From Brooklyn to Tokyo Bay: A Sailor's Story of WWII
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Book details
- Author
- Albert Pincus
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topics
- World War II · US Navy · Pacific War · military memoir · coming of age · personal narrative
- ISBN-13
- 9781563119507 (Hardcover)9781681622293 (Paperback)
About the author
ALBERT R. PINCUS practiced law for 58 years, having been admitted to the New York State Bar in 1950, the Florida State Bar in 1973, and the Pennsylvania State Bar in 1998, before retiring in 2008.
Pincus was named Navy Vet of the Year in 2005 for his efforts to save and restore the last USS Landing Ship Medium built. He also received seven awards for land preservation from the Pennsylvania State Senate, House of Representatives, and County Commissioners.
When not writing, Pincus served as chairman and founder of the Buckingham Land Preservation Fund, Ltd. in Pennsylvania, and as a Navy veteran had served aboard the USS LSM 472, a landing ship that transported U.S. troops during World War II.