David Handschuh/New York Daily News Aaron Chabin, 91, was one of three veterans of Pearl Harbor who attended a ceremony commerating the 73rd anniversary of the attack. It was 73 years ago, but Aaron Chabin can still remember the sound of Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor.
The Queens veteran was just an 18-year-old private first class reading the Honolulu Advertiser on his bunk in Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941 when World War II reached American soil.
“We heard an explosion and somebody ran out to the balcony and planes came whizzing by,” said Chabin, 91.
An officer handed him a loaded .45-caliber pistol and said, “Six are for the (Japanese), one is for you. Don't be taken prisoner,” Chabin recalled.
The Bayside resident was one of three veterans who attended a ceremony at the Intrepid Museum honoring the date that will live in infamy.
Chabin, along with Armando "Chick" Galella, 93, of Sleepy Hollow and Robert Eakin, 94, of Bayonne, N.J., tossed a wreath anointed with water from Hawaii off the bow of the aircraft carrier as taps echoed across the Hudson River.
“Arguably the greatest outcome of this tragedy was the unity it inspired,” said museum Director Susan Marenoff-Zausner. “We are here today to celebrate that spirit and honor our heroes who displayed it so courageously.”
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