{"id":136012,"date":"2021-05-26T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=136012"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:29:32","slug":"wwii-uss-plunkett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#8217;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six years years after the end of World War II, that singular event continues to capture our interest and fascination. There&#8217;s a reason for that; the war combined two greatly compelling things \u2014 the epic, historic sweep of large-scale battles and the personal stories of the individual young men who fought in them with determined resolve and humble heroism.<\/p>\n<p>My guest has written a book that deftly&nbsp;combines both of these elements into a thoroughly&nbsp;memorable tale. His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/unsinkableplunkett.com\">James Sullivan<\/a> and he&#8217;s the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B084G9SB5H\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B084G9SB5H&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stucosuccess&amp;linkId=FSXA3GZUT5SFDAZ4\"><em>Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable&nbsp;Run of the U.S.S. Plunkett<\/em><\/a>. Today on the show, Jim shares the story of the <em>Plunkett<\/em> \u2014&nbsp;the only&nbsp;Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre \u2014&nbsp;as well as the stories of a group of men who served on this destroyer. We begin with the personal connection Jim has to the <em>Plunkett<\/em>, and how he got interested in learning&nbsp;more about the&nbsp;ship. Jim then explains the role the Navy&#8217;s destroyers&nbsp;played during WWII, before getting into the backstories of some of the men who served aboard the <em>Plunkett<\/em>. From there we delve into the escorting and landing operations the <em>Plunkett<\/em> was involved in leading up to its arrival along the Italian coast at Anzio, where a dozen German bombers bore down on the ship in one of the most savage attacks of the war, and how the ship yet lived to fight another day. We end our conversation with what happened to the men Jim profiled, how the war affected their lives, and how their lives affected Jim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six years years after the end of World War II, that singular event continues to capture our interest and fascination. There&#8217;s a reason for that; the war combined two greatly compelling things \u2014 the epic, historic sweep of large-scale battles and the personal stories of the individual young men who fought in them with determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":195106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42376,42385,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-podcast"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Unsinkable USS Plunkett of WWII | Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#039;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett | The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seventy-six years years after the end of World War II, that singular event continues to capture our interest and fascination. There&#8217;s a reason for that; the war combined two greatly compelling things \u2014 the epic, historic sweep of large-scale battles and the personal stories of the individual young men who fought in them with determined [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/artofmanliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"AoM Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@artofmanliness\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@artofmanliness\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"AoM Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"AoM Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4\"},\"headline\":\"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#8217;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":292,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/712.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Culture\",\"History\",\"Podcast\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2021\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Unsinkable USS Plunkett of WWII | Art of Manliness\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/712.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/712.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/712.png\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/culture\\\/history\\\/wwii-uss-plunkett\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#8217;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Art of Manliness\",\"description\":\"Men&#039;s Interest and Lifestyle\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artofmanliness.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4\",\"name\":\"AoM Team\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/beta.artofmanliness.com\\\/author\\\/aom-team\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Unsinkable USS Plunkett of WWII | Art of Manliness","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII's Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett | The Art of Manliness","og_description":"Seventy-six years years after the end of World War II, that singular event continues to capture our interest and fascination. There&#8217;s a reason for that; the war combined two greatly compelling things \u2014 the epic, historic sweep of large-scale battles and the personal stories of the individual young men who fought in them with determined [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/","og_site_name":"The Art of Manliness","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/artofmanliness","article_published_time":"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"AoM Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@artofmanliness","twitter_site":"@artofmanliness","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"AoM Team","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/"},"author":{"name":"AoM Team","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/#\/schema\/person\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4"},"headline":"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#8217;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett","datePublished":"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/"},"wordCount":292,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png","articleSection":["Culture","History","Podcast"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2021","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/","url":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/","name":"The Unsinkable USS Plunkett of WWII | Art of Manliness","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png","datePublished":"2021-05-26T15:43:44+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-14T01:29:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/#\/schema\/person\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/712.png","width":1280,"height":720},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/wwii-uss-plunkett\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Podcast #712: The Men and Mission of WWII&#8217;s Unsinkable U.S.S. Plunkett"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/","name":"The Art of Manliness","description":"Men&#039;s Interest and Lifestyle","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/#\/schema\/person\/28ff38880a7c6995e23ac063aaaa81d4","name":"AoM Team","url":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/author\/aom-team\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}