Pearl harbour?

Question

Were the characters from the movie pearl harbour based on actual people? Was there actually a whole romance going on with the people who shot down the japanese planes?

Answer 1

There were two P-40 Warhawk fighter pilots on Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941, who managed to get off the ground from a satellite field and shoot down, I believe, five enemy aircraft. These two army men were not pilots on Jimmy Doolittle's famed Tokyo Raid some months later. Although details of the nurses' actions in the attack are sometimes accurate --like using lipstick in triage-- the romantic triangle described in the movie is fictional.

Answer 2

"Pearl Harbor" was a miserable movie about a most dramatic event in our history. How Hollywood managed to mess up great story is a mystery.

There were two things I liked about it though, the heroism of the nurses and the sinking of Battleship Oklahoma, these were both very movingly portrayed.

Two American USAAC pilots flying P-40B fighters did manage to get aloft and did claim a few Japanese aircraft. They were George Welch (heir to the Welch's Grape Juice fortune) and his friend Kenneth Taylor. These real men hardly resembled the fictional heroes Hollywood cooked up. The CGI dogfights the effects crew dreamed up are wretched as well. Couldn't they have hired a retired fighter jock to help them? Instead it looks like Star Wars in a Hawaiian shirt.

There was a really good story staring them in the face and they blew it.

CORRECTION
I fell prey to a popular myth. George Welch was NOT related to the grape juice family. His father was a chemist for DuPont.

Answer 3

The romantic leads played by Josh Harnett and Ben Affleck are not based on true people. The character Cuba Gooding Jr. plays is based on the real person. There were factual things within the movie, but it was made purely for entertainment.

Answer 4

The movie Pearl Harbor is a terrible attempt at telling the real story. Much of it was dramatized and a lot of it was just made up. Terrible movie!

Answer 5

No, that movie had almost nothing to do with real life. I'm embarrassed to admit I actually watched the whole thing. The whole thing was a farce inside farce inside a love story. Absolutely one of the crappiest movies ever made.

If you want to see a movie that portrays the attack in a fairly accurate manner watch "Tora Tora Tora".

Answer 6

jap attacked pearl harbor as a results of fact of reasons including oil embargo imposed by utilizing US as a results of fact Japan occupy China yet unknown to all and assorted in the previous the attack by utilizing Japan Imperial military to Pearl harbor the Civilian chief human beings and few chosen Naval Commander or Mil Ldr have a pre-hand in the previous the attack that s why their plane provider weren't around for the duration of the attacked. the U. S. knows in improve approximately time and whilst and strenght of JIN as a results of fact they have already deciphered or decoded the radio or the U. S. have get right of entry to to their JIN verbal exchange between their civilian leaders and armed forces ldrs. the U. S. has a suitable sign intelligence and human intelligence even whilst US at conflict with China, China would be defeated cuase their verbal exchange exchange into already debugged by utilizing US long term in the past. Now you won't be able to do this if no longer of the elite human beings or conglomerate businessman who has skill even the management of China and mil ldrs are under of their sphere of impact alongside with the U. S.. My end for this reason is company if China does not behaved they're doomed for destruction.

Answer 7

I've not seen the movie, but there is no historical evidence to back that whole romance story.. You never know, of course though.

Answer 8

That movie was awful. Nowhere near the reality.
Cuba G was good in it though.

Answer 9

Other than the romance everything you saw was historicaly accurate, especially in the triage. I did like the movie for that.