Synopsis

The Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor represented an act of aggression unlike any seen before, abruptly ending America’s sense of security and plunging it into World War II. Yet, for six decades, sailors aboard the destroyer USS Ward maintained they had sunk a hostile submarine just outside the harbor, more than an hour prior to the commencement of the aerial bombing. The wreckage remained elusive, and their account was largely disregarded. Then, in August 2002, a deep-sea exploration team stumbl