PEARL HARBOR

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.

                     ROOSEVELT
          Gentlemen, the crisis we face is not the
          fact that our enemies believe they can
          defeat us -- it's the fact that our people
          believe it too.  I want a plan -- a
          workable plan -- to hit the heart of
          Japan, to bomb them the way they have
          bombed us.

                     ADMIRAL
          Mr. President, Pearl Harbor caught us
          because we didn't face facts.  This isn't
          a time for ignoring them again.  There
          are no planes in the entire American
          arsenal capable of covering the distance
          to Japan from any land base we control
          while carrying enough bombs to do any
          damage whatsoever.

                     GENERAL MARSHALL
          He's right, Mr. President.  The Army has
          long range bombers, but no place to
          launch them from.  Midway's too far,
          China is overrun by Japanese forces, and
          Russia refuses to go to war with Japan
          and won't allow us to launch a raid from
          there.

                     ADMIRAL
          The navy's planes are small, carry light
          loads, and have short range.  We would
          have to get them within a few hundred
          miles of Japan, and therefore risk our
          carriers.  And if we lose our carriers,
          we have no shield against invasion.

                     ROOSEVELT
          What if the Japanese did invade?

                     GENERAL MARSHALL
          We've done studies.  We're confident we
          would turn them back eventually...after
          they'd gotten as far as Chicago.

                     ADMIRAL
          Mr. President...with all respect...what
          you are asking can't be done.