Resumé og anmeldelse af filmen 'Pearl Harbor'

In 1923, two Tennessee boys, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, pretend to fight the Germans. Rafe and Danny climb Rafe’s father's plane and accidentally start it, that gave Rafe and Dannys first taste of flying.

By 1940, as grown men, Rafe and Danny are First Lieutenants in the United States Army Air Corps under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. Rafe meets Evelyn Johnson, a Navy nurse who passes him for his physical examination even though he has dyslexia, and is instantly smitten. The two soon begin dating and fall in love. Rafe are going in war but he promises that he will get back. Rafe got shot down over the English Channel and presumed killed in action. Three months later, Evelyn and Danny starting meeting each other, and start dating. They soon begin their own relationship. On the night of December 6, 1941, Rafe unexpectedly returns, having survived the crash and been stranded in occupied France in the interval. He quickly realizes that Evelyn and Danny are now together. The two friends soon get into a fight at the local hula bar, and they got enemies. The next morning, on December 7, they are interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by Zero fighters, Val dive bombers and Kate torpedo bombers. Many people dies and a lot of marine ships sunk.Rafe and Danny are the only two who manage to get airborne and shoot down seven Japanese aircrafts. Rafe and Danny are both promoted to Captain, awarded the Silver Star and assigned to now-Colonel Doolittle for a dangerous and top-secret mission. Before their departure, Evelyn meets Rafe and reveals that she is pregnant with Danny's child, although she doesn't want Danny to know so he can focus on the upcoming mission. They should bomb in the Centrum of Japan. The succeed in their bombing but crashed into a rice field in China. The Japanese soldiers surrounded the American pilots and are about to shot Rafe. But the American soldier’s fights back and only Danny got shot. Rafe holds a dying Danny in his arms, telling him he can't die because he's going to be a father. With his dying words, Danny tells Rafe to raise his child for him. And when Rafe came home he and Evelyn lived happily ever after.