around. The colonels wore a variety of expressions, some red-eyed and worn, others strenuously poker-faced. They heard that two thousand Americans had been killed, maybe more, including 1,177 crewmen aboard the battleship USS Arizona, incinerated by an armor-piercing bomb that had burrowed its way into the forward ammunition hold. Twenty-one ships sunk, almost two hundred planes destroyed. A good portion of the Pacific Fleet lay at the bottom of the ocean. Over
