So how realistic is the attack scene?

One of the actual pilots who got in the air that day said PH was complete trash. The Japanese also did not deliberately bomb the hospital.

In the superb "World at War" series, Pearl Harbor survivors talk about the pure chaos of that morning. I don't think there'll ever be a perfect war movie or battle scene because movies require control... even controlled chaos. Not having ever been in combat I can't say for certain, but I'd say the reality lays somewhere both between and beyond those scenes of T!x3 and PH; more chaotic than T!3 certainly, more historical than PH, and with far more carnage than either. The Omaha Beach battle of "Saving Private Ryan" many say comes closest to catching that reality.




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My understanding is the attack in the film was longer that the real attack, by several minutes.

The only thing new they had in the movie was trying to get the men out of the ships that rolled over.


They made it seem like every weapon was super accurate. The worst lazy issue in the movie is not only did the Japanese NOT target the support ships there were MODERN SHIPS IN THE HARBOR. With today's CGI no one could look at a photo, scan it in and make an historically accurate ship?

As stated before by others the support ships were hammered far more in the movie than in the real attack. The USS Texas was used in the film in part to stand in for the lost USS Oklahoma. The Texas had four two gun turrets which came through when the film was showing the Oklahoma capsizing as opposed to the Oklahoma's real configuration of two lower three gun turrets with two two gun upper turrets. The dark color of the Texas came thorough despite the Oklahoma having a lighter paint scheme on the day of the attack. A conning tower that would have been off of a Nevada or Pennsylvania class battleship is shown toppling on to the top deck of a battleship. Somebody could show me different but the only mast/ conning tower that came off would have been off of Oklahoma and that most likely toppled into the harbor after being far long in capsizing as opposed to what was shown in the movie. Also, I read an account that a number of Oklahoma sailors "walked" the capsizing to stand on the overturned hull and then jumped into rescue boats without the those sailors getting wet. Which is to say despite the chaos some were able to keep a cool head. From what i have read there was intentional strafing of sailors once those sailors were in the water. Just my opinion but the film made the Japanese aircraft look more concentrated in the areas of Battleship row and Hickam Field. In the real attack a substantial amount of Japanese aircraft focused on the Nevada as she was heading down the channel in escape. That mostly helped out ships such as the Pennsylvania which sustained light damage.