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Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment
Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Ben Affleck, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Alec Baldwin, Pearl Harbor, the movie, explores the lives of two daring young pilots whose worlds are drastically altered by the events leading up to World War II. Offering a unique, behind-the-scenes glimpse of a blockbuster in the making, this illustrated volume features articles and sidebars detailing the making of the movie, including fascinating information about the special effects and music, as well as the roles of the director, producer, and editing teams.
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176 pages, Hardcover
First published May 23, 2001
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March 7, 2014
I liked the pictures. The visuals really make it come alive! The parts I liked most were on the bombing of Pearl Harbour and the making of the movie. Not so much interested in the US retaliation on Japan, but I understand why it was included.
May 4, 2015
This book was interesting to read. I liked how it showed what happened in real life and how they put it into the movie. I would definitely recommend reading this book it wasn't boring and was easy to read.
August 11, 2016
As with all books based on movies, the movie is better.
September 8, 2018
Well this is an awesome book on not only the movie but some of the events!
December 7, 2024
Who lets an explosion loving director make a romance film? We all know that December 7, 1941 was the day of infamy, and this film seems to prove it otherwise.
In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in World War I. After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally starts it, giving the boys their first experience at flight.
Eighteen years later, in January 1941, Danny and Rafe are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (a RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). A nurse named Evelyn meets Rafe and passes his medical exam despite his dyslexia. That night, Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a jaunt in New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day.
Danny, Evelyn and their fellow pilots and nurses are transferred to Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Rafe flies in numerous dogfights with the RAF against the Luftwaffe, becoming a flying ace, but is shot down over the English Channel and presumed to be killed in action. Danny gives Evelyn the news and she is devastated. Three months later, Evelyn and Danny develop feelings for each other. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe standing outside her door, having survived his aircraft crash. He goes to the Hula bar where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. Danny finds Rafe in the bar with the intention of making things right, but the two get into a fight.
Early the next morning, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona is obliterated with when an armor-piercing bomb detonates the ship's forward ammunition magazine, literally lifting the bow out of the water. The USS Oklahoma capsizes after several torpedoes strikes her, trapping hundreds of men inside. The USS West Virginia suffers severe damage. One bomb mortally wounds Captain Mervyn S. Bennion. Cook Dorie Miller, with no training with firearms, mans a .50 caliber machine gun and shoots down a Japanese plane. The USS Nevada makes a run for the sea, becoming a primary target during the second wave.
Danny and Rafe drive away in search of a still standing airfield, while Evelyn and the other nurses rush for the hospital. The nurses struggle to give emergency treatment to hundreds of injured. Rafe and Danny manage to get in the air in two P-40s. After causing four planes to crash into each other and another getting shot down by ground fire, the two shoot down seven Japanese Zeros. After landing, the two donate blood before helping rescue men out of the capsized USS Oklahoma.
The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and asks the US Congress to declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan. The survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead, including fellow nurses and pilots. Later, Danny and Rafe are assigned to travel stateside under newly promoted Lt. Colonel Doolittle for a secret mission. Before they leave, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child and that she will remain with Danny.
Upon their arrival in California, Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the silver star. Doolittle asks them to volunteer for a top secret mission, which they both accept. During the next three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers. In April, the raiders are sent towards Japan on board the USS Hornet, and are informed that their mission will involve bombing Tokyo and then landing in China. However, the Japanese discover them early, forcing the raiders to launch from a longer distance than planned. After a successful bombing run against Tokyo, the raiders crash-land on Japanese-occupied territory in China in a rice paddy. The Japanese Army pin down Rafe's plane, but Danny's crew flies over and shoots the Japanese patrol before crashing.
Danny is shot during the attack by Japanese patrols while the other pilots, Red and Gooz, kill off the remaining Japanese patrolmen. Before dying, Danny tells Rafe that he will have to be the father. Upon his return home, a visibly pregnant Evelyn sees Rafe getting off the aircraft, carrying Danny's coffin. Afterward, Evelyn and Miller are awarded medals, while Rafe is awarded his medal by President Roosevelt. Rafe and Evelyn, now married, visit Danny's grave with Danny and Evelyn's infant son, also named Danny. Rafe and baby Danny then fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that his father once had.
Okay, now about this film. It's a very rare movie that acknowledges the Chinese front actually existed. While the film's cinematography looks nice, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Midway already did this decades earlier and both films are way better, making this film a rip-off, and in addition Michael Bay's direction is not very good. Allegedly, Michael Bay wanted to do something similar to the former but with more modern special effects, but the studios insisted on several historical inaccuracies and the love triangle to cash in on the surprise success of Titanic. The first 45 minutes thankfully have none of Michael Bay's trademarks, like no explosions or helicopters flying in front of dramatic sunsets.
While Mako, Jon Voight, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dan Aykroyd give pretty good performances, the acting seems otherwise terrible, especially from Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale; additionally, Rafe, Danny and Evelyn are very bland and undeveloped characters.
When the attack on Pearl Harbor actually begins, Rafe and Danny are asleep in a car parked in the country. The main characters don't even take part in the film's central event, at least, not until later in the attack...The attack scene focuses on Battleship Row and the airfields and completely forgets about the sinking of the USS Utah on the other side of the harbor. At least the attack itself is a good action scene, even if it's disrespectful to the event's historical importance and an extremely inaccurate depiction of the actual sequence of events. During the attack scene Rafe and Danny are shoehorned into the role of two real-life heroes of the attack. As a result these two men, Second Lieutenants George S. Welch and Kenneth M. Taylor, are not even mentioned.
The film unfortunately has little involvement with Pearl Harbor for the majority of the runtime (the runtime is, even from today's standards, overlong at 183 minutes--3 hours and 3 minutes--with practically nothing interesting going on in this movie and only forty-five minutes of the three-hour film are about the battle, making the pacing so lazy and terrible), being mostly focused on an extremely dull love triangle, making the title misleading and the advertising false. Even the depiction of the Battle of Britain as being hopeless until an American pilot turned up did not go down well with British audiences, who were already not particularly pleased with Hollywood's tendency to write themselves into things the British did (see for example U-571). The military in this film is shown to look like undisciplined idiots, because it takes rather too much effort showing the U.S. forces as innocent and shocked, to the point they act more like confused children rather than trained fighting men when the attack comes. And the conclusion is lazy, with the love triangle resolved by the Japanese killing the male actor who didn't get top billing. Not only the film disrespects to much history and the fallen soldiers, it doesn't even honor it!
While the film did not vilify the Japanese as much as some had expected, they are still shown doing Inscrutable Foreign Things (such as planning the attack in a giant open-air pond) rather than planning in boring normal buildings as they actually did. There is a sequence of the Japanese launching a protracted strafing run against the hospital and dropping bombs there, which is very inaccurate and did not happen: the medical station was hit by gunfire (though this may have been AA gun rounds falling out of the sky or gunfire from the handful of planes engaged in dogfights) and one medical staff member was killed, but no bombs were dropped. Especially not on a random car in the hospital's parking lot, there were much more important targets for their limited supply of bombs.
As usual for a movie that has the involvement of Michael Bay, there are scenes that will make even the most patriotic American roll their eyes, particularly the shot of a massive United States of America flag billowing majestically in the water as the USS Oklahoma sinks. In several scenes, absolutely no effort is made to disguise the USS Constellation, a very obviously modern Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, variously standing in for the IJN Akagi and USS Hornet. Not much more effort is made to disguise that the 8-gun, 4-turret USS West Virginia is being played by the 9-gun, 3-turret USS Missouri, or that most of the ships that appear in non-CGI shots of the harbor are mothballed modern vessels built decades after the attack. The ship scenes also have a few plot holes, such as: when the ship is attacked, one of the sailors comes out of the ship while he's only wearing a towel and brushing his teeth; and when the ship starts to sink, one of the sailors says that he can't swim, so how does a sailor in the Navy not know how to swim?
An impressive number of real aircraft were assembled for the production, including some veteran planes modified for Tora! Tora! Tora! But the P-40s are computer-generated. The computer-generated imagery has aged poorly, with the computer-generated P-40s very obviously not having movable control surfaces. On the other hand, the practical effects, such as the three full-scale battleship bows, are very good. The sound effects are also actually good and even won the Academy Awards as well.
The film commits a litany of historical errors, from relatively minor issues like incorrect variants of aircraft being present, through things they ought to have noticed like a background building with "Est. 1953" painted on it, a brief shot of the USS Arizona Memorial in the background during a scene that takes place months before the attacks, or a glimpse of a 1990's vintage Amtrak Genesis locomotive during one of the scenes on the train, right up to to main-sequence impossibilities like Rafe joining an Eagle Squadron before any Eagle Squadrons were actually flying and at a time when he would have to have deserted from the US Army Air Forces in order to do so. It would be even more impossible for this same pilot to end up as part of the Doolittle Raid. There's even extremely clumsy noticeable product placement, with Coca-Cola bottles (logos carefully pointed at the camera) being used to collect blood for transfusions.
There are also some very strange contradictions such as Rafe cheating at the eye test using a note, even though his problem is that he is dyslexic and so the note would be no easier for him to read than the eye chart. And speaking of Rafe cheating, Rafe, in addition to being bland and undeveloped, is a very cocky, hot-tempered and unlikable protagonist hated by fans for being both, Gary-Stu and creator's pet.
Stiff, laughable dialogue, including the infamous "I think World War II just started!", a line so manifestly stupid it was changed in international releases. Jon Voight's reading of the famous "Day That Will Live In Infamy" speech, otherwise, is rousing, though the following scene of him standing up from his wheelchair is cringeworthy.
I give it an average rating, but it inspired me to do better on historical events than Michael Bay here. At least the scene where Pearl Harbor is actually attacked is amazing. The film itself is just another big-ass Hollywood blockbuster that promises so much and delivers so little. Until its release it was thought of as "the most realistic war movie ever", and although parts of the attack on Pearl Harbor will make you wince it in no way compares to how horrific the opening of Saving Private Ryan was. For me anyway, this hardly had any realism at all, the dog fight scenes reminded me of Star Wars or Independence Day or something. A friend of mine once said that this looked like it would be less like Saving Private Ryan and more like Titanic, and its much like Titanic in a couple ways: it's too long, it tells a love story with the historic events as a backdrop, and everyone knows the boat sinks at the end. But this flick fails on the drama side in a big way. It just didn't seem to work. And just when you think its over, it goes for another hour to show the Americans as heroes getting their revenge. This thing is jam packed with clichés and enough good old American corn to make you choke, yet it just didn't do it for me. That said though the big attack scene was outstanding and had some amazing FX and kinda made it all worthwhile, but how come that scene had great FX yet the President had such a remarkably fake chin?! I kinda wonder how historically accurate it is and what someone who was actually there would think of it. It wasn't a complete bore or anything, but I, and probably everyone else, expected so much more.
In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in World War I. After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally starts it, giving the boys their first experience at flight.
Eighteen years later, in January 1941, Danny and Rafe are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (a RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). A nurse named Evelyn meets Rafe and passes his medical exam despite his dyslexia. That night, Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a jaunt in New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day.
Danny, Evelyn and their fellow pilots and nurses are transferred to Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Rafe flies in numerous dogfights with the RAF against the Luftwaffe, becoming a flying ace, but is shot down over the English Channel and presumed to be killed in action. Danny gives Evelyn the news and she is devastated. Three months later, Evelyn and Danny develop feelings for each other. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe standing outside her door, having survived his aircraft crash. He goes to the Hula bar where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. Danny finds Rafe in the bar with the intention of making things right, but the two get into a fight.
Early the next morning, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona is obliterated with when an armor-piercing bomb detonates the ship's forward ammunition magazine, literally lifting the bow out of the water. The USS Oklahoma capsizes after several torpedoes strikes her, trapping hundreds of men inside. The USS West Virginia suffers severe damage. One bomb mortally wounds Captain Mervyn S. Bennion. Cook Dorie Miller, with no training with firearms, mans a .50 caliber machine gun and shoots down a Japanese plane. The USS Nevada makes a run for the sea, becoming a primary target during the second wave.
Danny and Rafe drive away in search of a still standing airfield, while Evelyn and the other nurses rush for the hospital. The nurses struggle to give emergency treatment to hundreds of injured. Rafe and Danny manage to get in the air in two P-40s. After causing four planes to crash into each other and another getting shot down by ground fire, the two shoot down seven Japanese Zeros. After landing, the two donate blood before helping rescue men out of the capsized USS Oklahoma.
The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and asks the US Congress to declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan. The survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead, including fellow nurses and pilots. Later, Danny and Rafe are assigned to travel stateside under newly promoted Lt. Colonel Doolittle for a secret mission. Before they leave, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child and that she will remain with Danny.
Upon their arrival in California, Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the silver star. Doolittle asks them to volunteer for a top secret mission, which they both accept. During the next three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers. In April, the raiders are sent towards Japan on board the USS Hornet, and are informed that their mission will involve bombing Tokyo and then landing in China. However, the Japanese discover them early, forcing the raiders to launch from a longer distance than planned. After a successful bombing run against Tokyo, the raiders crash-land on Japanese-occupied territory in China in a rice paddy. The Japanese Army pin down Rafe's plane, but Danny's crew flies over and shoots the Japanese patrol before crashing.
Danny is shot during the attack by Japanese patrols while the other pilots, Red and Gooz, kill off the remaining Japanese patrolmen. Before dying, Danny tells Rafe that he will have to be the father. Upon his return home, a visibly pregnant Evelyn sees Rafe getting off the aircraft, carrying Danny's coffin. Afterward, Evelyn and Miller are awarded medals, while Rafe is awarded his medal by President Roosevelt. Rafe and Evelyn, now married, visit Danny's grave with Danny and Evelyn's infant son, also named Danny. Rafe and baby Danny then fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that his father once had.
Okay, now about this film. It's a very rare movie that acknowledges the Chinese front actually existed. While the film's cinematography looks nice, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Midway already did this decades earlier and both films are way better, making this film a rip-off, and in addition Michael Bay's direction is not very good. Allegedly, Michael Bay wanted to do something similar to the former but with more modern special effects, but the studios insisted on several historical inaccuracies and the love triangle to cash in on the surprise success of Titanic. The first 45 minutes thankfully have none of Michael Bay's trademarks, like no explosions or helicopters flying in front of dramatic sunsets.
While Mako, Jon Voight, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dan Aykroyd give pretty good performances, the acting seems otherwise terrible, especially from Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale; additionally, Rafe, Danny and Evelyn are very bland and undeveloped characters.
When the attack on Pearl Harbor actually begins, Rafe and Danny are asleep in a car parked in the country. The main characters don't even take part in the film's central event, at least, not until later in the attack...The attack scene focuses on Battleship Row and the airfields and completely forgets about the sinking of the USS Utah on the other side of the harbor. At least the attack itself is a good action scene, even if it's disrespectful to the event's historical importance and an extremely inaccurate depiction of the actual sequence of events. During the attack scene Rafe and Danny are shoehorned into the role of two real-life heroes of the attack. As a result these two men, Second Lieutenants George S. Welch and Kenneth M. Taylor, are not even mentioned.
The film unfortunately has little involvement with Pearl Harbor for the majority of the runtime (the runtime is, even from today's standards, overlong at 183 minutes--3 hours and 3 minutes--with practically nothing interesting going on in this movie and only forty-five minutes of the three-hour film are about the battle, making the pacing so lazy and terrible), being mostly focused on an extremely dull love triangle, making the title misleading and the advertising false. Even the depiction of the Battle of Britain as being hopeless until an American pilot turned up did not go down well with British audiences, who were already not particularly pleased with Hollywood's tendency to write themselves into things the British did (see for example U-571). The military in this film is shown to look like undisciplined idiots, because it takes rather too much effort showing the U.S. forces as innocent and shocked, to the point they act more like confused children rather than trained fighting men when the attack comes. And the conclusion is lazy, with the love triangle resolved by the Japanese killing the male actor who didn't get top billing. Not only the film disrespects to much history and the fallen soldiers, it doesn't even honor it!
While the film did not vilify the Japanese as much as some had expected, they are still shown doing Inscrutable Foreign Things (such as planning the attack in a giant open-air pond) rather than planning in boring normal buildings as they actually did. There is a sequence of the Japanese launching a protracted strafing run against the hospital and dropping bombs there, which is very inaccurate and did not happen: the medical station was hit by gunfire (though this may have been AA gun rounds falling out of the sky or gunfire from the handful of planes engaged in dogfights) and one medical staff member was killed, but no bombs were dropped. Especially not on a random car in the hospital's parking lot, there were much more important targets for their limited supply of bombs.
As usual for a movie that has the involvement of Michael Bay, there are scenes that will make even the most patriotic American roll their eyes, particularly the shot of a massive United States of America flag billowing majestically in the water as the USS Oklahoma sinks. In several scenes, absolutely no effort is made to disguise the USS Constellation, a very obviously modern Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, variously standing in for the IJN Akagi and USS Hornet. Not much more effort is made to disguise that the 8-gun, 4-turret USS West Virginia is being played by the 9-gun, 3-turret USS Missouri, or that most of the ships that appear in non-CGI shots of the harbor are mothballed modern vessels built decades after the attack. The ship scenes also have a few plot holes, such as: when the ship is attacked, one of the sailors comes out of the ship while he's only wearing a towel and brushing his teeth; and when the ship starts to sink, one of the sailors says that he can't swim, so how does a sailor in the Navy not know how to swim?
An impressive number of real aircraft were assembled for the production, including some veteran planes modified for Tora! Tora! Tora! But the P-40s are computer-generated. The computer-generated imagery has aged poorly, with the computer-generated P-40s very obviously not having movable control surfaces. On the other hand, the practical effects, such as the three full-scale battleship bows, are very good. The sound effects are also actually good and even won the Academy Awards as well.
The film commits a litany of historical errors, from relatively minor issues like incorrect variants of aircraft being present, through things they ought to have noticed like a background building with "Est. 1953" painted on it, a brief shot of the USS Arizona Memorial in the background during a scene that takes place months before the attacks, or a glimpse of a 1990's vintage Amtrak Genesis locomotive during one of the scenes on the train, right up to to main-sequence impossibilities like Rafe joining an Eagle Squadron before any Eagle Squadrons were actually flying and at a time when he would have to have deserted from the US Army Air Forces in order to do so. It would be even more impossible for this same pilot to end up as part of the Doolittle Raid. There's even extremely clumsy noticeable product placement, with Coca-Cola bottles (logos carefully pointed at the camera) being used to collect blood for transfusions.
There are also some very strange contradictions such as Rafe cheating at the eye test using a note, even though his problem is that he is dyslexic and so the note would be no easier for him to read than the eye chart. And speaking of Rafe cheating, Rafe, in addition to being bland and undeveloped, is a very cocky, hot-tempered and unlikable protagonist hated by fans for being both, Gary-Stu and creator's pet.
Stiff, laughable dialogue, including the infamous "I think World War II just started!", a line so manifestly stupid it was changed in international releases. Jon Voight's reading of the famous "Day That Will Live In Infamy" speech, otherwise, is rousing, though the following scene of him standing up from his wheelchair is cringeworthy.
I give it an average rating, but it inspired me to do better on historical events than Michael Bay here. At least the scene where Pearl Harbor is actually attacked is amazing. The film itself is just another big-ass Hollywood blockbuster that promises so much and delivers so little. Until its release it was thought of as "the most realistic war movie ever", and although parts of the attack on Pearl Harbor will make you wince it in no way compares to how horrific the opening of Saving Private Ryan was. For me anyway, this hardly had any realism at all, the dog fight scenes reminded me of Star Wars or Independence Day or something. A friend of mine once said that this looked like it would be less like Saving Private Ryan and more like Titanic, and its much like Titanic in a couple ways: it's too long, it tells a love story with the historic events as a backdrop, and everyone knows the boat sinks at the end. But this flick fails on the drama side in a big way. It just didn't seem to work. And just when you think its over, it goes for another hour to show the Americans as heroes getting their revenge. This thing is jam packed with clichés and enough good old American corn to make you choke, yet it just didn't do it for me. That said though the big attack scene was outstanding and had some amazing FX and kinda made it all worthwhile, but how come that scene had great FX yet the President had such a remarkably fake chin?! I kinda wonder how historically accurate it is and what someone who was actually there would think of it. It wasn't a complete bore or anything, but I, and probably everyone else, expected so much more.
September 1, 2022
I am very impressed with this book! I enjoyed the movie, but not near as much as the book! I was surprised to see so much history included. It is NOT just about the movie, but it is about the history, the people, the veterans. They met with many of the vets and listened to their stories first hand. They learned the history that many of the folks working on the movie were too young to know about or understand. Of course the info and photos on filming the movie are unbelievable too! If you enjoy learning more about WWII and Pearl Harbor, this book is a must!
I visited Pearl Harbor about 30 years ago, and everything they describe about the Arizona memorial, and the feeling of being there where it all happened resonated with me. When I was there, I was lucky enough to meet a veteran who volunteered at the visitor center regularly. He was actually a crew member of the Arizona. He had a scrap book that he shared with many of the tourists who would take the time to stop and speak with him. It was inspiring. He was really amazing. I loved that he was doing what he was doing. It is really what started my fascination in learning more about WWII. I purchased two books there at the visitor center, "Day of Infamy", and "Descent Into Darkness." And I have read dozens since. So much fascinating information about that war, about that time. About the people who came together as a nation, and the nation who came together with the Allies to fight Germany and Japan.
I visited Pearl Harbor about 30 years ago, and everything they describe about the Arizona memorial, and the feeling of being there where it all happened resonated with me. When I was there, I was lucky enough to meet a veteran who volunteered at the visitor center regularly. He was actually a crew member of the Arizona. He had a scrap book that he shared with many of the tourists who would take the time to stop and speak with him. It was inspiring. He was really amazing. I loved that he was doing what he was doing. It is really what started my fascination in learning more about WWII. I purchased two books there at the visitor center, "Day of Infamy", and "Descent Into Darkness." And I have read dozens since. So much fascinating information about that war, about that time. About the people who came together as a nation, and the nation who came together with the Allies to fight Germany and Japan.
October 21, 2018
If you were looking to know what went into making the film, prepare to be disappointed. If however you want a history lesson with movie making included, than this is for you.
I did like how they elaborated on how/why scenes made it into the film, or why costume decisions were made, and histories behind the selections. But that's what I was looking for. I already saw the film so I didn't want to have that rehashed. I may be a little jaded since I live there and have worked on Ford Island in construction and as a volunteer at the Pacific Aviation Museum. Bonus fact: That P-40 they have on display was here on Dec 7 1941 and was used in the movie as well as the movie 1941 with Jim Belushi.
I did like how they elaborated on how/why scenes made it into the film, or why costume decisions were made, and histories behind the selections. But that's what I was looking for. I already saw the film so I didn't want to have that rehashed. I may be a little jaded since I live there and have worked on Ford Island in construction and as a volunteer at the Pacific Aviation Museum. Bonus fact: That P-40 they have on display was here on Dec 7 1941 and was used in the movie as well as the movie 1941 with Jim Belushi.
October 13, 2008
This book was about the attack of pearl harbor. The Japanese were planning an attack on pearl harbor. The setting was in Pearl harbor. There was a lot of explosions and gun fire in this secret attack.
This was a very interesting book. This was an on level book for me. The way that they explained what happened in the book was amazing.This was a very good book and i hope to read more like it.
This was a very interesting book. This was an on level book for me. The way that they explained what happened in the book was amazing.This was a very good book and i hope to read more like it.
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