PEARL HARBOR

                     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!