It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity—and perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after

Traces events leading up to and resulting from the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States in

USS West Virginia BB-48 sunk at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, raised, May 17, 1942, rebuilt and modernized 1943 to 1944, entered the war against Japan in the

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly