02786cam a2200325 4500 479255018 TxAuBib 20210120120000.0 201029s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982147631 1982147636 TxAuBib Sullivan, James, 1965- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett / James Sullivan. Five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2020. xiii, 399 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Part I: the dawn. The goddamned harbor -- Boston -- Underway -- Overland -- Casablanca -- Steaming as before -- Part II: the med. Thornton, Colorado -- Sicily -- Palermo -- The boot -- Readying -- Salerno -- Part II: the dusk. Overland, Missouri -- The fall -- Anzio -- Aftermath. Bklst 11/01/2020. PW 10/04/2020. Kirkus 10/01/2020. "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." --book jacket. 20210120. Plunkett (Destroyer.) United States Navy Biography. Sailors United States Biography. WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American Europe. WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 Campaigns Italy Anzio.