PEARL HARBOR

ELLIS
All right, Sir.
(he hangs up)
They say don't worry about it.

He and the private look again at the cloud of blips --
growing ever larger, and moving in fast.

EXT. THE SKIES ABOVE THE PACIFIC - DAY

The Japanese formations are streaking through the sky.

INT. THE COCKPITS - DAY

The Japanese bombers, with three-man crews, are listening to
the Hawaiian music of the radio station, using it for their
homing beacon. They look out and see the sunrise -- it's
beautiful, and resembles the Japanese flag.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE PEARL HARBOR - DAWN

The Japanese scout plane is high in the air. It radios --

SCOUT PLANE PILOT
Harbor quiet. Ships in place. Carriers
gone.

INT. BRIDGE OF YAMAMOTO'S CARRIER - DAY

Yamamoto is handed this message.

YAMAMOTO
We have achieved surprise, but their
carriers are not in port. I don't like
this.

GENDA
We have a fighter screen up, in case we
are attacked, Admiral.

YAMAMOTO
We must go ahead. This is our moment.

INT. ADMIRAL KIMMEL'S HOME - DAY

The Admiral, dressed in his golf clothes, is leaving his home
when a naval LIEUTENANT appears at his door.

LIEUTENANT
Admiral, one of our destroyers reports
sinking a sub on its way into Pearl.

ADMIRAL KIMMEL
Relay that to Washington...and cancel my
golf game.

INT. ADMIRAL KIMMEL'S OFFICE - OAHU - DAY

Kimmel enters his office, and is handed the latest
dispatches.

ADMIRAL KIMMEL
Any response from Washington?

KIMMEL'S AIDE
Nothing, Sir.

EXT. WESTERN UNION OFFICE - PEARL HARBOR - DAY

A telegram, addressed to Admiral Kimmel, lands in the
regular, not urgent, dispatch box. The messenger handles it
promptly, hopping on his motorbike to deliver it.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE THE PACIFIC - DAY

The Japanese planes increase throttle and nose down, diving
toward the surface, hurtling into attack mode.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The harbor lies quiet. It's a sleepy Sunday morning.
Children are playing, officers are stepping from their houses
in their shorts to get the morning paper...

EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE - OAHU - DAY

Hawaiian Boy Scouts are hiking on a side of one of the
mountains overlooking Pearl.

Suddenly booming over the mountain, barely ten feet above the
summit, comes a stream of planes.

The boys are awed. What is this?

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

QUICK INTERCUTS - Between the approach of the Japanese
planes, and sleepy Pearl Harbor...

-- The planes, in formation, their propellers spinning, their
engines throbbing...

-- Pearl Harbor, with the ships silent, their engines cold,
their anchors steady on the harbor bottom.

-- The Japanese submarines heading in.

-- The American destroyers docking, instead of going out to
search for them.

-- Another formation of Japanese bombers climbing high, into
attack position.

-- The Japanese torpedo planes dropping down to the level of
the ocean, their engines beginning to scream.

-- The American planes bunched on the airfields.

-- ON THE JAPANESE CARRIERS, Yamamoto and his staff huddle
tensely, over their battle maps.

ON THE JAPANESE CARRIER DECKS, the second wave of planes is
being brought up and loaded with munitions...the Japanese
flag snaps tautly in the wind...

ON THE GOLD COURSE NEAR PEARL HARBOR, American officers are
laughing on the putting green near the club house, where the
American flag droops from the flag pole, limply at peace.

-- The Japanese planes roaring down just over the wave tops
of Pearl Harbor itself.

-- Children playing in the early morning sun, looking up as
they see the planes flash by. The children look --
they've never seen this many, flying this low...but they
are not alarmed, only curious.

The images come faster and faster, the collision of Japan's
determination and American's innocence...

EXT. DECK OF OKLAHOMA - DAY

Two sailors are standing on the deck, sharing a smoke,
looking out over the quiet harbor. One of them sees the
first few planes streaking in.

SAILOR 1
Look at that.

SAILOR 2
It's the Army again, practicing on us.

Something drops from the lead plane and splashes easily into
the water; the plane banks away.

SAILOR 2
Practice torpedoes.

A white streak runs through the water at them.

SAILOR 2
Now listen, you'll hear a little thud
when it hits the side of the ship.

They watch it rush at them...then, a MASSIVE EXPLOSION! It
throws up a fifty foot wall of water, hurling the sailors and
everything else on the deck into the sea.

EXT. THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR - DAY

-- The first wave of planes drop more torpedoes; they plunge
BENEATH THE SURFACE, their wooden fins working perfectly,
the torpedoes speeding to their targets...

We see their AWESOME BLASTS against the anchored ships as the
torpedoes hit home.

-- The Japanese LOW ALTITUDE BOMBERS come in; some drop their
bombs directly into the ships; some skip their bombs
across the water, the bombs glancing off the surface and
then slamming the sides of battleships with tremendous
explosions.

-- INSIDE THE SHIPS, sleeping sailors are thrown from their
bunks; those already awakened run for their battle
stations, and try to make it up to the deck; but there's
no escape there, as...

-- Zero fighter planes strafe the ships, raking the decks and
killing sailors with MACHINE GUN FIRE.

EXT. ON THE AMERICAN SHIPS - DAY

Fire and smoke are turning everything into chaos. some
sailors rush to man the guns, they find the ammo boxes
locked.

Under the bombing and strafing, they find a wrench and start
pounding on the lock, trying to break open the ammo box.
Then they break open the lock -- and find the ammo box empty.

SAILOR
Shit! I'll get some ammo!

He runs for the ladders, and is shot down before he gets
there.

EXT. SKIES OVER PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The dive bombers scream in.

EXT. DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Bombs are hitting the deck. Sailors are blown into the air
and out into the oily water. Nearby ships are catching fire;
the flames spread out onto the oily water itself.

INT. BELOW DECKS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie Miller, the boxing champion/kitchen helper, is working
picking up the breakfast trays when he feels the ship
shudder. The intercom comes alive --

INTERCOM
Battle stations! Battle stations! This
is not a drill!

Men run to the ladders, and the shaking of the ship from a
bomb blast tosses them off; Dorie's at the foot of the ladder
when men fall back on top of him.

EXT. BRIDGE OF WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

The Captain of the ship has reached the command bridge, where
most of his staff is lying wounded from a bomb blast.

CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
Stay calm! Find your positions. Medics,
get the wounded to sick bay! Load and --

MORE TORPEDOES and BOMBS blast into the ship. A big chunk of
shrapnel tears into the Captain and rips his stomach open.
The medics he was just directing to other men now run to him,
as the men they were going to help have been blown apart.

EXT. DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Sailors run up from below and are gunned down and blasted
down before they can reach their weapons.

Dorie Miller emerges from below decks and sees the carnage,
the confusion. A bloody OFFICER grabs him.

BLOODY OFFICER
Boy! We need stretcher bearers on the
bridge!

Dorie runs into the fire and smoke, toward the bridge.

EXT. BRIDGE OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie arrives to see the medics crouched over the
disemboweled Captain, who is still giving orders.

CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
Radio for air cover. Organize the other
medics. Initiate fire control.

Dorie helps the medic lift the Captain to take him below.

INT. BELOW DECKS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie carries the Captain down the ladder by himself, using
one arm to climb and one to hold the Captain like a child's
teddy bear. When they reach the bottom the pain has grown
too much for the Captain; he know's he's dying.

CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
Put me down here.

Dorie puts him down; the medic jumps down the ladder and
reaches the Captain, who tells him --

CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
Find my executive officer and tell him
he's in command. Tell him to fire the
boilers and...

He trembles in death throes...

CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
Make sure the gunners have enough
ammuni --

He's dead. The Medic runs toward the ladder, reaches the
hatch, and is blasted back to the bottom by an explosion
overhead.

Dorie runs for the ladder, and climbs out into hell.

EXT. DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie emerges into even greater carnage and confusion. A
sailor, his body on fire, runs past and leaps into the oily
water -- but it is in flames too.

Then Dorie sees it: an unmanned anti-aircraft gun. He runs
to it, through the strafing.

The gun already has a belt of ammo in it -- apparently loaded
by the gunner who lies beside it with his chest shot open.
Dorie swings the business end of the gun toward the Zeros
coming in out of the smoke, and he begins to fire.

The Zeros keep coming and he keeps firing; nothing on earth
will knock him from that gun.

INT. NURSES' BARRACKS - DAY

Evelyn is up, dressed; her roommates are just stirring.

EXT. NURSES' QUARTERS - OAHU - DAY

Evelyn has stepped to the door when she hears a distant
rumble and looks across the harbor to see smoke rising, ships
taking hits.

EVELYN
Oh my God... EVERYBODY TO THE HOSPITAL!

As she runs, Japanese planes are coming toward the base.

EXT. THE MESS HALL AT HICKAM FIELD - DAY

The men were sitting down to breakfast, but the machine gun
bullets tearing up the outer walls have them clogging the
doors, and it's so clogged they can't all get out.

A steel bomb crashes through the roof and slams through the
room, taking out tables and chairs before bouncing off the
wall and coming to a stop.

TWO SOLDIERS, trapped within the mess hall, see it stop
without detonating. They are bug-eyed, hearts stopped.

MESS HALL SOLDIER
Dud.

The bomb detonated, blowing everything to bloody dust.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY

Evelyn reaches the hospital first and runs to the cabinet,
withdrawing supplies.

Barbara and Sandra appear at the far door, both terrified.

EVELYN
Get everything out! Bandages, sutures --
oh God, the men in traction... Come with
me!

She races into the hallway, the other two following.

INT. HOSPITAL - TRACTION WARD - DAY

Four men from a jeep accident are lying in traction, their
casted limbs roped in the air. Evelyn runs in, grabbing a
razor blade from the medical cabinet -- and telling Barbara
and Sandra.

EVELYN
Cut them down, and take cover!! Hurry!

Bombs are falling outside, on the airfield this wing of the
hospital faces. Evelyn slices the traction ropes of a man
with both legs broken; ignoring his groans, she rolls him out
of the bed and covers him with the mattress. The other
nurses follow her lead. The bombs are coming toward the
hospital ward; Evelyn finishes with the fourth man and covers
him and herself with the mattress, just as a bomb craters
outside the window.

The nurses and patients look up after the explosions have
passed; there's a chunk of smoking shrapnel lying on the
springs of the bunk where the last man had been lying.

EXT. HICKAM FIELD - DAY

The Japanese low-altitude bombers, with Zero escorts, zoom in
over the field, blasting the clusters of American warplanes,
whole squadrons taken out with one bomb.

The mechanics and pilots, caught in the open, run from the
strafing. The Zeros rake them down with machine gun fire.
It's carnage.

EXT. PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY

Sammy, the amateur photographer, is leaving his house for a
morning of working his "Pictures of Paradise" business, when
he sees the Japanese formations rumbling toward Pearl. He
races back inside.

INT. PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY

He fishes into his drawer for a film camera, and digs out
cans of film, struggling to load it as he runs back out.

INT. HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY

The pilots of Danny's squadron have returned from their night
of drinking and brawling and are crashed on their bunks. Red
stirs and staggers toward the head; he bumps into the wall,
backs up like a wind-up toy and lurches blindly forward
again, into --

INT. BARRACKS - THE HEAD - DAY

Red sleepwalks to the urinals and unleashes a marathon piss
stream, still in his sleep. A rumble penetrates his brain,
and his eyes come open a fraction. Through the window slits
above the urinals, he can see a cloud of Japanese planes
rushing past.

He squeezes his eyes shut, and looks again; the planes start
bombing the distant hangers.

Red pisses along the wall as he races to the barracks, trying
to get his pecker back into his drawers. He shouts to the
sleeping guys --

RED
Th-th-th-th-th-

He slaps his face with both hands, and stomps his feet...

RED
Th-th-th-th-Dammit! Th-th-th-

He still can't get it out, can't wake them; bursting with
frustration, he suddenly blasts out singing --

RED
(singing)
The Jaaaps!! The Jaaaps!!

He's belting it like a baritone in a bizarre opera. His
friends stir; what the hell? Red points outside and tries to
talk, but now he can't mutter a syllable. The guys hear the
explosions, and realize...

EXT. HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY

The pilots stagger out, half drunk, half dressed. Seeing
what's happening, they race toward the flight line, where the
clustered American planes are blowing up in groups, and the
pilots are knocked to the ground.

BILLY
Goddamn Japs!

Billy jumps to his feet and starts to run toward a cluster of
fighters that hasn't gone up yet.

ANTHONY
Billy!

Anthony tries to grab him and drag him back to earth but he
misses; Billy gets a few steps before the fire from a
strafing Zero catches up to him; his friends watch in horror
as Billy gets shorter as he runs; the Zero's machine gun fire
is sawing his legs off from the feet up.

Billy falls, legless but still alive; then a bomb falls
almost on top of him, sending body parts over the pilots.

Their innocence, like America's, is gone in that moment.

EXT. ROAD TO MAIN AIRFIELD - DAY

Danny and Rafe are in Danny's Buick, hung over and asleep,
Danny in front, Rafe in back, and they're a miserable sight
-- their shirts ripped, blood dried in a leak trail from one
side of Rafe's nose and the corner of Danny's mouth.

The rumble of planes moving overhead makes them stir; the
rumble grows huge, as the shadows of a massive formation
makes the sunlight flicker. Danny and Rafe squint up, their
heads pounding, and realize what they're seeing. Suddenly
their headaches are gone, and Danny's gunning the Buick down
the road, toward the base.

EXT. AIR BASE - DAY

Danny blasts through the main gate; the guards are too busy
taking cover and haven't even closed the barrier.

He races to the tarmac, where some of the planes are still
undamaged. Rafe is out the door before the car stops
rolling, and Danny's right behind him.

They're running toward a cluster of fighters, when it goes up
with a bomb blast. Rafe and Danny dive at each other; their
first instinct is to cover their best friend with their own
bodies.

They look at each other on the ground. They see machine gun
bullets thudding into the planes on the flight line, and
ripping along the walls of the buildings. It's as if the
whole Japanese airforce is attacking this one base, and not
leaving a single plane airworthy.

RAFE
Get me into a plane!

DANNY
Come on!

Danny sprints; Rafe follows. Danny reaches a phone booth,
and digs a dime from his pants.

RAFE
You're making a phone call?!

Danny dials, as waves of bullets sweep the area, and more
planes blow up on the flight line. Rafe thinks he's lost his
mind.

DANNY
(into phone)
This is Walker! We're under attack! Get
those planes fueled and armed RIGHT NOW!

He runs back toward the car; Rafe, in the nonsense of battle,
reaches in to hang up the receiver, before Danny grabs him
and leads him on a sprint to the car, as the phone booth
shatters behind them from the strafing.

On the way to the car they dive back to the ground to avoid
strafing -- and see their friends lying nearby, in shock.

ANTHONY
They got Billy.

DANNY
Come with us!

He and Rafe jump up and run again. Anthony, Red, and several
other pilots reach the Buick and dive in. Danny drives away,
through the strafing.

RAFE
Where are we going?

DANNY
Auxiliary field at Haleiwa, ten miles
north of here.

RAFE
What's there?

DANNY
Six P-40's.

As the Zero pilots see the Buick moving, they go after it.
Danny drives like a madman through the strafing, zigzagging
and gunning the Buick's V-8.

EXT. THE OKLAHOMA - STILL AT ANCHOR - DAY

The number of attacking planes seems endless -- and their
strategy flawless. Torpedoes hitting one ship lifts its hull
with a blast, enabling the next wave of torpedoes to rush
under and hit the next ship anchored behind. The American
battleships are bobbing like see-saws.

The OKLAHOMA takes an entire barrage of torpedoes, blowing
thirty foot holes along it's hull; the ship immediately
begins to list.

INT. THE OKLAHOMA - DAY

Doors are wedged shut by the deformation of the structure;
vertical ladders are becoming horizontal, and water is
pouring in. Men fight their way up against the water.

INT. INNER COMPARTMENT OF THE OKLAHOMA - DAY

Water is up to the trapped sailor's waists when they grab a
wrench and start taking turns pounding S.O.S. in Morse code
on the bulkhead.

EXT. DECK OF OKLAHOMA - DAY

As the listing grows more severe, sailors start jumping from
the deck into the water. Still the Marines on deck are
firing back at the planes; some Marines are even using
handguns. But courage does not save them...

THE OKLAHOMA ROLLS OVER

The men still on its deck try to run, but it's not just the
fires and the water they can't escape; the gun turrets' 1400
pound shells break loose with the capsizing of the ship and
tumble through everything like massive wrecking balls.

The sailors and marines, thrown into the water, struggle to
get away from the suction as the giant battleship turns
turtle.

BELOW THE WATER men are sucked down with amazing force, every
hair on their heads streaming behind them as they're snatched
to the depths.

INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA, everyone and everything is spilling
upside down. The ship's generators sputter out and the
lights go out. The flashlights of the few sailors who can
find them cut raggedly through the darkness, and water spills
in. There is no escape.

BELOW THE WATER, the Oklahoma's superstructure hits bottom;
some men are crushed there. For others it's salvation, as
the BACKWASH blows them toward the surface.

ON THE SURFACE the men are launched almost completely out of
the water, before splashing back into the water and burning
oil. A few feet of the steel hull and a portion of the
propeller protrude above the surface, but most of the
Oklahoma is under water.

Men in the water swim toward a medical launch carrying
wounded away from the wreckage. A bomb hits the launch and
blows body parts everywhere.

INT. OKLAHOMA - REAR COMPARTMENT

In one compartment there are a dozen trapped men. They've
survived the roll-over, and are in a chaotic world where the
floor is now the ceiling. The water is up their waists.
Some of the SAILORS are panicking.

One sailor has a flashlight and switches it on, flashing the
light from face to face.

SAILOR WITH THE FLASHLIGHT
Don't panic! Don't panic!

PANICKED SAILOR
The water's rising! It's coming up,
we're all gonna drown!

SAILOR WITH THE FLASHLIGHT
The air pressure will equalize it!

But the water keeps rising, along with their fears. Several
of the sailors are still screaming...

The water's already to their bellies. One of them grabs a
wrench and starts slamming Morse code against the bulkhead.

One sailor in the middle of the room is particularly
panicked, not just yelling but crying and whimpering --

TERRIFIED SAILOR
Get me out! Get me out!

SAILOR WITH THE FLASHLIGHT
Stop it! Come on! Save your air!

TERRIFIED SAILOR
MY FOOT'S CAUGHT!

He's at the lower end of the compartment, where the water is
deeper -- the ship's nose is lower than her stern. The
water's up to the guy's neck.

The man with the flashlight dives down, and finds the guys
foot wedged together in the pipes of the ships ceiling -- now
their floor.

He pops up again. The water's up to the trapped guy's mouth;
he's already gagging.

SAILOR WITH THE FLASHLIGHT
Is there a hacksaw in that locker?!

They open it; tools spill out -- among them is a hacksaw.
They hand it to him; the sailor dives down and cuts off the
guy's foot.

The trapped man is underwater, muffling his scream. He comes
free, and surfaces gasping. His severed foot floats to the
surface and then the horror really hits them. The sailor
with the flashlight pops up, in the blossoming of blood. He
and another sailor tie a tourniquet around the stump, to stop
the bleeding.

The drama of this has caused the other trapped men to stop
their signaling. Now they start banging, twice as loudly as
before.

EXT. HALEIWA - AUXILIARY AIRFIELD - DAY

Haleiwa is a tiny airfield, tucked among the green volcanic
hills; its barely paved, and it's only permanent building is
a quonset hut. A mechanic named EARL, is out with the
P-40's; and these are spread out, not bunched.

EARL AND THE P-40'S

The planes here have received loving care from Earl -- which
means lots of cursing; as he's wrestling to load an ammo
belt, he yells.

EARL
Sum-bitch!

The Buick, bullet holes punched through the truck, slides to
a stop near the planes, and the pilots jump out.

DANNY
They ready, Earl?

EARL
They'll all fly, but -- oh, shit...

What stops him is the cloud of Zeros and dive bombers,
shrieking in.

DANNY
Cover!

The guys scatter. There are sandbags around the hut, and
they run there, diving into it's shelter just before the
first strafing pass, when a Zero strafes one of the P-40's
and a dive bomber blasts another. Earl stands up in shock
and fury.

EARL
You absolute mother-fuckin' son of a
bitch! You shot one of my planes!

Danny pulls him down, as the Zeros roar overhead.

DANNY
This ain't a little feud, Earl, it's
World War Two!

RAFE
They're coming around for another pass.
You got extra weapons and ammo?

EARL
Cock-suckin' right I do!! In the gun
lockers!

DANNY
You guys get those! Earl, Rafe, come
with me!

Danny, Rafe and Earl run to the planes that got hit and strip
out the 20mm cannons and ammo.

INT. QUONSET HUT - DAY

The other pilots run in, throw open the gun locker, and start
grabbing weapons -- aircraft machine guns, ammo belts, one
even grabs a rifle.

SANDBAGS BY THE SHED

The two groups run back and start to set up.

RAFE
Danny, over there! We're in a canyon,
they'll come straight down it, we'll get
'em in a crossfire.

Danny, Rafe and Earl run to a gully opposite the shed and set
up there, as the other pilots brace the machine guns against
the sandbags.

The Japanese planes attacks again. This time the lead plane
hits a wall of steel fired from the combined guns; the
bullets chew into the bomb it carries and the plane EXPLODES.
The airborne debris makes the following planes shear off.

Red's standing, firing; he yells at the Zeros --

RED
D-don't like it when we fight back, do
ya!

Red runs out with his machine gun and keeps firing even when
the planes have passed, trying to shoot them right up the
ass.

DANNY
Earl! You said the planes were ready
but -- but what?

EARL
Of the four left, only one is full of
fuel.

RAFE
Will the others get into the air?

Earl shoots a look to Rafe, then turns to Danny.

EARL
Danny, I don't like this fuckin' guy.

DANNY
Anthony, Red, stay with the guns! Coma,
you cover the cannons! Joe, Theo, come
with us! Earl, you get on the radio!
We're gonna fight these fuckers.

Two of the pilots, Joe and Theo, run to Danny.

JOE
How do we do it?

DANNY
Your call, Rafe.

RAFE
Get rolling as fast as you can. Stay
low! We'll use the topography to
separate them and then we can take 'em
one on one.

They race toward the planes, and the Japanese attack again.
Seeing the pilots running for the P-40's, the Zeros aim for
them; Rafe and Danny race for the most distant of the planes;
Joe and Theo run for the closer planes, through the dusty
bullet hits.

Theo makes his plane and is just strapping himself in when
bullets stitch his fuselage, wounding him. He still forces
the plane forward. He taxis twenty feet and his cockpit gets
chopped up and the plane arches into a right turn and putters
to a stop, Theo dead at the controls.

Joe doesn't bother to strap in; he hits the throttle hard and
heads down the runway...

The Zeros are on him as he gets ten feet of air at 120 M.P.H.
The Zero's bullets eat his canopy and plane skin; the plane
breaks apart in mid air, spilling in gouts of flame as it
smashes down on the tarmac.

Rafe and Danny have reaches the more distant P-40's and are
revving their engines as they see Joe and Theo's fate. They
throw on their radio headsets.

Their way seems blocked: they've got no runway behind them,
the wreckage of four P-40's scattered ahead of them, and the
Zeros screaming over the low hills to attack them. Now Rafe
and Danny talk through the radio.

DANNY
It's tight.

RAFE
Tighter 'n a bulls ass in fly season.
Don't hit the barn.

They gun their engines and roll through the grass on either
side of the runway, dodging the burning planes; they lift
off, clearing the quonset hut by a couple of inches. They
blow right through the strafing fire, and into the sky.

Eight Zeros are all over them.

Earl is in the hut, on the radio and watching through
binoculars.

EARL
I see six...seven...eight of the
cocksuckers! Don't let 'em hurt my
planes.

Danny's swiveling in his seat, looking left, right, back.

DANNY
They're all over us!

RAFE
Bet they don't dust crops in Japan.

Danny understands immediately, following Rafe's tactic as he
breaks into a sharp turn and uses the hut, palm trees, and
low hills to shake the Japs. They fly like crop dusters,
skimming down a foot from the ground, then bobbing up,
banking left and right. The Zeros have divided into two
groups to chase them, their wings clipping tree tops as they
try to follow the Americans.

It feels like a 200 M.P.H. car chase, 20 feet off the ground,
Rafe and Danny skimming and bobbing over the terrain, but
there are too many Japanese.

RAFE
Danny! Let's play some chicken!

Danny banks in one direction, Rafe in another...

EXT. OVER THE LANDING STRIP - DAY

The two P-40's are screaming, rushing at each other like they
did at the training base back in the states, flying right
into each other's propellers; the Japanese heading after them
realize they're rushing headlong at the other group...

EARL
Oh shit, oh shit...

He can't even watch.

At the last instant Rafe and Danny snap a quarter spin so the
planes flash by belly to belly.

Two of the Zeros collide in mid-air, exploding, as the other
Zeros scatter.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE PEARL HARBOR - DAY

Danny and Rafe rejoin each other in the open sky; they've
lost the Zeros. The P-40's are flying smoothly, side by
side. The two pilots look across at each other, going into
battle together. They speak through their radios.

RAFE
You hear my okay?

DANNY
Yeah. So you can call me if you need
help.

RAFE
I got a half a tank. You?

DANNY
Little less.

He fires a short burst to see if his guns work; they do.
Rafe does the same. Up ahead they see a formation of
Japanese planes, headed toward Pearl.

RAFE
They're in strafing formation, we'll blow
right through their line.

They look across at each other.

RAFE
Land of the free.

DANNY
Home of the brave.

Side by side the P-40's scream in.

EXT. ABOVE OAHU - THE DOGFIGHT - DAY

The Japanese planes are in tight, disciplined formation,
their minds on the targets below them in the harbor. But
their day of shooting sitting ducks changes as the two P-40's
blast in, wing guns blazing, chopping into Two Zeros. Both
Zeros falter and begin to lose altitude. The P-40's make
almost impossible tight turns, still side-by-side, and go
after the two plane they crippled on the first pass.

Rafe finishes one Zero, making it explode in a ball of flame
in the air. Danny finishes the other, shooting off its wing
so that it spirals into the sea and crashes there.

The P-40's swoop up again.

RAFE
They're trying to hold formation. We can
chew 'em up!

The P-40's dig in again, swooping down on the line of Zeros.
Rafe hits first, machine gunning one plane, and Danny comes
in behind it, finishing it off.

The Japanese pilots are screaming at each other over their
radios, but their SQUADRON COMMANDER sees Pearl Harbor ahead,
and tells them --

JAPANESE SQUADRON COMMANDER
Hold the line!

The P-40's come through again, their guns spitting fire.

EXT. ANOTHER JAPANESE FORMATION OF BOMBERS - DAY

These planes are different -- high altitude bombers with
three-man crews, high above the harbor. The bombardier looks
through his sight and the bomb bays open.

THROUGH THE BOMBARDIER'S SIGHT, the ships look like tops, far
below. The bombardier is ticking off the targets as they
pass, the first two he mentions already burning.

JAPANESE BOMBARDIER
West Virginia... Oklahoma... Ah, Arizona.

He flips his bomb switch, and a HUGE STEEL BOMB falls away.

EXT. THE FLIGHT OF THE BOMB - DAY

We stay with the bomb as it falls through the sky. The small
propeller on the bomb's nose spins in the air, running the
arming mechanism into the bomb's explosive core. The bomb
wobbles a bit at first, but then as it gathers speed its fins
stabilize it, and it falls faster and faster, at a dizzying
rate, toward the Arizona.

It slams through the teak wood deck, and breaks it like
matchsticks.

It's tremendous weight and speed carry it through the next
deck, and the next, deep into the heart of the ship...toward
the powder room, where two million pounds of black powder are
waiting.

The bomb hits there, and the explosion is almost beyond
comprehension. Over 1400 men die instantly.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The battleship Arizona leaps into the air, the ship's spine
is broken, it's guts ripped open in one explosive instant.
Men on the deck are thrown into the burning oil already
floating on the water from the other ruptured ships, but
there are almost no survivors.

The concussion of the explosion blows men off the repair ship
Vestal, next to the Arizona, saving Vestal, as the explosion
snuffs out the fires on Vestal; it also sends tons of debris
down on her decks -- parts of the ship, legs, arms and heads
of men, all sorts of bodies.

Debris from the Arizona also cover the Tennessee and does
more damage than the two Japanese bombs that hit her.

INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - DAY

Medics have already started bringing in the wounded. Evelyn
is like a frantic traffic cop.

EVELYN
Put criticals in ward one, stables in
two! Barbara! Fill every syringe you
can find with stimulant and antibiotic --

MEDIC
Where are the doctors?

EVELYN
On the third tee.

SANDRA
Evelyn! Where's the morphine?

THE FRONT WARD

Evelyn runs in, snaps open the cabinet, grabs a bag of
morphine sticks, and is about to run out again when she sees
the Arizona go up.

For a moment she's frozen, then she actually sees the shock
wave traveling across the bay and through the trees like an
invisible wall. She's trying to cross her arms over her
face, and dive to the floor, just as the windows blow out
from the concussion, and glass flies over everything.

INT. JAPANESE BOMBER - DAY

They see the results of their bomb, and are ecstatic.

EXT. AIR ABOVE OAHU - DAY

The nose of Danny's plane is pointed right at the harbor and
he sees the sudden devastation of the Arizona. It is a sight
so awesome it freezes him for a moment.

A Zero comes up behind him, firing. Danny jerks his stick to
maneuver but he's caught...

Rafe comes in behind the Zero, chopping it up, even as he
yells at Danny over the radio --

RAFE
Ain't no time for spectatin'!

They turn back after the line of Zeros. There are some
Japanese planes coming after them now, but the P-40's head at
their noses, firing, then duck past in a double maneuver, and
turn right back into the Japanese formation.

Rafe has a plane in his sights, but his guns fire only a
short burst before stopping.

RAFE
I'm out of ammo!

DANNY
I'm out of fuel!

They head back. A single Zero is on their way. Rafe charges
it and draws its fire; Danny comes in behind the Zero and
rakes its cockpit; the Japanese pilot backs off.

The P-40's dive back toward Haleiwa.

A handful of Zeros returning from Pearl see them and follow.

EXT. PACIFIC - JAPANESE CARRIERS - DAY

The second wave of planes takes off from the carriers.

INT. FLIGHT CONTROL CENTER - CARRIER AKAGI - DAY

Genda reports to Yamamoto.

GENDA
Second attack wave is in the air.

INT. RADIO STATION KGBM - DAY

The DISC JOCKEY, handed a message by the army officer, stops
playing the soothing Hawaiian music and announces...

DISC JOCKEY
All Army, Navy, and Marine personnel to
report to duty.

INT. GENERAL SHORT'S OFFICE - DAY

General SHORT is in his office; he and his aides are working
frantically.

GENERAL SHORT
Mobilize everything! We're at war! Send
a message to Washington: Hostilities
with Japan commenced with an air raid on
Pearl Harbor.

INT. WHITE HOUSE - OVAL ROOM - DAY

President Roosevelt is having lunch in the Oval Room study
with Harry Hopkins. The phone RINGS and Hopkins answers.

HOPKINS
Oval Room... Yes, he is.
(to Roosevelt)
It's Knox, Mr. President.

ROOSEVELT
(taking phone)
Yes?

He listens, then puts the receiver down, shaken.

ROOSEVELT
The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor.

HOPKINS
My God. Do we have damage estimates?

ROOSEVELT
Our Pacific Fleet, at anchor, unprepared?
It's terrible. It has to be. And it's
not over.

EXT. HALEIWA - AUXILIARY AIRFIELD - DAY

The two P-40's drop out of the sky and bounce to a landing;
Anthony and Red have been pushing the wreckage off the field
with the Buick. Danny and Rafe pull the P-40's behind the
burning quonset hut, and it's like a pit stop at a race
track; Earl rushes up and starts fueling the planes, their
engines still running.

DANNY
We need ammo too!

Earl shouts instructions to the pilots.

EARL
Strip it from the wrecks!

The other pilots race to the wrecked P-40's and start pulling
out ammo belts. Earl glares at the smoking engine of Danny's
plane, and the bullet holes.

EARL
Who the fuck taught you to fly?

DANNY
He did.

Earl looks at Rafe's plane, more shot-up and abused than
Danny's. Rafe grins and waves to him. Earl mumbles a stream
of guttural and unintelligible obscenities.

The Zeros that followed them sweep down, strafing. One
mechanic, running across the field with a belt of ammo, goes
down. Coma, running behind him, picks up the fallen man's
ammo and his own, bringing both to the planes behind the hut.
He, Red, and Anthony reload the machine guns in Rafe and
Danny's planes.

Rafe and Danny gun their engines and head back into the air,
the grounded pilots firing a covering barrage and Earl even
coming up with a 12-gauge shotgun to fire at the Zeros as
they rush past.

EXT. SKIES OVER PACIFIC - DAY

The Second Wave of Japanese planes is in tight formation.

INT. LEAD PLANE OF SECOND WAVE - DAY

Lt. Commander SHIMAZAKI, leader of the second attack wave,
says calmly into his radio...

SHIMAZAKI
Second wave, deploy over the military
bases. High level bombers to the air
stations, dive bombers attack ships in
harbor. Fighters strafe and cover.

He leads the second wave in on their attack run...

EXT. NAVAL AIR STATION - DAY

The navy's planes, bunched up on the naval airfield, are
destroyed without ever getting into the air.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The harbor is already a mass of destruction and panic;
screaming everywhere, men trying to fight fires, move the
wounded; the second wave of planes hits, and tremendous
explosions now rock the secondary ships like the destroyer
SHAW, blasting it apart.

But the Japanese pilots are now having trouble with the thick
black smoke coming out of the damaged ships, and off the oil
fires along the water. One torpedo plane, its pilot flying
blind, clips the superstructure of a battleship and spins to
a crash.

Still, even IN THE CHAOS ON THE SHIPS, the sailors struggle
to survive, inventively. Men trapped on one burning ship use
the severed barrel of a five-inch naval gun as a bridge to
cross to the less damaged ship anchored beside them.

Others jump into the water and swim through the burning oil,
towing buddies too wounded to swim themselves.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

Below decks, sailors have organized a line and are passing
ammunition from the ammo lockers, hand to hand up to the guns
on deck. Blasts from bombs hit them and ignite the ammo
they're holding, setting off a chain reaction of explosions.

On the deck, the sailors are out of ammo. An OFFICER grabs a
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SAILOR.

OFFICER
Grab a dinghy and get ammo from the base
ammo storeroom.

The young sailor jumps to a dinghy and launches it through
the oily waters and thick black smoke.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The sailors in the boat get strafed, the rounds cutting
between them and blasting their boat in two. They jump into
the oily water and swim toward shore.

Other sailors are in the water with them, struggling,
swallowing the vile black liquid as they battle to swim.
Errant bombs and shrapnel hit beside them, killing some;
other lose strength and slide beneath the surface.

The sailors from the ammo boat make it ashore; it's hot there
too, with bullets and bombs all around. One sailor has to
stop and puke from the oil; his buddy grabs him and they run
for cover; they find it in the dugout of the baseball
diamond.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

A MARINE GUNNERY SERGEANT leads men in a race through
strafing fire to the bases ammo storeroom.

INT. AMMO STOREROOM - DAY

The SUPPLY SERGEANT is at his post.

GUNNERY SERGEANT
We need weapons and ammo!

SUPPLY SERGEANT
You need authorization.

GUNNERY SERGEANT
The fuck I do!

He pushes the man out of the way and starts grabbing weapons.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

The gunnery sergeant and his marines run with a water-cooled
machine gun, across the open ground, under fire.

BARRACKS

The Marines set up in the windows of their already-strafed
barracks, and start firing there, as the Zeros scream past.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

Trucks are moving dependents -- women and children -- from
the dependents' housing area. The Japanese strafe the
trucks, dependents diving for cover.

NAVAL STATION

A fire engine from the Honolulu Fire Department races up to
the sight of buildings burning from the air attack. As the
firemen jump out, a Zero strafes them, gunning down the
firemen.

As the strafing Zero starts to bank away, two P-40's come in
behind it, both of them gunning away. The Zero comes apart
under the barrage, and crashes in a ball of flame.

It's Rafe and Danny, back in the air.

INT. MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - DAY

The once-pristine hospital with its glowing white beds is now
a bloody chaos. Every bed is already full; there are burned
and broken people on the floor -- soldiers, sailors,
civilians, firemen, all mixed in together. People are dying
everywhere, and screaming in pain, or moaning and begging for
help. At first we don't see Evelyn, and wonder if she
survived the glass; then we see her, flecks of her own blood
dotting her face and arms. The blood of soldiers on her
surgical apron. A steel calm has replaced her earlier
frenzy, even as the other nurses are breaking down.

SANDRA
I can't tell who's gotten morphine and
who hasn't!

EVELYN
Take a grease pencil and mark an M on the
forehead of everyone you stick.

A young doctor is trying to give an intravenous injection to
a man who's badly charred; the doctors hands are shaking.

EVELYN
Don't look for a vein, just poke.

SANDRA
My pen's dry!

EVELYN
Use lipstick. Use ammo belts for
tourniquets, use your own nylons if you
have to! Barbara! Grab anything that
will hold a pint of blood and sterilize
it.

The doctors are amputating limbs right there in the hallway.
A SENIOR DOCTOR calls --

SENIOR DOCTOR
Evelyn! You have to do the triage!
They're bringing them in with trucks!

Evelyn moves to the door. Trucks are pulling up, loaded with
the wounded, young terrified soldiers bringing them inside;
Evelyn does quick triage as they pass.

EVELYN
Critical -- front ward!... Give him
morphine, he can't wait...

The next body through is a pilot, wings on his uniform, his
chest riddled with bullets -- and his face shot off. For a
moment Evelyn falters, then she forces herself to check the
dog tags...

It isn't Rafe or Danny. Evelyn sags in guilty relief.

EVELYN
Take him outside and cover him; he's
dead.

She steadies herself as the next body comes through, a woman
on a stretcher, her stomach shot open, pale hands clutching
at the open wound. Evelyn feels for a pulse.

EVELYN
She's gone too, take her --

It's Betty.

And though the bombs are blasting and guns booming
everywhere, the world goes silent for Evelyn.

One of the sailors outside the door is pointing to the
harbor, the Nevada has begun to move.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The battleship NEVADA is underway, plowing through the
harbor, as the water erupts with bombs.

INT. THE NEVADA'S BRIDGE - DAY

The Captain is struggling to save his ship.

CAPTAIN OF THE NEVADA
We can save her if we make the open sea!

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - POV THE ATTACKING PLANES - DAY

The lead pilot in the next squad of Japanese planes spots the
moving battleship, and leads his squadron on it.

They come whipping in over the waves, dropping torpedoes and
bombs.

INT. THE NEVADA'S BRIDGE - DAY

The Nevada's Captain feels the ship shudder as it takes hits
amidships.

CAPTAIN OF THE NEVADA
We're not gonna make it -- and if we go
down here we block the channel... Beach
her, there!

His officers relay the order to the helm, and the ship's
rudder turns as more blasts rip her hull.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The Nevada swings off its course and runs aground.

INT. THE NEVADA'S DYNAMO ROOM - DAY

The impact jolts the boilers, already bursting with the steam
pressure; gouts of steam from rupturing pipes scalds and
blinds the engine room crew.

EXT. THE NEVADA - DAY

The Nevada, run aground at the shoreline, is now like a beast
cut from the herd; the predators swarm after it with
torpedoes and bombs.

One torpedo, missing the Nevada, skims right up the beach
itself and blasts a house on the shore to fragments.

Bombs detonate along the Nevada, engulfing the entire upper
deck in flames, ravaging the sailors.

EXT. HOSPITAL - DAY

The Nevada is grounded near the hospital; from the doorway
Evelyn can see the whole ship on fire, burning sailors
leaping off the decks. Her hearing, her presence of mind,
returns; she lets Betty go, and grabs an ORDERLY.

EVELYN
Go to the base hardware store and get
some of those canister spray things they
use for killing bugs.

ORDERLY
Insecticide?...

EVELYN
No, just the sprayers. We'll fill them
with tannic acid, it'll sterilize them
and cool the burns! GO!

The orderly races away. They can still hear the bombs
falling outside.

A sailor staggers toward the hospital from the Nevada. He is
completely gray. Everyone stares at him, and then realizes
he is nude, burned gray, his skin ash.

Evelyn rushes to help him, shouting back over her shoulder to
the other nurses --

EVELYN
We're gonna need every bed. If they can
breathe, make 'em get up and move
someplace else!

EXT. JAPANESE CARRIER - FLIGHT DECK - DAY

The first wave of planes lands on the carrier. The flight
leader rushes to the bridge.

INT. JAPANESE CARRIER - BRIDGE - DAY

Yamamoto's advisors are exultant.

GENDA
We have achieved complete surprise! The
first wave is returning, the second is
attacking now, and we have lost only a
few planes. We can launch a third wave,
Admiral.

YAMAMOTO
The second wave has not returned. And we
have no idea where their carriers are.
What is the damage report?

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
We have Commander Fuchida on the radio
now, Admiral.

Yamamoto nods and Fuchida's voice comes over the intercom.

FUCHIDA'S VOICE
I am over the harbor now...

EXT. SKIES ABOVE PEARL HARBOR - DAY

Fuchida is in a scout plane, high over Pearl. His vision is
hampered by the thick black smoke, but he can tell there has
been awesome devastation. He uses a diagram of the ships at
anchor to note the damage to each ship.

FUCHIDA
(into radio)
We have a tremendous victory. Many ships
damaged, some totally destroyed. But the
Second Wave's attack is being hindered by
the smoke.

INT. WAR ROOM OF THE AKAGI - DAY

YAMAMOTO
The more we attack, the harder it is to
find targets. And we no longer have
surprise.

GENDA
If we launch the third wave and
annihilate their fuel depots, we destroy
their ability to operate in the Pacific
for at least a year!

YAMAMOTO
And if we fail, and lose our carriers, we
destroy our ability to fight them at all.
(beat)
As soon as the second wave returns, we
will withdraw.

EXT. JAPANESE CARRIER AKAGI - DAY

The last planes touch down, and the lead carrier and the
other ships in the Japanese assault fleet turn back toward
home.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - AFTERMATH - DAY

The harbor is a place of shattered bodies and shattered
ships. Blood, body parts, debris everywhere, and all of it
made more hellish by the oil fires on the water and the
choking black smoke those fires produce.

Every survivor has become an emergency fireman, stretcher
bearer, medic, iron worker. They fish men from the water,
extract them from the tangled wreckage of the ships.
Everyone is screaming and yelling -- the wounded for help,
the helpers for more help.

Local firemen and civilians battle heroically too; the water
mains are ruptured, so they put pump water from the base
swimming pool toward the burning ships.

The PHOTOGRAPHER records this with his black-and-white film
camera. He is shaken, and yet he understands the magnitude
of what he is recording -- the loss of America's innocence.

EXT. ARMY BASE - AFTERMATH - DAY

In one place, outside a barracks, soldiers hit by the bombs
are just becoming conscious. One of them comes to.

CONSCIOUS SOLDIER
Sarge?! Where are you, Sarge?

He's crawling around toward the bushes; his legs are
shattered, but he's spotted a body. He reaches it, turns it
over -- and it's headless.

He turns away in horror...and finds himself staring at the
severed head.

The medics appear.

MEDIC
We've got two more over here!

EXT. GENERAL SHORT'S OFFICE - DAY

The Western Union messenger, Tadao Fuchikami, delivers the
telegram from Washington.

INT. GENERAL SHORT'S OFFICE - DAY

Short and his staff are assessing damage.

SHORT
I want lookouts and sentries everywhere,
with orders to shoot first and ask
questions later.

COLONEL
You think an invasion possible, General?

SHORT
After this morning, we better not
consider anything impossible.

An aide hands Short the telegram. He reads it --

SHORT
From Washington. "Intelligence reports
an ultimatum from Japan to be given
precisely at one p.m. Washington time.
Just what significance the hour set may
have we do not know, but be on alert
accordingly."

The irony is bitter in his throat.

EXT. JAPANESE EMBASSY - OAHU - DAY

The Honolulu police roar up to the embassy in squad cars, and
burst through the doors.

INT. JAPANESE EMBASSY - OAHU - DAY

The police storm through the embassy and find the Japanese
there burning documents.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - AFTERMATH - DAY

Divers are going down, trying to save the trapped men. But
the tangle of the Arizona is horrific. One diver gets
trapped, and another tries to extricate him, and the steel
shifts and falls on them both.

ON THE DECK OF BOMB-SHATTERED BATTLESHIP, a naval CAPTAIN
oversees rescue efforts. The 17-year-old sailor he sent off
for ammo now approaches him, with great concern.

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAILOR
Sir, I...I lost the dinghy.

The captain looks out over the wreckage, great battleships
devastated in every direction.

CAPTAIN
Well, son, we won't worry about the
dinghy today.

EXT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Danny and Rafe arrive at the hospital. Their fears of what
they might find aren't helped when they see the stairs into
the hospital covered in blood.

INT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Rafe and Danny enter. It's a scene from hell. Doctors are
doing amputations in the hallway. The once-pristine hospital
is now all red, with blood dripping through the mattresses,
onto the floor...

In the main ward, Evelyn and the other nurses are using the
fly sprayers to spritz cooling antiseptic on the charred
bodies. Evelyn looks up and sees both Rafe and Danny. Her
eyes register relief, but they are the only part of her that
can show emotion now; the rest of her is covered in blood.
Rafe and Danny move to her.

RAFE
How can we help?

INT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Rafe and Danny sit quietly as Evelyn adjusts the tubes
conducting blood from their arms into sterilized Coke bottles
for transfusion.

RAFE
What else can we do?

EVELYN
There's nothing you can do here, they'll
die or they won't, we just --

She stops, afraid if she says more, she'll lose grip on her
emotions. She can see the wreckage out in the harbor.

EVELYN
There was a sailor, a black man on the
West Virginia, named Dorie Miller. I'd
like to know if he's alive.

She goes back to her work.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

Rafe and Danny hop from the ambulance in which they've
hitched a ride to the harbor. They see the awful
devastation.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Rafe and Danny reach the West Virginia's pier, but in the
darkness, they can't find anything. They stop a NAVAL
OFFICER.

DANNY
Where is the West Virginia?

OFFICER
There.

He points; the battleship has sunk, its superstructure barely
showing above the water.

It looks hopeless to find a single sailor here; but then they
see a powerful black sailor, pulling to the dock with a
dinghy full of dead men retrieved from the water. As workers
unload the bodies, the black sailor sits down, exhausted
physically and emotionally, his head in his hands. Rafe and
Danny approach him.

DANNY
We're looking for Dorie Miller.

DORIE
That's me, Sir.

RAFE
A friend of ours wanted to be sure you're
alive. Evelyn. A nurse.

DORIE
How is she?

DANNY
Like we all are.

Miller nods, and looks out over the harbor, a hellish place
where black smoke still hangs over everything, the shattered
remains of men and ships still in the harbor. It's total
devastation. And yet something about that scene stirs
something else in Dorie Miller.

DORIE
There's something out there I need to
get. Will you help me?

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - AFTERMATH - NIGHT

Dorie pilots the dinghy through the floating debris. Rafe
and Danny sit with him. He stops over a dangerous pile of
superstructure wreckage.

DORIE
The Arizona. Hold the dinghy steady, so
it doesn't bust open.

Rafe and Danny brace the dinghy so it doesn't move; but they
still don't see what Dorie is after as he fishes down in the
water, for something barely at the surface; he works for a
moment, then pulls it up.

It's the oil-soaked flag of the Arizona.

EXT. HULL OF OKLAHOMA - NIGHT

Men are working through the night to save the sailors trapped
in the hull.

INT. OKLAHOMA - THE TRAPPED SAILORS

are in total darkness. From it we hear GASPING, then --

SAILOR
What's that?

The light comes on and sweeps around the faces. The water is
up to their chests, but it's stopped rising.

SAILOR FLASHLIGHT
Just hand on. They'll find us.

SAILOR
How do you know?

SAILOR FLASHLIGHT
Because we would find them.

He switches the light off again.

EXT. HULL OF OKLAHOMA - NIGHT

The welders are cutting away, the torches sending showers of
sparks everywhere.

INT. OKLAHOMA - THE TRAPPED SAILORS

They are gasping, running out of air.

SAILOR FLASHLIGHT
Breathe easy. Stay calm.

SAILOR
You hear something?

Something stirs in the ship; a noise...from where? Then a
point of light; sparks fly into the room; somebody's cutting
through the wall. And the sparks illuminate faces suddenly
filled with hope.

But as the cut enlarges, the trapped air, compressed by the
water, starts rushing out -- and the water starts rising
again. The trapped sailors hope turns to terror.

SAILOR
It's letting out air, and letting in
water!

The steel circle pops out, and they knock the welders down in
their hurry to escape.

Some of the sailors who were trapped are naked. They fight
their way toward the escape hole cut into the hull, assisted
by rescue workers.

EXT. HULL OF OKLAHOMA - NIGHT

The trapped sailors emerge, and they can barely take in the
devastation. Destroyed ships everywhere, the smoking
wreckage... The rescued sailors gaze around them in shock.
They are shivering, and other sailors put blankets around
them.

EXT. WHITE HOUSE - DAY

The entire Washington press corps is waiting, with fresh
bulbs in the flash attachments of cameras that are already as
big as a shoe box. The President is wheeled out of the White
House, and not a single photographer takes a picture...not
yet.

Aides help Roosevelt from the chair, and the press people all
see the President struggle on legs that have no strength, to
the podium. His aides lock the steel clasps at the knees of
his braces into place, and the President stands at the
microphone. And suddenly, from the front, Roosevelt looks
powerful, even majestic.

Now all the bulbs pop and flash. He looks into the cameras.

ROOSEVELT
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date
which will live in infamy -- the United
States of American was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air
forces of the Empire of Japan.

OVER THIS, we see the bombing, the aftermath, the bodies
being fished from the oil-soaked harbor.

ROOSEVELT
The distance of Hawaii from Japan makes
it obvious that the attacks was planned
many days or even weeks ago. During the
intervening time the Japanese Government
has deliberately sought to deceive the
United States by false statements and
expressions of hope for continued peace.

EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - DAY

The Japanese fleet steams back toward Japan. The young
officers are exultant...but Yamamoto is pensive.

ROOSEVELT
...I regret to tell you that many
American lives have been lost.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

We see rows of bodies outside the hospital where Evelyn
works.

The mess hall has been converted to a silent morgue, with
bodies on every table.

ROOSEVELT
Yesterday the Japanese Government also
launched an attack against Malaya. Last
night Japanese forces attacked Hong
Kong... Guam...

OVER THIS, EXT. ISLANDS - NIGHT

We see Japanese planes bombing islands, and soldiers
attacking amphibious landings.

ROOSEVELT
...the Philippine Islands... Wake
Island... And this morning the Japanese
attacked Midway Island.

EXT. WHITE HOUSE - DAY

ROOSEVELT
The facts speak for themselves. With
confidence in our armed forces -- with
the unbounding determination of our
people -- we will gain the inevitable
triumph -- so help us God. I ask that
the Congress declare that since the
unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan
on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of
war --

The words echoes out across America --

ROOSEVELT'S VOICE
War...war...war...

It rings through the radios of farm houses, to country boys
gathered round; in the pool halls of big cities; in the fire
houses and high schools...

THE LINES AT RECRUITING STATIONS all across America -- men
line up faster than the recruiters can handle them.

INT. WHITE HOUSE - DAY

Roosevelt meets with his advisors.

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