The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Billows of Black Smoke
The U.S.S. West Virginia and the U.S.S. Tennessee burn. "A huge waterspout splashed over the side of the ship and then tumbled down like an exhausted geyser," remembers Japanese commander Matsumura Midori, who fired one of the torpedoes that hit the West Virginia. "What a magnificent sight."

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