Looking Backward: Don Banks - One TBF Turret Gunner's Story [Paperback]

Stephen A. Banks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Banks; First Edition edition (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981747302
• ISBN-13: 978-0981747309
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,716,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen A. Banks was born in December 1945 in Lackawanna, New York. After high school, he attended Miami University in Ohio on an NROTC scholarship. He graduated in 1968 with a B.S. in History and Government Education and was commissioned as an Ensign, U.S. Navy. He served aboard the destroyers USS SPROSTON (DD-577) (gunnery officer) and USS CARPENTER (DD-825) (ASW officer). With CARPENTER, he made deployments to the Western Pacific and the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. He attended the University at Buffalo Law School via the Navy's Excess Leave to Study Law Program. After graduation and admission to the bar, he transferred to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. In 1988, he retired from active duty and joined the Navy's Office of General Counsel as a civilian environmental litigation attorney. He retired from Navy OGC in 2006. In addition to "LOOKING BACKWARD: Don Banks - One TBF Turret Gunner's Story" - the story of his father and his father's WWII squadron (VC-66), he is the author of "A History of Composite Squadron Sixty-Six (VC-66) 21 June 1943 - 3 November 1944," "DOING MY DUTY: Corporal Elmer Dewey - One National Guard Doughboy's Experiences During The Pancho Villa Punitive Campaign And World War I," and the creator of a Navy squadron VC-66 (T-1) Web site. He spends his time now reading, researching, and writing about military history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars COMMENTS RECEIVED FROM A COMPOSITE SQUADRON SIXTY-SIX (VC-66) VETERAN, November 7, 2009

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This review is from: Looking Backward: Don Banks - One TBF Turret Gunner's Story (Paperback)

To the author - Stephen A. Banks. After reading "Looking Backward" for the third time, word for word, I want to express my sincere appreciation for the time and effort you spent on this tribute to your dad, Donald Banks. The consideration, the patience, and the dedication to accuracy and detail is certainly evident in this publication. I have talked with many of the squadron fellows, and all of them have had the highest respect and praise for your work. We owe a debt of gratitude for the work, and will forever be proud and grateful that the squadron, VC-66, has been recorded and published with a life long recognition. Thank you from a VC-66 WWII veteran.