The Power of Defiance
The view of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor from a Japanese plane, Dec. 7, 1941. The West Virginia has just been hit. Japanese planes visible, top right.
As so often happens when you look back on a tragedy, it was little things breaking your way that turned out to make the difference between life and death. And so it was with the USS Nevada, moored right be…
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