All the Galland Men by Don Stratton

Before the US became ostensibly the world’s police force it’s foreign policy was essentially isolationist. Then as now the military establishment was more than happy to profit from supplying the matériel of war but it took the events of December 7, 1941 to bring America into the war and another two years before a substantial force could be mobilized and trained. The USS Arizona remains sunk in Pearl Harbour a graveyard for the men who served aboard her whose bodies were never recovered and a memorial to their sacrifice. This memoir tells the story of one of the few men who survived and uses archival material, diaries and letters to fill in the details. It serves to make history personal. The man whose memories were here transcribed by a ghost writer was 94 at time of publication. Most veterans are reluctant to dredge up old wounds and traumas. We are indebted to this man for sharing his.