The Lady Gangster: A Sailor's Memoir (SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Staecker, Del

Verlag: Cable Publishing, Brule, Wisconsin, 2009

Beschreibung

As new condition glossy black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Epilogue; USS Fuller History, Specifications, Awards and Citations, Campaigns/Operations 1941-1945, Significant Personal Decorations/Awards, Enemy Engaged and Destroyed, and Casualties; Photo Credits; Suggested Reading; and Author's Biography. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, map drawings, and front and rear endpaper maps. 2009 Branson Stars & Flags Book Award Winner. Signed by the author with blue pen at the lower section of the half title page. "Few books have previously been written about the vital role played by attack transports during World War II, so Del Staecker's book about his father's ship, the USS Fuller, comes as a great revelation. During that truly global war, millions of American troops had to be carried immense distances across all the oceans, and attack transports were the unglamorous but necessary mode of transportation. Staeker's superbly written voyage back in time (with his father narrating) provides the reader with an intimate and personal glimpse of what life was really like for the sailors involved in this almost totally overlooked (and very dangerous) aspect of World War II." - Flint Whitlock, author. "A true labor of love, Del Staecker's The Lady Gangster vividly captures the wartime spirit and experiences of the men aboard the USS Fuller, a World War II assault transport ship. From their introduction into combat at Guadalcanal until the titanic invasion of Okinawa, a span lasting almost the entire war, the members of the Fuller, including the author's father, stifled fears and frustrations and contributed to victory over a ready foe. Staecker provides an illuminating glimpse into one of the Pacific War's less publicized arenas." - John Wukovitz, author. "The ship is a real live being. She took on the personality of all the men who served on her. Mixed in the paint on her decks was the sweat and blood of a lot of boys from Chicago." - Irvin Staecker. "Brilliant assaults and heroic defensive stands are the remembered highlights of World War II's battles, but few ever wonder how troops and supplies arrived at their destinations, thereby overlooking the vital and dangerous efforts of the military men who sailed on auxiliary ships. Yet without the latter, victories would never have been possible. The U.S. Navy's Amphibious Force was a crucial component of the Allied victory that wore down and ultimately crushed Imperial Japan's dream of expansion throughout the Pacific region during World War II. Of the battle-tested attack transport ships involved in the war, only one, the USS Fuller, has a service record that stretched from Iceland and the British Isles to the beaches of Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Okinawa. She was known as the Queen of the Attack Transports, and with good cause. This remarkable story began in 1967 with a broken car radio and a father-and-son's cross-country trek. The two had been making uncomfortable small talk until the son asked, "Dad, will you tell me what you did in the war?" The father's answer is the amazing first-hand account of the USS Fuller, The Lady Gangster, an attack transport ship and its courageous crew of "Chicago Boys" who transformed from wide-eyed new recruits to weathered "Old Salts" braving enemy attacks while delivering troops and supplies during many of the toughest battles waged in the South Pacific. It is also the poignant tale of how a simple question forged a lasting bond between a father and his son." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006316

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Lady Gangster: A Sailor's Memoir (SIGNED...

Verlag: Cable Publishing, Brule, Wisconsin

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition