Remains of Ohio sailor killed during Pearl Harbor attack identified over 80 years later
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A United States Navy sailor who was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II has been identified, more than 80 years after his death, officials announced this week. Navy Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, originally from Steubenville, Ohio, was killed on Dec. 7, 1941, along with over 100 crewmates, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) said in a news release on Monday. His remains were finally accounted for on May 23, 2022.
Galaszewski was assigned to the USS California, a battleship stationed at Pearl Harbor that was one of the first hit by torpedoes when the U.S. military base was attacked by Japanese aircraft.
The battleship was hit by multiple torpedoes and, later, a bomb, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. The USS California flooded, and as a mass of burning oil drifted toward it down "Battleship Row" — where the U.S. fleet was positioned in the harbor off the coast of Ford Island — the vessel caught fire and the crew abandoned ship. The ship was moored at Ford Island, where it sunk and was eventually raised about a year later.
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.
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