Unseen Body Blows: The Fighting LST 479 and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945 9781525538346

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Автор: Gay William A.
Название: Unseen Body Blows: The Fighting LST 479 and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945
ISBN: 9781525538346
Издательство: FriesenPress
Классификация:

Всеобщая и мировая история

Военная история

Вторая мировая война

Военные действия и оборона

Военно-морские силы и военные действия

Сражения и кампании

ISBN-10: 1525538349
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 270
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 09.04.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.55 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The "fighting lst 479" and its seven pacific campaigns, 1943-1945
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Between 1942 and 1945, 1,051 amphibious tank-landing ships were rapidly produced. These were anonymous vessels, slow and unwieldy, and in the words of one crewmember, they looked like bathtubs. At first, LSTs had a reputation of being expendable and of relatively low value, and so were bestowed another, less noble, nickname; Large Slow Targets. Put into service to get troops and equipment ashore, the story of LST 479 is in some respects the story of all of these ships. Typical of all early LSTs, its crew on commissioning day, April 19, 1943, consisted of raw amateurs. But over the next 1,046 days, through collisions, accidental groundings, navigational errors, and lots of mechanical breakdowns, the 479 crew became sailors. Displaying heroism and ingenuity, they rescued the crew of a crippled landing craft during an Alaskan storm, battled fires aboard a burning LST hit by kamikazes, and fought off air attacks on the way to Makin and Guam, at Saipan, in the Philippines and around Okinawa. This LST crew became the embodiment of the Navys 2018 recruiting slogan: Forged by the Sea. In gripping, meticulously researched, you are there fashion, author William A. Gay, recounts the fascinating history of the 479s seven Pacific campaigns; from the day-to-day life of the men aboard her, to their terrifying encounters in battle as they delivered unseen body blows to the enemy that helped win the war in the Pacific.

Unseen Body Blows: The Fighting LST 479 and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945, Gay William A.