Joy Waldron is the coauthor of The USS Arizona: The Ship, the Men, the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Symbol That Aroused America. A journalist and editor, she has published numerous articles on World War II ships, survivors, and underwater archaeology. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bordeaux, France.
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In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its fir... SEE MORE