United States Navy in World War II films (Film Guide): Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Caine Mutiny, Pearl Harbor, The Sand Pebbles, Wake Island, Midway

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 40. Chapters: Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Caine Mutiny, Pearl Harbor, The Sand Pebbles, Wake Island, Midway, In Harm's Way, Run Silent, Run Deep, Operation Petticoat, The Enemy Below, South Pacific, The Frogmen, PT 109, You're in the Navy Now, Operation Pacific, Away All Boats, Above Us the Waves, This Man's Navy, Operation Bikini, The Fighting Lady, Stand by for Action, Destroyer, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, Storm Over the Pacific, Return to Guam, Ensign Pulver, The Sharkfighters, In Enemy Hands, The Fleet That Came to Stay, Our Enemy- The Japanese. Excerpt: Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner. Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some of its scenes were among the last to be filmed in Technicolor. Despite being panned by critics, Pearl Harbor earned $449,220,945 at the world wide box office. In 1923, two Tennessee boys, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, pretending to fight the Germans, climb into Rafe's father's biplane cropduster and accidentally start it, giving them their first taste of flying. Soon after, Danny's father (William Fichtner) comes to drag him home, berating him for playing with Rafe and beating him. Rafe attacks Danny's father calling him a "dirty German"; Danny's father counters by explaining that he fought the Germans in World War I and wishes that they never witness the horrors of war. By 1940, as grown men, Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) are First Lieutenants in ...