World War II was fought across land, sea, and air. Soldiers and tanks battled on the ground, bombers and escort planes struck in the air, and battleships clashed at sea. WWII proved the dominance of air superiority as the key to naval warfare. Over the course of the war, naval combat evolved past the old-fashioned notion of colossal ships broadsiding each other to ships fighting from miles away via aircraft carriers and their fleets of fighter planes and bombers, especially in the early days of the war, when American torpedoes were notoriously unreliable. At Pearl Harbor, the surprise attack that...