Who taught you how to fly, Lieutenant?
He did.
All right, Bobby, don't kick. I know it's hard, but...
- I have to amputate here! I have to amputate! - You're not gonna die!
I got you. Can you hold on to this...
Sandra, we're running out of morphine, so you gotta...
you gotta mark 'em, you gotta find some way to mark 'em...
so we can keep track of who's got... got the morphine already.
Tell me about your ship. What ship are you from?
- It's not marking. It's not ma... Ev, you got a marker? - Uh, uh, no.
Use my lipstick. Put M for morphine.
- Evelyn, we need a tourniquet! - Tourniquet?
Where are the clamps? Hurry.
There's nothing left.
- Evelyn. - Here. Use this. - I need you to go outside.
There's too many to help. Okay? You gotta sort 'em out.
Only those that can be saved, you bring in here. You got that?
- I can't. - No, pIease, do it!
I need you to do it. Go! Go!
- Don't let in anyone without a mark. - Stay back!
- I told you, stand back! - Stay outside. Keep 'em outside.
Come on! Let's go! Take this guy up!
- Wait here. - Don't touch me, you Jap! Get your hands off me!
- He's critical. Get him into Critical! - Keep him off me. Keep him off me!
Critical, front ward!
How bad am I?
- You're gonna be just fine, sweetheart. - I don't wanna die! - You're gonna be just fine.
You're not gonna die, sweetheart. I got your hand.
Give him enough morphine to make him comfortable. He's not gonna make it.
Line the critical up in the ward. Get him morphine. Take him over there.
- Take the burn victims by the trees. - I just found her.
- I don't think she's breathing. - No, she's dead. Take her.
- Oh, no. - Oh, God!
Oh, are you sure, Ev? Could you check her one more time to be sure?
She's dead, Sandra, she's dead. Take her over there.
- You've got to be sure before you... - She's dead. Get back to work. - Oh, my God!
Go back to work, Sandra.
I don't know what to do.
- Over here! - AdmiraI?
From Washington.
"Attack by Japan considered imminent."
They're only an hour late.
- How can we help? - We need blood. Come on.
Remember, son, hold on to your faith.
- 1,500 cartons over there. - Remember what Jesus said:
"Today you will be with me in paradise. "So fear not.
Fear not, my son.
You are a man truly blessed. Truly blessed.
You will die in a state of grace.
Remember, pain is temporary, but glory is forever.
Hold on to your faith, my son.
You will be with God and all the saints, all the angels very soon.
I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father...
and of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Go with God, my son.
We've got men trapped everywhere in the harbour.
We need help from anybody who can move.
Don't lose us! Keep swimming!
- Get us outta here! - Help!
There's somebody in here! Get somebody down here!
- They're cuttin' through! - Yeah!
Get us outta here!
I hear somebody! Let's get some guys over here!
Pull!
- Get us outta here! - The room's filling up with water!
Get an air line in here!
- Help us! Hurry! - The air hose!
What can we do?
It won't cut any faster!
Cut 'em out!
Yesterday...
December 7, 1941 ...
a date which will live in infamy...
the United States of America was suddenly and deliberateIy attacked...
by naval and air forces...
of the Empire of Japan.
It is obvious that planning the attack...
began many 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.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands...
has caused severe damage to American military forces.
I regret to tell you that over 3,000 American lives...
have been lost.
No matter how long it may take us...
to overcome this premeditated invasion...
the American people in their righteous might...
will win through...
to absolute victory.
Because of this...
unprovoked, dastardly attack by Japan...
I ask that the Congress declare a state of war.
Is it true...
men are still trapped alive inside the Arizona?
We can hear tapping from inside the hull.
We're doing everything we can to get to them, but they're 40 feet below water.
We've been trained to think that we're invincible...
and now our proudest ships have been destroyed...
by an enemy we considered inferior.
We're on the ropes, gentlemen.
That's exactly why we have to strike back now.
We're preparing an attack against the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, sir, to keep our...
I'm talking about hitting the heart of Japan the way they have hit us.
Mr. President, Pearl Harbor caught us unawares...
because we didn't face facts.
This isn't a time for ignoring them again.
The Army Air Corps has long-range bombers but no place to launch them.
Midway is too far, and Russia...
won't allow us to launch a raid from there.
- Admiral? - The navy's planes are small.
They carry light loads and have a short range.
We'd have to get them within a few hundred miles of Japan...
and therefore risk our carriers, and if we lose our carriers...
we'll have no shield against invasion.
Does anyone in this room...
think that victory is possible without facing danger?
We are at war. Of course there's a risk.
But consider the risk, Mr. President.
If the Japanese invade us right now...
they would penetrate as far as Chicago before we could stop them.
Gentlemen...
most of you did not know me when I had the use of my legs.
I was strong and proud and arrogant.
Now I wonder every hour of my life...
why God put me into this chair.
But when I see defeat in the eyes of my countrymen...
in your eyes right now, I start to think that maybe he brought me down...
for times like these when we all need to be reminded who we truly are...
that we will not give up or give in.
Mr. President, with all respect, sir.
What you're asking can't be done.
- Mr. President... - Mr. President! - Get back, George. Get back.
Do not tell me...
it can't be done.
Japan continues its military conquest throughout the Pacific.
But, back home, millions of American workers...
band together, bringing factories to life to avenge Pearl Harbor.
Mr. President, I think we have an idea about how to bomb the Japanese.
Sir, it's risky, but it's bold.
- Who are you? - I, sir?
Captain Low, Mr. President.
He's a submariner. He came up with this idea, sir.
I like sub commanders.
They don't have time for bullshit, and neither do I.
Fire away, gentlemen.
And where is God in all this?
Our enemies believe that a divine wind protects them.
But we see our friends laid out here before us...
Hey, Cap'n.
- Lieutenants Rafe McCawley, Daniel Walker? - Major.
You're both going stateside. Fly out in two hours.
What for, sir?
Ask Colonel Doolittle.
Yes, sir.
Over there.
Packing.
Orders.
What kind of orders?
The top secret kind.
Dangerous kind.
I, uh, can't find Danny.
That why you're here? Looking for Danny?
He's probably saying goodbye to his squadron. We've been assigned to Doolittle.
I wasn't looking for Danny.
I couldn't have you go away without you understanding something.
Yeah, well, you don't have to explain anything to me.
I do, because you're acting like I didn't love you.
Evelyn, loving you kept me alive.
I should've died over there.
When I was in that water, I made a deal with God.
I told Him I was sorry.
I told Him I knew I'd been a fool for leaving you...
trying to go over there and be a hero...
and I promised I'd never ask for anything again...
if I could just see you one more time.
You know what?
It was worth it.
You kept me alive, Evelyn. You brought me home.
So I'm gonna stand by my end of the deal.
I'm gonna walk away, and I won't ask you for anything.
But I just wanna know why.
Just tell me that, will you, please? Just tell me why.
Rafe, I'm pregnant.
Oh, my God.
I didn't even know until the day you turned up alive.
And then all this happened.
I haven't told Danny.
I don't want him to know.
All he needs to think about is how to do this mission and get back alive.
Rafe, all I ever wanted was for us to have a home...
and grow old together, but life never asked me what I wanted.
Now I'm gonna give Danny my whole heart...
but I don't think I'll ever look at another sunset without thinking of you.
I'll love you my whole life.
I'll see you on board.
You know, the only thing that scares me...
is that you might love him more than you love me.
I love you, Danny...
and I'll be here waiting for you when you come back.
Follow me.
Colonel.
- Congratulations on your promotion, sir. - I heard what you did.
We can explain that, sir.
Explain what?
Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.
You mean the hula shirts you were flying in?
Or the seven planes you shot down?
You're both being awarded the Silver Star...
and promoted to captain.
Is that the good news, sir, or...
You're just about the only pilots in the army with combat experience.
I need you for a mission I've been ordered to put together.
- You know what top secret is? - Yes, sir.
It's the kind of mission where you get medals.
But they send them to your relatives.
Top secret means you train for something...
never done before in aviation history...
and you go without knowing where you're going.
You do it on that basis or not at all.
I'll go, sir.
I'll go too, sir.
By the way, McCawley, the Brits sent this over.
- It's your personal effects. - Thank you, sir.
There's only one more thing I can tell you.
Leave your goddamn hula shirts at home.
Dear Rafe, it's so strange to be this far from you...
but you should know this: Every night...
I've been looking all over for you.
Danny, this... this...
this ain't no time to leave things unsaid.
We gotta face facts here.
The fact is, we just both love the same woman.
You know, she's the first girl I ever felt this way about, Rafe.
I couldn't help what happened any more than you couId.
This is different, though, Danny.
Evelyn already lost the man she loved once. I just don't want to see that happen to her again.
Guys like us got no choice. This is war.
She knows that.
Danny, don't do this. Don't go on this mission.
You got nothing to prove.
You've been trying to protect me since we were kids.
Yeah, well, you do tend to need it from time to time.
The mission I'm asking you to volunteer for is exceptionally dangerous.
Take a look at the man beside you.
It's a good bet that in the next six weeks...
you or he...
will be dead.
Everyone brave enough to accept this...
step forward.
Your grandmother could take a B-25 off on a mile-long runway.
Well, I'm gonna train you to do it in 467 feet.
Because at 468 feet...
you're dead.
And once you get it up, you're gonna learn to fly it like a fighter...
thirty feet off the ground.
I want you to say hello to Lieutenant Jack Richards, Navy Aviation.
He's gonna help us lighten these fat ladies here.
Dump that ashcan. See that bombsight? Get rid of it.
- Colonel, he's crazy. - The lady's fat! - Listen to him.
She's a fat lady. We want a skinny lady.
Max power!
Get up! Get up! Get up!
- Damn! - How in the heck you... - Damn!
They just keep rolling past that line.
- Maybe this mission's a bad idea. - No, they're too heavy. We got to get drastic with these planes.
This armoured plating's got to go.
- I'm sure. I'm sure. Now, lose it like a skirt, son. - Release brakes!
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
- God! - Put every man on the line now!
Let's show these boys how this thing is done!
Come on! Max power!
Well, if he can do it...
Well, gentlemen, now I can tell you that we're going to Tokyo.
And we're gonna bomb it.
That comes as a special request directly from President Roosevelt.
The navy's gonna sneak us about 400 miles off the Japanese coast, and we'll launch from the carrier there.
Has that ever even been done before? Taking army bombers off a navy carrier?
No.
Okay.
- Any other questions? - Well, sir...
is it even possible to land a B-25 on an aircraft carrier deck?
That won't matter.
As soon as we're airborne, the carrier will head straight back for Hawaii.
But if the carriers head home, where do we land?
I have a phrase I want you to memorize.
It means "I am an American."
In Chinese.
Ain't gonna be any easier. That's three feet shorter than our practice runway.
- Fellas? - Sir.
Sir.
- Secretary of the navy gave me these. - What are they?
Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.
- What do they want you to do with them, sir? - We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.
- So what's going on? - Well, sir, we only have 16 planes.
So?
When the Japs hit us, they had more than 300.
I mean, how much difference we really gonna make?
It's not that we're afraid, sir. It's just that we might die doing this, and we wanna know what it's for.
You know, at Pearl, they hit us with a sledgehammer.
This raid, even if we make it through...
it'll only be a pinprick.
But it'll be straight through their hearts.
Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest.
We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too.
Colonel! I need a minute.
- Excuse me, Major Jackson. - Yes. - Do you remember me?
Oh, sure I do. I'm sorry. I've been meaning to thank you.
Maybe you can.
When the news starts coming in about those boys in the Doolittle outfit...
- I wanna be in the command post. - I'm sorry.
I- I don't know what you're talking about.
How in the hell do you know about this mission, Lieutenant?
Let's call it an inadvertent disclosure.
You mean some fly boy you're dating shot his mouth off.
Actually, lt's about two pilots.
I know they're going into great danger.
I just wanna be there when the news comes in to tell us if they've lived or died.
Most officers would have thrown you in the brig.
Most nurses would have gone on to someone else instead of keeping their fingers plugged in your artery.
I can't promise you anything.
One, two, three, one! One, two, three, two! One, two, three...
Hey, Red, you think they just picked us to do this 'cause we're young and dumb?
Come on, Gooz. We're the tip of the sword.
All right, in honour of our trip to Japan, I got us some, uh, victory cigars!
Yeah, victory cigars! There you go.
Put that in your inside pocket next to your heart.
You know, Jack, we may lose this battle, but we're gonna win this war.
- You know how I know? - No.
Them.
Because they're rare.
And in times like these, you see them...
stepping forward.
There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer, Jack.
My friends in the War Department don't want me to lead this raid...
because they say I'm too valuable.
They don't want me up in the air flying with the men that I've chosen...
that I've chewed out, cussed out, pushed to the limit...
and that I've come to respect.
They want me to stand in the flight deck and wave you off. Well, I don't see it that way.
So I'm going with you.
We take off tomorrow afternoon, drop our fire and head for China.
Our mission is to hit military targets, aircraft and tank factories.
Colonel...
you've given us the homing beacons, but you've also toId us that China is overrun with Japanese troops.
What do we do if the beacons are switched off?
You bring her down any way you can and do your best to avoid capture.
What do we do if our planes are damaged and we have to bail out over Japan?
Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what you should do.
What would you do, Colonel?
I wasn't built to be a prisoner.
So I would have my crew bail out.
I'd find the sweetest military target I could...
and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it.
But that's just me.
I'm 45 years old. I'm an old man.
You guys have your whole lives ahead of you.
So what you do is up to you.
The mission will launch in a couple of hours.
You'll stay right in here.
Here. Stay here. Don't talk to them. They won't talk to you.
Pretend to type whatever information we pass you. That's it.
This is Orphan Annie from Radio Tokyo...
to all the ionely boys in the South Pacific.
- Watch out. The enemy wili get you. - Maybe she's right.
Japs transmitting! Japs transmitting!
Captain, Radar reports Japanese patrol boats range of 400 yards.
- How many yards? - 400 yards and cIosing, sir.
Richards! Japs! 400 yards. Let's go!
Admiral Halsey's ordering the cruisers to open fire!
We gotta sink these Jap boats before they give away our position.
Go to general quarters!
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Oh, my God.
This can't be good.
All hands, man your battle stations!
Japs one mile away! They've reported our position!
We're supposed to launch 400 miles away. How far are we now?
624 miles.
- Jesus! - What do you wanna do?
624 miles...
I don't know. Colonel...
I don't know if the planes can carry enough fuel to make it to China.
Now. We launch now!
Army pilots, man your planes!
Man your planes!
They're shooting at something.
Colonel, we're too far out to make it.
These planes need more fuel, but if they're too heavy, they might not get off the deck.
Listen. I want you to strip everything out of this plane you don't need, and I mean now.
Start preflight. Let's go!
Add ten more cans of fuel for each plane.
Every plane!
- Let's go! Let's go! Move! - Come on, you guys. Get up there!
Lose those suitcases now!
- What's your favourite gun? - What?
You wanna get off this deck, you give me one of those guns now. It's still too heavy.
Yo. I want you to go to the kitchen, get some broomsticks. Cut 'em down, paint 'em black and bring 'em here.
- You're gonna put a broomstick where this gun was. - A broomstick.
Your plane's gonna be fine.
You tell your crew to take a piss before they take off, or they're not gonna clear the deck.
- We've got broomsticks for tail guns. - Yeah, maybe it'll scare 'em.
- You take care of yourself up there. - Yeah. I will.
Danny, be careful. You hear me?
- I will. I'll see you, Rafe. - Rafe, we're the tip of the sword.
- Turning on one! - Turning on two!
All right.
You ready for this?
- Superchargers low and latched. - Superchargers are low and latched.
We're full into the wind.
More speed! More speed!
- Are you nervous? - No... Yes, sir. Yes.
- When did you find religion? - When you assigned me to this mission, sir.
- I want you to do me a favour. - What's that, Colonel?
- Pray for both of us. - It's gotta be right!
Let's go!
Max power!
Up, please!
Come on! Come on!
- Yeah! - Way to go!
Jesus, that was short.
- Move 'em up! - All right, full power! Full power! Here we go!
Come on!
Come on! Here we go! Here we go!
We made it!
From Berlin, Rome and Tokyo, we have been described...
as a nation of weaklings and playboys...
who hire British or Russian or Chinese soldiers...
to do our fighting for us.
Let them repeat that now.
Let them tell that to General MacArthur and his men.
Let them tell that to the soldiers who today...
are fighting hard in the far waters of the Pacific.
Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses.
Let them tell that to the marines.
That's Japan right there, fellas. Tighten up back there. Man your guns!
We're in the enemy's backyard.
All right, look alive back there. I see coastline.
Heads up, boys! Heads up!
- Man your guns back there. - I'm cocked and locked!
Get ready, you suckers.
Approaching targets for bombing raid. Open bomb bay doors. Open bomb bay doors.
Ripley, you got our target in sight?
37 degrees. Target in sight.
All right, boys, let's knock their clocks off!
- Drop your ordnance. - Bombs away.
One away!
- Bombs away! - Bombs away!
Two away!
Three away! Four away!
- We caught 'em by surprise. - Dropping ordnance.
Bombs away! Bombs away!
Factories. Just factories.
- We got it! - We got it!
We hit our targets. Good job, Raiders.
We got flak everywhere.
- Go down there and get Gooz! - I want everyone to separate!
- Clean that up. - Yes, sir.
- Try and clean that up. - They're shooting flak at us!
We gotta try and get out of this shit, Gooz.
We got a fire! We got a fire!
It's an electric fi... We got a fire back here!
I'm gonna short this out!
Get into the clouds, Danny, right now! Get up...
Goddamn it!
Red, go check it out.
- I'm getting peppered up here! - Just hope they don't hit a prop.
- I'm hit! - They're gonna tear this plane apart.
We gotta take it up. 800 feet.
I think Theo's dead! Theo, wake up! Theo!
Get into the clouds, Danny, right now. Get up in that soup!
All right, we're gonna pull out of this, Gooz. Come on.
Thank you, George.
What is it, General?
Colonel Doolittle had to advance his execution order by 12 hours, Mr. President.
There'll be no homing beacons.
The plane carrying them crashed en route to China.
And our bombers may lack the fuel to reach the mainland anyway, sir.
So our boys are flying blind on empty tanks.
God help them.
Still not getting a signal.
All ocean, no land. Homing into nothing.
How many cans of fuel we got left?
These are all empty!
- ls this all you got? - That's all we got, Red.
Rafe, you better pray for land.
Break radio silence.
I'm sorry, gentlemen.
You're all brave souls...
among the bravest I've ever had the privilege of flying with.
But we're on our own.
This really was a suicide mission.
- Engine one's fluctuating. - We're gonna lose it any minute.
- Rafe, you gotta prime it. - I'm priming it. How about now?
I see the coastline. I see the coast!
Copy that, Rafe.
- We're gonna make it. - Yeah.
Danny, follow me now. We can make this.
I can see the coast right now. It's only a few miles out. Follow me.
We're following you, Rafe. We gotta find a soft landing spot.
I'm pushing up on two.
Fellas, it's gonna be a hard landing. Hold on.
I see rice paddies right there. We'll bring it in right here.
Oh, God. Engine one's dead.
We're gonna lose engine two any second.
We can make it in. Easy. Pull it back.
We'll glide in, go in on fumes.
Japs! We got Jap patrols all over the place!
There's Japs everywhere! Danny, land somewhere else!
Strap yourself in, boys! We're coming in hard!
- We're a dead stick. - Get out of the nose!
Hold on, boys! We're going down!
Watch the trees!
Oh, God!
Everyone all right?
I'm okay. I'm okay.
Where's Ripley?
He's dead.
Watch for Japs.
Jap patrols! Take cover!
- Who's got extra magazines? - I got 'em.
We got to get up into those hills and find the Chinese.
They got us pinned down!
- Danny! - Rafe!
- Rafe, no! Rafe! - Danny!
You don't have a chance! Rafe!
Oh, God. Dan... Danny!
Come on!
- Gooz? You okay, man? - Danny!
Oh, shit. Anthony.
Gooz!
- Can you hear me? Come on. - Yeah. Yeah.
- Danny. Easy, easy, easy. - I've had better landings.
- You saved us back there. - I got something in my neck.
- Let me try to pull this out for you. - Where's Gooz?
He's fine. He's right over there.
Rafe!
Grenade!
Danny.
Danny!
Danny. Oh!
- Hold on. Just hold on one second. - Rafe.
Hold on now. I got you. You're all right. You're all right. There you go.
I'm not... I'm not gonna make it.
Oh, yes, you are. Yes, you are. Danny, look at me.
Rafe.
I'm so cold. I'm so cold.
You're all right. Hey.
Hey, Rafe?
- Can you do me a favour? - What?
Can you have someone else write my name on the tombstone?
You're not gonna die. Look at me. Listen to me. You ain't gonna die.
You hear me? Danny.
Danny, you can't die. You can't die.
You know why? 'Cause you're gonna be a father, Danny.
You're gonna be a daddy. I was... I wasn't supposed to tell you.
You're gonna be a father.
Please.
No, you are.
Danny.
Danny?
Please. Please. Please.
God.
Please, Danny.
Hold your fire. They're Chinese.
When the action is over and we look back...
we understand both more and less.
This much is certain.
Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat.
After it, there was hope of victory.
Japan realized, for the first time, that they could Iose and began to pull back.
America realized that she would win and surged forward.
It was a war that changed America and the world.
Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross.
But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes.
That's for all the Raiders.
World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor...
and 1,177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona.
America suffered, but America grew stronger.
It was not inevitable.
The times tried our souls...
and through the trial, we overcame.
Hey, Danny. How'd you like to go fIying?
Come here.
When I think back on these times
And the dreams we left behind
I'll be giad 'cause I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back on these days
I'll look and see your face
You were right there for me
In my dreams, I'll always see you
Soar above the sky
In my heart, there will always be a place for you
For all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
Well, you showed me how it feels
To feel the sky within my reach
And I always will remember
All the strength you gave to me
Your love made me make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me
In my dreams, I'll always see you
Soar above the sky
In my heart, there will always be
A place for you
For all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
'Cause I always saw in you my light
My strength
And I wanna thank you now for all the ways
- You were right there for me - You were right there for me
You were right there for me
For always
In my dreams, I'll always see you
Soar above the sky
In my heart, there will always be
A place for you for all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
And everywhere I am
There you'll be