Tora Tora Tora!

[Huey]

I had seen this movie probably when I was ten, and caught the last part of it Saturday, basically half way through the Pearl Harbor attack. What surprised me the most, were the scenes that mirrored the movie Pearl Harbor.

Now, I'm not sure if both movies were recreating actual events, like the black guy getting on the big gun and trying to shoot Zero's, or that Pearl Harbor stole scenes and dialog from Tora? Did a search and didn't see any reference one way or another. Any input?

 

[mzpro5]

Those scenes are based on anecdotes of factual recollections from Pearl survivors as far as I know.

I was familiar with the story of a Dorie Miller the black cook, (blacks could only serve in the support roles such as cook/galley mate then) that manned the machine gun after saving his commanding officer.

 

[Huey]

That's what I was wondering. Wish I had seen the whole movie, but the parts I saw, they had the two guys coming out of the bar in the morning, with them to be the only two who got planes off the ground, as well as the "We have woken a sleeping giant" at the end of the movie.