Pearl Harbor survivor Mickey Ganitch transfixed several hundred people at a recent Veterans Day event at the USS Hornet in Alameda by recounting his memories of the day that Japanese planes bombed American battleships at the naval base in Hawaii.
Ganitch, who lives in San Leandro and turned 100 on Nov. 16, said he was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania but the ship was in dry dock on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, as he was preparing to play in its game against the USS Arizona for the Fleet Football Championship, which he described as the Navy’s equivalent of the Super Bowl.
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