PEARL HARBOR

He runs for the ladders, and is shot down before he gets
there.

EXT.  SKIES OVER PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The dive bombers scream in.

EXT.  DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Bombs are hitting the deck.  Sailors are blown into the air
and out into the oily water.  Nearby ships are catching fire;
the flames spread out onto the oily water itself.

INT.  BELOW DECKS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie Miller, the boxing champion/kitchen helper, is working
picking up the breakfast trays when he feels the ship
shudder.  The intercom comes alive --

                     INTERCOM
          Battle stations!  Battle stations!  This
          is not a drill!

Men run to the ladders, and the shaking of the ship from a
bomb blast tosses them off; Dorie's at the foot of the ladder
when men fall back on top of him.

EXT.  BRIDGE OF WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

The Captain of the ship has reached the command bridge, where
most of his staff is lying wounded from a bomb blast.

                     CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
          Stay calm!  Find your positions.  Medics,
          get the wounded to sick bay!  Load and --

MORE TORPEDOES and BOMBS blast into the ship.  A big chunk of
shrapnel tears into the Captain and rips his stomach open.
The medics he was just directing to other men now run to him,
as the men they were going to help have been blown apart.

EXT.  DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Sailors run up from below and are gunned down and blasted
down before they can reach their weapons.

Dorie Miller emerges from below decks and sees the carnage,
the confusion.  A bloody OFFICER grabs him.

                     BLOODY OFFICER
          Boy!  We need stretcher bearers on the
          bridge!

Dorie runs into the fire and smoke, toward the bridge.

EXT.  BRIDGE OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie arrives to see the medics crouched over the
disemboweled Captain, who is still giving orders.

                     CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
          Radio for air cover.  Organize the other
          medics.  Initiate fire control.

Dorie helps the medic lift the Captain to take him below.

INT.  BELOW DECKS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie carries the Captain down the ladder by himself, using
one arm to climb and one to hold the Captain like a child's
teddy bear.  When they reach the bottom the pain has grown
too much for the Captain; he know's he's dying.

                     CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
          Put me down here.

Dorie puts him down; the medic jumps down the ladder and
reaches the Captain, who tells him --

                     CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
          Find my executive officer and tell him
          he's in command.  Tell him to fire the
          boilers and...

He trembles in death throes...

                     CAPTAIN OF THE WEST VIRGINIA
          Make sure the gunners have enough
          ammuni --

He's dead.  The Medic runs toward the ladder, reaches the
hatch, and is blasted back to the bottom by an explosion
overhead.

Dorie runs for the ladder, and climbs out into hell.

EXT.  DECK OF THE WEST VIRGINIA - DAY

Dorie emerges into even greater carnage and confusion.  A
sailor, his body on fire, runs past and leaps into the oily
water -- but it is in flames too.

Then Dorie sees it:  an unmanned anti-aircraft gun.  He runs
to it, through the strafing.

The gun already has a belt of ammo in it -- apparently loaded
by the gunner who lies beside it with his chest shot open.
Dorie swings the business end of the gun toward the Zeros
coming in out of the smoke, and he begins to fire.

The Zeros keep coming and he keeps firing; nothing on earth
will knock him from that gun.

INT.  NURSES' BARRACKS - DAY

Evelyn is up, dressed; her roommates are just stirring.

EXT.  NURSES' QUARTERS - OAHU - DAY

Evelyn has stepped to the door when she hears a distant
rumble and looks across the harbor to see smoke rising, ships
taking hits.

                     EVELYN
          Oh my God... EVERYBODY TO THE HOSPITAL!

As she runs, Japanese planes are coming toward the base.

EXT.  THE MESS HALL AT HICKAM FIELD - DAY

The men were sitting down to breakfast, but the machine gun
bullets tearing up the outer walls have them clogging the
doors, and it's so clogged they can't all get out.

A steel bomb crashes through the roof and slams through the
room, taking out tables and chairs before bouncing off the
wall and coming to a stop.

TWO SOLDIERS, trapped within the mess hall, see it stop
without detonating.  They are bug-eyed, hearts stopped.

                     MESS HALL SOLDIER
          Dud.

The bomb detonated, blowing everything to bloody dust.

INT.  HOSPITAL - DAY

Evelyn reaches the hospital first and runs to the cabinet,
withdrawing supplies.

Barbara and Sandra appear at the far door, both terrified.

                     EVELYN
          Get everything out!  Bandages, sutures --
          oh God, the men in traction... Come with
          me!

She races into the hallway, the other two following.

INT.  HOSPITAL - TRACTION WARD - DAY

Four men from a jeep accident are lying in traction, their
casted limbs roped in the air.  Evelyn runs in, grabbing a
razor blade from the medical cabinet -- and telling Barbara
and Sandra.

                     EVELYN
          Cut them down, and take cover!!  Hurry!

Bombs are falling outside, on the airfield this wing of the
hospital faces.  Evelyn slices the traction ropes of a man
with both legs broken; ignoring his groans, she rolls him out
of the bed and covers him with the mattress.  The other
nurses follow her lead.  The bombs are coming toward the
hospital ward; Evelyn finishes with the fourth man and covers
him and herself with the mattress, just as a bomb craters
outside the window.

The nurses and patients look up after the explosions have
passed; there's a chunk of smoking shrapnel lying on the
springs of the bunk where the last man had been lying.

EXT.  HICKAM FIELD - DAY

The Japanese low-altitude bombers, with Zero escorts, zoom in
over the field, blasting the clusters of American warplanes,
whole squadrons taken out with one bomb.

The mechanics and pilots, caught in the open, run from the
strafing.  The Zeros rake them down with machine gun fire.
It's carnage.

EXT.  PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY

Sammy, the amateur photographer, is leaving his house for a
morning of working his "Pictures of Paradise" business, when
he sees the Japanese formations rumbling toward Pearl.  He
races back inside.

INT.  PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY

He fishes into his drawer for a film camera, and digs out
cans of film, struggling to load it as he runs back out.

INT.  HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY

The pilots of Danny's squadron have returned from their night
of drinking and brawling and are crashed on their bunks.  Red
stirs and staggers toward the head; he bumps into the wall,
backs up like a wind-up toy and lurches blindly forward
again, into --

INT.  BARRACKS - THE HEAD - DAY

Red sleepwalks to the urinals and unleashes a marathon piss
stream, still in his sleep.  A rumble penetrates his brain,
and his eyes come open a fraction.  Through the window slits
above the urinals, he can see a cloud of Japanese planes
rushing past.

He squeezes his eyes shut, and looks again; the planes start
bombing the distant hangers.

Red pisses along the wall as he races to the barracks, trying
to get his pecker back into his drawers.  He shouts to the
sleeping guys --

                     RED
          Th-th-th-th-th-

He slaps his face with both hands, and stomps his feet...

                     RED
          Th-th-th-th-Dammit!  Th-th-th-

He still can't get it out, can't wake them; bursting with
frustration, he suddenly blasts out singing --

                     RED
               (singing)
          The Jaaaps!!  The Jaaaps!!

He's belting it like a baritone in a bizarre opera.  His
friends stir; what the hell?  Red points outside and tries to
talk, but now he can't mutter a syllable.  The guys hear the
explosions, and realize...

EXT.  HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY

The pilots stagger out, half drunk, half dressed.  Seeing
what's happening, they race toward the flight line, where the
clustered American planes are blowing up in groups, and the
pilots are knocked to the ground.

                     BILLY
          Goddamn Japs!

Billy jumps to his feet and starts to run toward a cluster of
fighters that hasn't gone up yet.

                     ANTHONY
          Billy!

Anthony tries to grab him and drag him back to earth but he
misses; Billy gets a few steps before the fire from a
strafing Zero catches up to him; his friends watch in horror
as Billy gets shorter as he runs; the Zero's machine gun fire
is sawing his legs off from the feet up.

Billy falls, legless but still alive; then a bomb falls
almost on top of him, sending body parts over the pilots.

Their innocence, like America's, is gone in that moment.

EXT.  ROAD TO MAIN AIRFIELD - DAY

Danny and Rafe are in Danny's Buick, hung over and asleep,
Danny in front, Rafe in back, and they're a miserable sight
-- their shirts ripped, blood dried in a leak trail from one
side of Rafe's nose and the corner of Danny's mouth.

The rumble of planes moving overhead makes them stir; the
rumble grows huge, as the shadows of a massive formation
makes the sunlight flicker.  Danny and Rafe squint up, their
heads pounding, and realize what they're seeing.  Suddenly
their headaches are gone, and Danny's gunning the Buick down
the road, toward the base.

EXT.  AIR BASE - DAY

Danny blasts through the main gate; the guards are too busy
taking cover and haven't even closed the barrier.

He races to the tarmac, where some of the planes are still
undamaged.  Rafe is out the door before the car stops
rolling, and Danny's right behind him.

They're running toward a cluster of fighters, when it goes up
with a bomb blast.  Rafe and Danny dive at each other; their
first instinct is to cover their best friend with their own
bodies.

They look at each other on the ground.  They see machine gun
bullets thudding into the planes on the flight line, and
ripping along the walls of the buildings.  It's as if the
whole Japanese airforce is attacking this one base, and not
leaving a single plane airworthy.

                     RAFE
          Get me into a plane!

                     DANNY
          Come on!

Danny sprints; Rafe follows.  Danny reaches a phone booth,
and digs a dime from his pants.

                     RAFE
          You're making a phone call?!

Danny dials, as waves of bullets sweep the area, and more
planes blow up on the flight line.  Rafe thinks he's lost his
mind.

                     DANNY
               (into phone)
          This is Walker!  We're under attack!  Get
          those planes fueled and armed RIGHT NOW!

He runs back toward the car; Rafe, in the nonsense of battle,
reaches in to hang up the receiver, before Danny grabs him
and leads him on a sprint to the car, as the phone booth
shatters behind them from the strafing.

On the way to the car they dive back to the ground to avoid
strafing -- and see their friends lying nearby, in shock.

                     ANTHONY
          They got Billy.

                     DANNY
          Come with us!

He and Rafe jump up and run again.  Anthony, Red, and several
other pilots reach the Buick and dive in.  Danny drives away,
through the strafing.

                     RAFE
          Where are we going?

                     DANNY
          Auxiliary field at Haleiwa, ten miles
          north of here.

                     RAFE
          What's there?

                     DANNY
          Six P-40's.

As the Zero pilots see the Buick moving, they go after it.
Danny drives like a madman through the strafing, zigzagging
and gunning the Buick's V-8.

EXT.  THE OKLAHOMA - STILL AT ANCHOR - DAY

The number of attacking planes seems endless -- and their
strategy flawless.  Torpedoes hitting one ship lifts its hull
with a blast, enabling the next wave of torpedoes to rush
under and hit the next ship anchored behind.  The American
battleships are bobbing like see-saws.

The OKLAHOMA takes an entire barrage of torpedoes, blowing
thirty foot holes along it's hull; the ship immediately
begins to list.

INT.  THE OKLAHOMA - DAY

Doors are wedged shut by the deformation of the structure;
vertical ladders are becoming horizontal, and water is
pouring in.  Men fight their way up against the water.

INT.  INNER COMPARTMENT OF THE OKLAHOMA - DAY

Water is up to the trapped sailor's waists when they grab a
wrench and start taking turns pounding S.O.S. in Morse code
on the bulkhead.

EXT.  DECK OF OKLAHOMA - DAY

As the listing grows more severe, sailors start jumping from
the deck into the water.  Still the Marines on deck are
firing back at the planes; some Marines are even using
handguns.  But courage does not save them...

THE OKLAHOMA ROLLS OVER

The men still on its deck try to run, but it's not just the
fires and the water they can't escape; the gun turrets' 1400
pound shells break loose with the capsizing of the ship and
tumble through everything like massive wrecking balls.

The sailors and marines, thrown into the water, struggle to
get away from the suction as the giant battleship turns
turtle.

BELOW THE WATER men are sucked down with amazing force, every
hair on their heads streaming behind them as they're snatched
to the depths.

INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA, everyone and everything is spilling
upside down.  The ship's generators sputter out and the
lights go out.  The flashlights of the few sailors who can
find them cut raggedly through the darkness, and water spills
in.  There is no escape.

BELOW THE WATER, the Oklahoma's superstructure hits bottom;
some men are crushed there.  For others it's salvation, as
the BACKWASH blows them toward the surface.

ON THE SURFACE the men are launched almost completely out of
the water, before splashing back into the water and burning
oil.  A few feet of the steel hull and a portion of the
propeller protrude above the surface, but most of the
Oklahoma is under water.

Men in the water swim toward a medical launch carrying
wounded away from the wreckage.  A bomb hits the launch and
blows body parts everywhere.

INT.  OKLAHOMA - REAR COMPARTMENT

In one compartment there are a dozen trapped men.  They've
survived the roll-over, and are in a chaotic world where the
floor is now the ceiling.  The water is up their waists.
Some of the SAILORS are panicking.

One sailor has a flashlight and switches it on, flashing the
light from face to face.

                     SAILOR WITH THE FLASHLIGHT
          Don't panic!  Don't panic!

                     PANICKED SAILOR
          The water's rising!  It's coming up,
          we're all gonna drown!