On Dec. 22, 1941, two weeks after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into World War II, Winston Churchill arrived at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia aboard the Duke of York. From there he made his way to Washington, D.C., where he would be hosted at the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt until early the following month. The two leaders used that time to plan military operations and cement the “special relationship” between the world’s foremost English-speaking nations. For Great Britain, the war was already long underway. Germany had launched its “blitzkrieg” in September...