In November 2000, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard went looking for the first casualty of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor: a Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. destroyer one hour before the infamous Japanese air raid. What he found was ships, tanks, planes—virtually a “World War II museum of scrap,” according to Priit Vesilind, the expedition’s online correspondent. “We steam out to the deep water to test the underwater vehicles and gear.” Read Dispatch 1 >> Do You Remember the Attack? Share Your Story

Aerial of Pearl Harbor showing Ford Island at center   Photograph from Corbis

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