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Title Unsinkable [sound recording audiobook download] : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett / James Sullivan.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2020.
Description 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital.
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-399).
Contents 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.
Performer Jacques Roy.
Summary "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."--Amazon.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: OverDrive Listen.
Format: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook.
Requires OverDrive app 3.0 (Windows) / 1.0 (Mac) / 1.0 (Windows Mobile)
Other edition Original 9781982147631
Subject Plunkett (Destroyer : DD 431)
United States. Navy -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Anzio.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Audiobooks.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
Other title Five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett
ISBN 9781797118789
1797118781
STANDARD # 312A1C36-DF51-438C-9904-01E04536A9E5 OverDrive
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