkable transcends historical appreciation of a single military ship to become a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives." $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Plunkett (Destroyer : DD-431) $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Europe. 650 0 $a Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944. 650 0 $a Sailors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Africa, North. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 9 945 $a lpt 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728013734.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20220111010825.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20211103010216.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210702012239.0 952 $l BKPC251 $d 20210617130628.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20210608010521.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210605010049.0 952 $l HCPC755 $d 20210602165417.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210602012745.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA0149A2C36A11EBBDEE4DF25BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search