Seventy-five years later, Galella - known to one and all as "Chick" - is left alone to tell the tale of what happened the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The two men were natives of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., both somewhat improbably stationed at the Hawaiian base when two waves of Japanese planes attacked.
The battleships U.S.S. West Virginia and U.S.S. Tennessee sat low in the water, burning after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Armando Galella was a 20-year-old kid from Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., an Army enlistee now 5,000 miles west of Washington Irving's old Hudson Valley haunts.
... to tell the tale of what happened the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The two men were natives of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., both somewhat improbably stationed at the Hawaiian base when two waves of Japanese planes attacked. "John Horan went ...