PEARL HARBOR

                     EMPEROR'S ATTENDANT
          Surely just a drill, Divine One.

INT.  RAFE'S PLANE - DAY

                     NAVIGATOR
          Last bomb away.

It slams into a factory, blowing debris everywhere and
turning the factory into an inferno.

Rafe's tail gunner sees Zeros swarming in with vengeance.

                     GUNNER
          We got Zeros!  And they're pissed off!

Rafe changes course quickly.

INT.  DANNY'S PLANE - DAY

Anti-aircraft FLAK bursts in the sky in front of them; Danny
takes evasive action.

INT.  RAFE'S PLANE - ABOVE TOKYO - DAY

Rafe pushes the engines to top speed and changes course
again; but the B-25's can't outrun the Zeros.  Their fire
chews into the bomber's tail, hitting the gunner.  Red
scrambles back to find the gunner dead.

                     RAFE
          Can you get 'em off us?

Red reacting to bullets coming through the rear of the
fuselage, looks at the brooms protruding from the rear of the
plane.

                     RED
          Whatta ya want me to do, sweep 'em!

As the bombardier, navigator, and Red jump onto the other
machine guns, Rafe looks for a way out.  He dives down toward
the city.  The Zeros follow.

EXT.  SKIES OVER TOKYO - DAY

Rafe takes the B-25 right down among the buildings, sometimes
even having to spin the wings to get through.  The Zeros
can't keep up with this...

But Rafe can't keep it up long, either; they break out into
open ground rail yards, where there's no place for him to
hide...

The Zeros come in to chew him up...

But they take fire from another B-25 -- Danny's -- coming in
to save Rafe's plane.  Rafe now uses the radio.

                     RAFE
          Danny, get the hell out of here!

But Danny stays, mixing it up with the Zeros; with both
B-25's together, their machine guns down one Zero and damage
another.  But there are too many.

Rafe sees clouds coming in, and fog.

                     RAFE
          Danny, run for the clouds!

The bombers race toward the clouds, and make it; the Zeros
lose them.

EXT.  SKIES - BROKEN CLOUDS - DAY

Rafe and Danny keep broken contact through the clouds, and
settle in for the long run to China.

INT.  RAFE'S COCKPIT - DAY

                     RAFE
          We burned a lot of fuel back there.
          Flash them and ask about their supply.

INT.  DANNY'S PLANE - DAY

Anthony reads the Morse code.

                     ANTHONY
          "How's your fuel?"

Danny looks across to Rafe and shakes his head.

INT.  ROOSEVELT'S RESIDENCE - HYDE PARK, NY - DAY

Roosevelt is at his desk when General Marshall enters.

                     GENERAL MARSHALL
          We have bombed Tokyo, Mr. President.
          Radio Tokyo interrupted it's own
          broadcast to make the announcement.

                     ROOSEVELT
          Have the planes made it to China?

                     GENERAL MARSHALL
          There've been some complications, Sir.
          The Chinese didn't receive our request
          for homing beacons until is was too late
          to get them set.  And the planes had to
          take off so early they may lack fuel to
          make the mainland anyway.

                     ROOSEVELT
          So those brave men are flying blind and
          running out of fuel.

                     GENERAL MARSHALL
          The Chinese are sending out search
          parties to try to find the crews before
          the Jap patrols do, if any of the planes
          make it.

                     ROOSEVELT
          God help them.

EXT.  SEA OF JAPAN - DUSK

They've climbed above the clouds; the fliers are exhausted.

The sun is beginning to set.  Rafe stares at it...

INT.  HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - DUSK

The place is white again -- the white of bandages and casts.
Everyone is busy, and even the wounded are looking out for
each other; a man with his arms in an airplane splint holds a
spoon and feeds a badly burned buddy.  Evelyn and her
overworked nurses are looking after the critical cases.  But
as she covers the windows with blackout curtains, she stops
for just a moment to stare at the sun's last rays.

EXT.  SKIES OVER PACIFIC - NIGHT

Colonel Doolittle can make out mountains below them.

                     DOOLITTLE
          We'll fly till we run out of fuel, then
          bail out.

Just then his engines start to sputter.

                     DOOLITTLE
          Chute!

He puts the plane on auto-pilot and the men move to the
hatches.  Three guys go out; it's just Doolittle and his
copilot left.

                     DOOLITTLE
          Nobody else is gonna make it either.  If
          I live through this, they're gonna put me
          in Leavenworth Prison.

They jump.

INT.  DANNY'S PLANE - NIGHT

Coma moves up to Danny.

                     COMA
          We're running out of fuel.  And I can't
          find the beacon.

Danny gestures across to Rafe that he hears nothing in his
radio phones.  Rafe gestures the same thing back.

They look down and the entire ground is covered with clouds.

                     RAFE
          I don't know if we're over sea or land.
          Drop flares and try to spot something.

EXT.  SKIES OVER PACIFIC - NIGHT

They drop flares; they disappear into the cloud cover and
tell them nothing.

EXT.  SKIES - RAFE AND DANNY'S PLANE - NIGHT

Danny's engines are sputtering; his gunner pours the last
drops of gas into the tanks.

                     DANNY
          Flash Rafe.  We're gonna bail.

Red sees Anthony signal.

                     RED
          They've gotta jump.

                     RAFE
          Not unless we know he's over land!

Rafe yells at Danny, as if he could hear --

                     RAFE
          You are not bailing out into water!

                     RAFE'S NAVIGATOR
          Coastline below!

Through a break in the clouds they spot a rocky shoreline.

                     RAFE
          We've got coast!  Signal him to climb and
          jump.

Red signals; Danny's plane signals back.

                     RED
          They don't have fuel to make altitude.
          He's gonna set it down in the water.

Rafe looks over at Danny, who is gesturing; he gives up on
the hand signals and grabs the flasher; Red reads the Morse
code...

                     RED
          Y-O-U... G-O.  You go on.

Rafe grabs the flasher and angrily flashes back two letters.

                     RAFE
          N-O!  We stay together!  I'll go in
          first.

Rafe turns his bomber and Danny follows, their planes arcing
down toward the rocky coast; it's hairy, the clouds masking
their view, as the altimeter winds down... At the last moment
they see rocks looming out of the surf.

INT.  RAFE'S PLANE - NIGHT

He's shouting to his crew --

                     RAFE
          Hang on tight!  I'll put her in the
          smooth water and we'll swim in!

INT.  DANNY'S PLANE - NIGHT

His engines are sputtering, catching, sputtering; he fights
to stay in control.

EXT.  CHINA COAST - NIGHT

Rafe's plane settles down toward the water; he guns the
engine to level out, and the plane skims across the surface;
then the propellers catch and the plane stops like it hit a
wall, flipping over it's nose.

DANNY'S PLANE is struggling; when he tries to add throttle,
the engines sputter out.  The plane drops, skips once on the
surface, then hits a shoreline rock belly first.

Danny and Anthony are ejected through the top of the
fuselage; Coma is hurled forward right through the glass nose
of the plane.

INT.  RAFE'S PLANE - NIGHT

Rafe and Red come to in the plane inverted and sinking.  They
react, unbuckling, grabbing for their crewmates as the plane
is quickly filling.  The navigator and gunner are
unconscious; the bombardier is dead.  Red struggles with the
hatch and can't make it budge.

                     RAFE
          It won't open til the plane fills!

They struggle to breath as the water envelops them.  But as
the water reaches the top, Rafe takes a last breath and dives
to the hatch; it comes open, and they swim up, dragging the
rest of the crew.

EXT.  CHINA COAST - NIGHT

They break the surface, and struggle to shore with the
unconscious navigator and gunner.

Rafe's looking everywhere; he sees Danny's plane crashed
against the rock.  He fights his way through the surf to
Danny's plane, Red following.

Rafe finds Danny face up in the water.

Red finds Anthony on the rock.  He's face up, but as Red
lifts him he finds the back of Anthony's head is gone.

The rest of Danny's crew are floating in the surf, dead.
Rafe and Red pull Danny to shore.

                     RAFE
          Danny!  DANNY!

Danny's eyes flutter open; he sees Rafe and mumbles --

                     DANNY
          I've made better landings.

Danny's hand gropes to his throat; Rafe finds a V shaped
shard of the fuselage hooked into his neck.

Rafe grabs it, trying to bend it open; the sharp metal cuts
his hands, but he keeps straining.  It won't work, He pulls
his .45 from his jacket and tries to pry the metal.  It works
a bit; he tosses the pistol aside and grabs the shard again,
and opens it.

                     RAFE
          You hang on, Danny!  You hang on!  You're
          gonna make it!