The oily waters of Pearl Harbor still lap the misshapen, rusted hulks of three great warships. They are all that remains of the heart-sickening wreckage of Dec. 7, 1941, when the U.S. suffered the worst naval defeat in its history. Sixteen other vessels hit that day have been scrapped, sent to the mainland for repair, or returned to the fleet.
The battleship Oklahoma, once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of...
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