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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:48,854 --> 00:03:51,063 Admiral Yamamoto, please. 2 00:03:51,148 --> 00:03:53,065 He asked not to be disturbed. 3 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:54,817 It is most urgent. 4 00:04:15,923 --> 00:04:17,632 Admiral Yamamoto? 5 00:04:18,717 --> 00:04:20,343 Tokyo has been bombed. 6 00:04:20,427 --> 00:04:21,469 When? 7 00:04:21,553 --> 00:04:23,054 Ten minutes ago, Admiral. 8 00:04:23,138 --> 00:04:25,514 Yokohama, Kawasaki and Yokosuka were also bombed. 9 00:04:26,016 --> 00:04:28,351 His Imperial Majesty is unharmed, sir. 10 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:30,937 I personally phoned the palace. The Emperor is safe. 11 00:04:32,230 --> 00:04:33,272 Damage? 12 00:04:33,357 --> 00:04:34,565 Very little to Tokyo. 13 00:04:34,650 --> 00:04:36,317 The other cities haven't reported in yet, 14 00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:40,196 but it seems probable that they too were barely scratched. 15 00:04:41,323 --> 00:04:43,282 How did they do it, Watanabe? 16 00:04:43,367 --> 00:04:45,159 They launched long-range land-based bombers 17 00:04:45,243 --> 00:04:47,370 from their carriers, B-25s. 18 00:04:47,746 --> 00:04:49,330 They came in at treetop level, 19 00:04:49,414 --> 00:04:52,041 they weren't even seen until they were over the city. 20 00:04:52,125 --> 00:04:54,293 Tokyo... Bombed! 21 00:04:54,378 --> 00:04:56,504 Sir, I understand your deep concern 22 00:04:56,588 --> 00:04:58,714 for the Emperor's safety, but... 23 00:04:58,799 --> 00:05:00,883 You may speak freely, Commander. 24 00:05:00,968 --> 00:05:03,886 Sir, this raid is a blessing in disguise. 25 00:05:03,971 --> 00:05:06,180 The Americans have done us an invaluable service. 26 00:05:06,264 --> 00:05:07,598 They have proven you correct. 27 00:05:07,683 --> 00:05:10,017 Our homeland is not invulnerable to attack. 28 00:05:10,102 --> 00:05:11,727 After today, there will be no more 29 00:05:11,812 --> 00:05:13,521 foot-dragging by the general staff. 30 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:17,149 Now they will certainly approve your Operation M-I. 31 00:05:22,364 --> 00:05:24,782 ANNOUNCER ON RADIO: Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle 32 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:28,077 led the raid with a force of 16 B-25s 33 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:30,663 and an all-volunteer crew of airmen. 34 00:05:30,747 --> 00:05:34,834 Most of the planes carried three 500-pound demolition bombs 35 00:05:34,918 --> 00:05:37,003 and single incendiary clusters, 36 00:05:37,087 --> 00:05:38,838 which were dropped on oil stores, 37 00:05:38,922 --> 00:05:43,092 factory areas and on some of the military installations of Tokyo. 38 00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:47,888 A few planes went on to make minor strikes on Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya, 39 00:05:47,973 --> 00:05:52,059 with one bomb hitting the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo. 40 00:05:52,144 --> 00:05:55,312 News of the raid has had a most heartening effect on American morale 41 00:05:55,397 --> 00:05:57,273 and the morale of our allies, 42 00:05:57,357 --> 00:06:00,026 while at the same time constituting a blow 43 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:02,361 to the prestige of the Japanese. 44 00:06:10,829 --> 00:06:12,246 Yes, sir. 45 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:18,169 ANNOUNCER ON RADIO: At his press conference today, 46 00:06:18,253 --> 00:06:20,963 President Roosevelt was asked the following questions, 47 00:06:21,048 --> 00:06:25,051 quote, "Mr. President, couldn't you tell us about that bombing? 48 00:06:25,135 --> 00:06:27,762 "Where did those planes start from and go to?" 49 00:06:27,846 --> 00:06:31,307 He replied, "Yes, the time has now come to tell you. 50 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:35,311 "They came from our new secret base at Shangri-La." Unquote. 51 00:06:36,521 --> 00:06:38,981 Well, my God, it's Captain Garth! 52 00:06:39,066 --> 00:06:42,401 I was expecting some junior intelligence officer. Not air ops himself. 53 00:06:42,486 --> 00:06:43,736 Well, this is an unexpected honor. 54 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:45,571 Yeah, like hell it is, Joe! 55 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:47,490 Admiral Nimitz sent me over here... 56 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,617 To chew out my ass, huh? 57 00:06:51,203 --> 00:06:53,788 Officially, Joe, I'm supposed to question that estimate 58 00:06:53,872 --> 00:06:56,040 of Japanese intentions you sent over. 59 00:06:56,124 --> 00:06:57,583 Why so grim, Matt? 60 00:06:57,667 --> 00:06:59,251 My God, I should think that Doolittle attack 61 00:06:59,336 --> 00:07:02,088 would have you CINCPAC people dancing in the streets. 62 00:07:02,172 --> 00:07:05,591 Not by a long shot. That damn raid could boomerang on us. 63 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:06,634 The fleet's still crippled. 64 00:07:06,718 --> 00:07:08,761 We only got four carriers in the whole Pacific. 65 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:10,513 We need time to rebuild. 66 00:07:10,597 --> 00:07:13,933 Now the boss is afraid Yamamoto's going to jump right back at us. 67 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:15,184 Question is, "Where?" 68 00:07:16,228 --> 00:07:19,188 Well, we got all the latest intercepts right over here. 69 00:07:22,526 --> 00:07:24,610 Here's a list of Japanese ships 70 00:07:24,694 --> 00:07:28,322 that we suspect are gonna be assigned 71 00:07:28,406 --> 00:07:32,159 to amphib operations south of Rabaul. 72 00:07:32,327 --> 00:07:33,869 The Coral Sea! 73 00:07:34,746 --> 00:07:37,790 That's where we think they'll strike next. 74 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:41,836 But something else is stirring, something out our way. 75 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,296 Joe, we need facts, not guesswork. 76 00:07:44,381 --> 00:07:46,090 Matt, we've cracked Yamamoto's staff level code. 77 00:07:46,174 --> 00:07:47,174 I know. 78 00:07:47,259 --> 00:07:49,718 But that don't mean we just reel it off word for word like a song. 79 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,929 We get a flicker here and a glimmer there. 80 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:53,430 Missing pieces fall into place. These interceptions... 81 00:07:53,515 --> 00:07:54,723 How much can you decipher? 82 00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:56,642 Hell, 15 maybe... 83 00:07:56,726 --> 00:07:58,060 Really decipher. 84 00:07:58,603 --> 00:08:00,563 10%. 10... 85 00:08:01,273 --> 00:08:05,192 That's one word in ten. For Christ's sakes, Joe, you're guessing! 86 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:10,156 We like to call it "analysis." 87 00:08:11,074 --> 00:08:12,158 All right. 88 00:08:12,242 --> 00:08:14,285 What are these indications you got 89 00:08:14,369 --> 00:08:16,412 of something brewing back our way? 90 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:18,164 Got no hard clues yet. 91 00:08:18,248 --> 00:08:19,915 What do you have, Joe? 92 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,627 An increase in radio traffic between Yamamoto's staff commanders. 93 00:08:23,712 --> 00:08:24,837 And that's all? 94 00:08:24,921 --> 00:08:26,255 Could be significant. 95 00:08:26,798 --> 00:08:30,092 At least I feel that something is stirring. 96 00:08:30,177 --> 00:08:31,594 All right. 97 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:34,013 I'll take that list of Jap warships 98 00:08:34,097 --> 00:08:36,098 you feel are heading for Coral Sea. 99 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:38,767 Nimitz may wanna send Jack Fletcher's task force down there 100 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:41,687 to find out what the hell is going on. 101 00:08:41,771 --> 00:08:44,940 We'll see how your 10% guesswork pays off, huh? 102 00:08:45,901 --> 00:08:50,070 As for the Black Chamber code-crackers, I thank you, Matt. 103 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:53,365 Hey, Joe, could I ask you something personal, very personal? 104 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:54,867 Certainly. 105 00:08:55,869 --> 00:08:58,162 You know, it really stinks down here. 106 00:08:58,246 --> 00:09:00,831 How often do some of your people take a bath? 107 00:09:00,916 --> 00:09:04,376 Bath? My God, I don't know... What day is it? 108 00:09:05,462 --> 00:09:07,046 Forget it, Joe. 109 00:09:12,677 --> 00:09:14,929 Any new Yamamoto intercepts? 110 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:18,557 Here's a first mention of something they're calling "AF," 111 00:09:18,642 --> 00:09:20,142 whatever that means. 112 00:09:20,852 --> 00:09:22,436 AF? 113 00:09:51,007 --> 00:09:52,341 MAN: Captain! 114 00:09:55,971 --> 00:09:57,721 Tom? Dad. 115 00:10:00,225 --> 00:10:01,684 My God, Tom. 116 00:10:02,227 --> 00:10:04,937 When did you get in? I didn't know... 117 00:10:05,355 --> 00:10:06,814 Last night. 118 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:09,233 This is beautiful. 119 00:10:09,317 --> 00:10:12,194 Why didn't you write me you were coming? 120 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:14,071 I've been assigned to Kaneohe. 121 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:18,200 Well, I'll finally get to see something of you. 122 00:10:18,410 --> 00:10:21,954 Three years! You look great, Tom. 123 00:10:22,998 --> 00:10:24,081 Really great. 124 00:10:24,165 --> 00:10:25,749 So do you, Dad. 125 00:10:31,673 --> 00:10:33,048 Kaneohe, huh? What squadron? 126 00:10:33,466 --> 00:10:34,466 VF-8. 127 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:37,928 You'll like it out there. 128 00:10:38,263 --> 00:10:41,765 Your CO used to be my wingman when we were flying off the old Langley. 129 00:10:43,768 --> 00:10:45,352 Could we talk somewhere? 130 00:10:45,729 --> 00:10:47,604 Sure. Here. 131 00:10:55,196 --> 00:10:58,324 I phoned you from Guam, the day you graduated. 132 00:10:58,408 --> 00:11:00,492 Yeah, I heard later. 133 00:11:00,577 --> 00:11:02,619 Sorry I missed the call. 134 00:11:03,788 --> 00:11:06,123 I guess your mother was there. 135 00:11:06,958 --> 00:11:08,083 Yeah. 136 00:11:08,168 --> 00:11:09,543 How is she? 137 00:11:11,713 --> 00:11:14,173 Recovered from the divorce, I guess. 138 00:11:14,257 --> 00:11:15,758 Oh, that's good. 139 00:11:16,801 --> 00:11:19,053 I was hoping maybe we could... 140 00:11:19,137 --> 00:11:20,346 Dad... 141 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:28,395 I've fallen in love with a Japanese girl. 142 00:11:30,231 --> 00:11:32,066 I want to marry her. 143 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,237 I need your help. 144 00:11:40,075 --> 00:11:42,159 I damn well guess you do, tiger. 145 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,954 She's been arrested here in Honolulu. 146 00:11:47,082 --> 00:11:48,874 How the hell did you manage that? 147 00:11:48,958 --> 00:11:51,210 Training in San Diego and getting mixed up 148 00:11:51,294 --> 00:11:53,420 with a Japanese girl here in Honolulu? 149 00:11:54,005 --> 00:11:56,090 She was a student at San Diego State. I met her there. 150 00:11:56,299 --> 00:11:59,259 Wait a minute. She was arrested here in Honolulu? 151 00:11:59,511 --> 00:12:00,719 Her parents live here. 152 00:12:00,804 --> 00:12:04,098 She wouldn't marry me without their consent, so she came out to see them. 153 00:12:04,891 --> 00:12:07,851 Apparently, the FBI has some sort of information on her folks, 154 00:12:07,936 --> 00:12:09,978 so the Army picked her up, too. 155 00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:11,313 Well, that figures. 156 00:12:11,815 --> 00:12:13,607 Haruko was born here. 157 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:15,609 She's as loyal as either you or me. 158 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:18,570 Anyway, 159 00:12:18,905 --> 00:12:22,825 the minute I got in, I went off to see where they're being held. 160 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:25,119 She wouldn't see me. 161 00:12:25,412 --> 00:12:26,495 Why not? 162 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:27,621 I don't know. 163 00:12:29,707 --> 00:12:32,167 But I did find out that she and her parents are gonna be sent back 164 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:34,628 to the mainland in a few days. 165 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:40,426 Sticks in your throat, doesn't it, 166 00:12:40,510 --> 00:12:42,010 my wanting to marry a Japanese girl? 167 00:12:42,095 --> 00:12:46,598 Sticks in your... Look, don't give me any of that racial bigot crap. 168 00:12:47,058 --> 00:12:48,934 I don't care what color your girl is. 169 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:50,018 That's not the point... 170 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:52,062 Christ Almighty! 171 00:12:52,647 --> 00:12:56,692 Six months after Pearl Harbor. Boy, you have one lousy sense of timing. 172 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:04,491 What's her name? 173 00:13:04,576 --> 00:13:06,994 I'll see if I can get hold of the FBI report on her. 174 00:13:07,078 --> 00:13:09,997 I wrote it down for you. Haruko Sakura. 175 00:13:13,126 --> 00:13:14,960 But promise me one thing, 176 00:13:15,044 --> 00:13:16,295 just don't do anything stupid 177 00:13:16,379 --> 00:13:19,381 till I see what I can get hold of on this, huh? 178 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:21,258 That's a deal. 179 00:13:53,041 --> 00:13:57,794 In my opinion, this entire plan is not only unnecessary, 180 00:13:57,879 --> 00:13:59,922 but doomed to fail. 181 00:14:00,006 --> 00:14:02,841 Admiral Kondo, Operation M-I has been conceived 182 00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:05,552 by our most brilliant strategist. 183 00:14:05,637 --> 00:14:08,138 We are all aware of Captain Kuroshima's 184 00:14:08,223 --> 00:14:11,475 authorship, Commander, and his reputation. 185 00:14:12,143 --> 00:14:16,104 But this time, the God of operations has conceived a monster. 186 00:14:18,274 --> 00:14:19,650 Would you please explain, sir? 187 00:14:20,151 --> 00:14:23,987 How am I expected to land my invasion forces on Midway, 188 00:14:24,072 --> 00:14:28,283 unless the enemy airfields and shore batteries have been neutralized? 189 00:14:28,535 --> 00:14:31,703 Sir, you've heard Admiral Nagumo say that his carriers 190 00:14:31,788 --> 00:14:34,206 will obliterate the American defenses at Midway. 191 00:14:34,332 --> 00:14:36,750 The enemy's land-based bombers 192 00:14:36,834 --> 00:14:39,670 have a range of at least 400 miles more 193 00:14:39,754 --> 00:14:41,838 than Nagumo's carrier planes. 194 00:14:42,006 --> 00:14:44,049 His ships would be blown out of the sea 195 00:14:44,133 --> 00:14:46,343 before he could launch his attack. 196 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:49,763 I took my carriers to Hawaii, where the risk was far greater 197 00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:52,349 and destroyed the American fleet. 198 00:14:52,433 --> 00:14:55,143 Where were the enemy land-based bombers then? 199 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:58,021 That was then, Nagumo, not now. 200 00:14:58,106 --> 00:15:01,608 A surprise attack with a carrier task force is one thing. 201 00:15:01,693 --> 00:15:05,153 But this, a strike against Midway and the Aleutians 202 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:08,615 with 200 ships and 100,000 men. 203 00:15:12,495 --> 00:15:15,872 Does the idea of taking the Aleutians 204 00:15:15,957 --> 00:15:18,000 cause you any concern, Hosogaya? 205 00:15:18,876 --> 00:15:20,085 No, sir. 206 00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:24,381 But an operation so large, so complex, 207 00:15:24,841 --> 00:15:26,925 I'd like more time to study it. 208 00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:29,261 After all, in a matter of hours, 209 00:15:29,345 --> 00:15:31,179 our Coral Sea operation will be starting. 210 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,141 We have sufficient forces for both. 211 00:15:34,809 --> 00:15:38,478 I tend to agree with Admirals Kondo and Hosogaya, sir. 212 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:44,568 May I suggest we meet again after the Coral Sea campaign? 213 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:47,571 Very well. 214 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,324 Meanwhile, gentlemen, please consider this, 215 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:53,660 the Americans are still unprepared and outnumbered. 216 00:15:53,786 --> 00:15:56,872 If their fleet, particularly their aircraft carriers, 217 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:58,832 can be lured into battle and defeated, 218 00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:03,128 they will then have no significant naval force left in the Pacific. 219 00:16:03,212 --> 00:16:05,380 They will be compelled to sue for peace. 220 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:09,885 I have traveled widely in America, my friends. 221 00:16:10,511 --> 00:16:13,722 Their industrial might is awesome. 222 00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:17,768 I'm convinced our only hope for victory 223 00:16:18,186 --> 00:16:21,104 is one massive strike at Midway. 224 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:55,055 Say, Joe, what about this hot information of yours? 225 00:16:55,139 --> 00:16:56,390 You sure it can't wait? 226 00:16:56,474 --> 00:16:58,809 I already got one headache for the boss. 227 00:16:58,893 --> 00:17:00,936 I consider this urgent. 228 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:03,063 And you were right about Coral Sea. 229 00:17:03,147 --> 00:17:05,023 That's where the Japs were, all right. 230 00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:07,025 Every ship on your list was there. 231 00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:08,777 Did we get hurt? 232 00:17:09,153 --> 00:17:10,654 We got hurt. 233 00:17:18,913 --> 00:17:21,707 Welcome home, Admiral. How was your flight? 234 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:24,209 Long and strewn with potholes. 235 00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:25,669 Got Fletcher's Coral Sea report? 236 00:17:25,753 --> 00:17:26,753 Right here, sir. 237 00:17:26,838 --> 00:17:27,879 Right. 238 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:38,724 Get in the back, Joe. But wait till I cue you in. 239 00:17:45,773 --> 00:17:48,567 Here's Admiral Fletcher's preliminary report, sir. 240 00:17:48,651 --> 00:17:50,944 We lost the Lexington. 241 00:17:52,780 --> 00:17:54,823 What did we do to the enemy? 242 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:56,742 We sank one of their light carriers, 243 00:17:56,826 --> 00:17:58,368 one of their big first-line jobs 244 00:17:58,453 --> 00:18:00,203 and some of their smaller ships. 245 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:03,331 Looks like we just about broke even, Admiral. 246 00:18:04,125 --> 00:18:07,711 We can't trade the Japanese carrier for carrier, Matt. 247 00:18:08,504 --> 00:18:11,506 We started out with a three-to-one superiority. 248 00:18:12,508 --> 00:18:15,844 With the Lexington gone, the Saratoga laid up, 249 00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:19,389 all we've got is Hornet, Enterprise and the Yorktown 250 00:18:19,474 --> 00:18:21,183 to counter Yamamoto's next move. 251 00:18:21,267 --> 00:18:25,479 Sir, Yorktown was heavily damaged at Coral Sea. 252 00:18:25,563 --> 00:18:27,856 There's the follow-up report. 253 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:34,654 Admiral, Commander Rochefort has something urgent, he says. 254 00:18:34,781 --> 00:18:38,116 It's about Objective AF, sir, the meaning of AF. 255 00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:42,037 Now, our listening posts have been picking up lot of traffic 256 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:44,331 between Yamamoto's flag commanders. 257 00:18:44,415 --> 00:18:46,708 There has been a very heavy volume of traffic, sir, 258 00:18:46,793 --> 00:18:50,420 with recurrent references to Objective AF and... What was it? 259 00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:51,963 AO. AO. Yeah. 260 00:18:52,048 --> 00:18:54,800 AO is still a mystery, Admiral, maybe a diversion. 261 00:18:54,884 --> 00:18:57,135 But I think we've identified Objective AF. 262 00:18:57,220 --> 00:18:58,595 It's Midway. 263 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:01,097 Now, it had us really stymied there, 264 00:19:01,182 --> 00:19:04,017 until one of my men remembered an enemy intercept 265 00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:05,769 we decoded last March. 266 00:19:05,853 --> 00:19:07,479 Now, a Jap reconnaissance pilot 267 00:19:07,563 --> 00:19:10,190 radioed his base that he's passing close to AF. 268 00:19:10,274 --> 00:19:13,735 Now, we've plotted every possible course his plane might have taken, 269 00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:15,904 and the only appreciable landmass 270 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:18,031 he could have overflown at the time was Midway. 271 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:19,157 Joe! 272 00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:20,325 I know it's thin. 273 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:22,994 Thin? Damn near invisible! 274 00:19:23,204 --> 00:19:26,206 But I figured out a way to confirm it, sir. 275 00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:29,417 If you'll have this flown to Midway. 276 00:19:30,253 --> 00:19:32,128 It's a fake message, Admiral, 277 00:19:32,213 --> 00:19:36,132 reporting that Midway's freshwater condenser's broken down. 278 00:19:36,801 --> 00:19:38,844 Now, it should be transmitted in the clear, 279 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:40,178 so there can't be any question about 280 00:19:40,263 --> 00:19:42,764 Japanese operators getting every word of it. 281 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,017 Instruct Midway to include that 282 00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:48,520 in their housekeeping traffic tomorrow. 283 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,022 Aye-aye, sir. 284 00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:18,717 Send this right away. 285 00:20:19,886 --> 00:20:22,429 Hey, Chief! What's this? 286 00:20:23,556 --> 00:20:26,057 There ain't nothing wrong with our freshwater condenser! 287 00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:27,309 I was just over there. 288 00:20:27,602 --> 00:20:29,436 Dombrowski, send it. 289 00:20:33,941 --> 00:20:37,527 Christ, I think the goddamn heat's getting to everybody here. 290 00:20:55,671 --> 00:20:59,549 Have this intercept coded and transmitted to fleet headquarters! 291 00:21:29,372 --> 00:21:31,873 They took the bait, Admiral. 292 00:21:31,958 --> 00:21:35,502 Rochefort's just decoded a transmission from Kwajalein 293 00:21:35,586 --> 00:21:36,962 to Yamamoto's fleet headquarters. 294 00:21:37,421 --> 00:21:41,424 Reads, "AF is having trouble with its freshwater condenser." 295 00:21:41,509 --> 00:21:43,051 AF has to be Midway Island. 296 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:48,556 Be at my office at 0500, Matt. 297 00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:50,016 I'm calling in the whole staff. 298 00:21:50,101 --> 00:21:51,685 Aye-aye, sir. 299 00:21:52,728 --> 00:21:55,730 This is how I expect the battle to develop. 300 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,567 The northern force, under Admiral Hosogaya, will strike here 301 00:21:59,652 --> 00:22:01,569 in the Aleutians as a diversion. 302 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:05,824 To keep Nimitz's attention away from our main objective. 303 00:22:06,492 --> 00:22:09,494 He will not realize our objective is Midway 304 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:14,249 until 24 hours later, when Admiral Nagumo's carriers strike the island 305 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:16,876 and destroy the American planes and shore batteries. 306 00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:21,673 At that hour you move in, Kondo, with your invasion forces. 307 00:22:21,924 --> 00:22:24,134 Nimitz will be forced to respond. 308 00:22:24,218 --> 00:22:26,553 He will have to commit the balance of his fleet, 309 00:22:26,637 --> 00:22:29,389 most certainly his carriers, to repel the invasion. 310 00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:33,268 His carrier commander will undoubtedly be Admiral Halsey. 311 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:39,607 I have studied his tactics and I have studied the man. 312 00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:41,860 Halsey is courageous, tough-minded 313 00:22:41,944 --> 00:22:43,403 and not afraid to take risks, 314 00:22:43,487 --> 00:22:46,239 but these strengths, we will turn against him. 315 00:22:46,323 --> 00:22:47,907 It will take Halsey's task force 316 00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:50,326 at least 48 hours to reach Midway. 317 00:22:50,411 --> 00:22:51,828 By that time, Admiral Nagumo, 318 00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:54,581 you'll have crushed Midway and be waiting for him. 319 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,710 YAMAMOTO: You'll have the advantage of position, 320 00:22:58,794 --> 00:23:02,630 and at least a two-to-one superiority in carriers, 321 00:23:02,882 --> 00:23:07,135 and four to five times the number of screening vessels. 322 00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:10,180 All of this is based on the assumption that the American fleet 323 00:23:10,264 --> 00:23:13,516 will still be guarding the Hawaiian Islands when we make our strike. 324 00:23:13,601 --> 00:23:16,269 Nimitz is crippled and on the defensive. 325 00:23:16,353 --> 00:23:18,271 He must deploy his remaining strength 326 00:23:18,355 --> 00:23:20,440 around his most valuable Pacific base. 327 00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:23,026 I agree with Admiral Nagumo, sir. 328 00:23:23,194 --> 00:23:26,362 We must make certain where the enemy fleet is. 329 00:23:26,489 --> 00:23:30,533 May I propose that on the 29th, we send two flying boats 330 00:23:30,618 --> 00:23:33,495 from Kwajalein to French Frigate Shoals. 331 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,623 We fuel them by tanker submarine 332 00:23:36,707 --> 00:23:39,167 and fly them to Pearl Harbor on the 30th. 333 00:23:39,502 --> 00:23:43,838 Let them report whether or not the American fleet is actually there. 334 00:23:44,215 --> 00:23:46,758 A very wise precaution indeed. 335 00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:48,510 We will call it Operation K. 336 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:51,137 Does anyone have any other thoughts? 337 00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:53,098 NAGUMO: Yes. 338 00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:57,936 We can achieve a great victory, 339 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:01,564 providing Nimitz and Halsey do exactly what you expect. 340 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,779 The Enterprise and the Hornet 341 00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:09,697 are due in the harbor by sundown, sir. 342 00:24:09,782 --> 00:24:11,324 The rest of Admiral Halsey's task force 343 00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:12,700 should be in sometime by the morning. 344 00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:15,203 It's the Yorktown we're worried about. 345 00:24:15,287 --> 00:24:16,871 She's more severely damaged than we thought. 346 00:24:17,164 --> 00:24:18,957 How soon can we expect to dry-dock her? 347 00:24:19,125 --> 00:24:20,125 By the 17th, 348 00:24:20,209 --> 00:24:24,045 if a Jap sub doesn't spot the oil she's trailing and track her down. 349 00:24:24,588 --> 00:24:27,882 Admiral Fletcher just radioed in his repair list. 350 00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:31,594 Call the yard commander, 351 00:24:31,679 --> 00:24:35,348 tell him I want every workman he can muster standing by to board her. 352 00:24:35,933 --> 00:24:38,226 That sharpshooter from Washington has just landed, sir. 353 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,477 Be here in 30 minutes. 354 00:24:39,562 --> 00:24:40,603 Who did they send? 355 00:24:40,688 --> 00:24:42,021 Captain Vinton Maddox. 356 00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:43,523 Maddox. 357 00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:45,233 He's a goddamn scalp hunter. 358 00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:47,819 See that he's thoroughly briefed, get Captain Garth over here. 359 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,404 Aye-aye, sir. 360 00:24:50,281 --> 00:24:53,158 Admiral, why don't you let me handle it? 361 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:56,953 No, he's entitled to a crack at me. Phone that in. 362 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,042 You tested those electric arming switches? 363 00:25:03,127 --> 00:25:06,045 No, we still got some damn snafu in the circuitry. 364 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:09,215 You get them all working and I mean 100%, Commander, 365 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,926 or I want them ripped out of every SBD in the squadron. 366 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:13,011 Is that clear? 367 00:25:13,095 --> 00:25:14,095 Yes, sir. 368 00:25:14,263 --> 00:25:15,638 Get to it. 369 00:25:21,896 --> 00:25:23,855 Sorry to drag you out of bed at this hour, Tom, 370 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:26,316 but it may be the only chance we'll get to talk for a few days. 371 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,234 It's okay. Did you get the reports? 372 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:29,444 Yup. 373 00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:31,404 I've already read it. 374 00:25:35,951 --> 00:25:37,285 Did you know your girl belonged 375 00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:40,371 to those Japanese patriotic organizations? 376 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:46,502 I saw some magazines around the apartment, 377 00:25:46,587 --> 00:25:48,296 but I thought it was propaganda. 378 00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:51,841 Well, the Attorney General's office says it's subversive. 379 00:25:51,926 --> 00:25:54,135 And the FBI doesn't think she's telling the truth 380 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:57,180 about why she suddenly showed up here in Pearl either. 381 00:25:57,264 --> 00:25:59,057 I guess you can't blame them for that. 382 00:25:59,141 --> 00:26:02,227 Sure I can! And I can sure as hell straighten them out, too. 383 00:26:02,311 --> 00:26:05,146 Look, mister, why don't you cool down and let me handle this? 384 00:26:07,024 --> 00:26:09,275 Tom, I don't have a lot of time to fool around here. 385 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,319 You asked me to help you. Do you want me to or not? 386 00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:15,406 Well, I guess, I don't really have any alternative, do I, sir? 387 00:26:15,866 --> 00:26:17,283 I guess you don't. 388 00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:25,667 Captain Maddox, Admiral Nimitz. 389 00:26:26,043 --> 00:26:27,335 Great pleasure, sir. 390 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,170 Shall we get right to it, Captain? 391 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:31,089 Certainly, Admiral. 392 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,174 I'm sure you're aware of Washington's opinion 393 00:26:33,259 --> 00:26:35,593 about this Midway invasion business. 394 00:26:35,678 --> 00:26:38,263 Yes. They think it's an enemy ruse. 395 00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:40,723 An elaborate phoney, sir. 396 00:26:40,975 --> 00:26:42,225 Go on. 397 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:44,936 Could we speak in private? 398 00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:46,312 If you'd feel more comfortable. 399 00:26:46,397 --> 00:26:47,522 Thank you. 400 00:26:56,991 --> 00:26:59,993 Admiral, these enemy radio intercepts 401 00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:02,370 that your intelligence unit has been accumulating... 402 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:04,205 Very detailed, aren't they? 403 00:27:04,290 --> 00:27:06,165 Too damn detailed, Admiral. 404 00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,584 Do you remember what happened just before December 7th? 405 00:27:08,669 --> 00:27:11,462 The Japanese flooded the airways with fake messages. 406 00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:13,214 Yes, these could be carbon copies. 407 00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:16,634 Washington's convinced that Yamamoto's feeding this stuff to you 408 00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:18,469 in order to cover his real intentions. 409 00:27:18,554 --> 00:27:20,722 Very definite possibility. 410 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:22,932 Well, then, sir, how can you still insist... 411 00:27:23,017 --> 00:27:25,852 Because it's my judgment this information is factual. 412 00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:28,730 I am convinced Yamamoto's target is Midway. 413 00:27:29,356 --> 00:27:31,524 But if you're wrong, Admiral, 414 00:27:31,608 --> 00:27:35,069 if you send our carriers into a Japanese ambush, 415 00:27:35,154 --> 00:27:37,905 the entire West Coast and Hawaiian Islands will be wide open for invasion. 416 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,241 I'm fully aware of that, Captain. 417 00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:44,329 You're saying the safe play is to defend the home folks first. 418 00:27:45,581 --> 00:27:49,250 With respects, Admiral, it's the smart play. 419 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:58,176 Captain, if we surprise the enemy, 420 00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:01,012 catch him where he doesn't think we'll be, 421 00:28:01,096 --> 00:28:03,681 we can drive him back 3,000 miles. 422 00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:06,309 And keep him pinned till we're ready 423 00:28:06,393 --> 00:28:08,770 to take him on in his own front yard. 424 00:28:09,521 --> 00:28:13,483 Sir, my instructions were to convey Washington's deep concern 425 00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:14,901 for the safety of the West Coast 426 00:28:14,985 --> 00:28:17,153 and the Hawaiian Islands. That is if you... 427 00:28:17,237 --> 00:28:19,072 Captain Maddox, is Washington ordering me 428 00:28:19,156 --> 00:28:21,532 to defend against an attack here or the West Coast? 429 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,787 No, sir. My orders were simply to consult. 430 00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:29,624 No, sir, I have no such orders for you. 431 00:28:31,418 --> 00:28:35,171 Commander Blake, declare a state of fleet-opposed invasion. 432 00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:36,714 Target: Midway Island. 433 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:38,007 Issue the order immediately. 434 00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:39,384 Aye-aye, sir. 435 00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:41,928 Admiral, may I see you alone a moment, sir? 436 00:28:42,012 --> 00:28:43,888 Excuse me, Captain. 437 00:28:53,857 --> 00:28:57,902 Damn. You know how much Bill Halsey hates hospitals. 438 00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,904 Well, maybe it's not that serious, sir. 439 00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:02,824 If he scheduled himself to go anywhere near one, 440 00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:06,661 I'm sure it's not only damn serious, it's probably critical. 441 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:10,123 Admiral, I got some really bad news. 442 00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:11,749 Today is the day for it. 443 00:29:11,834 --> 00:29:14,085 The Japanese changed the J-N25 code, 444 00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:16,671 that's the one that's been giving us Yamamoto's plans. 445 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,006 How long will it take you to unravel their new system? 446 00:29:19,091 --> 00:29:20,883 A month, maybe two. 447 00:29:22,136 --> 00:29:25,304 Sir, do you still want that fleet order issued? 448 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,600 Yes. Target: Midway. 449 00:29:55,752 --> 00:29:58,421 Welcome aboard your flagship, Admiral. 450 00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:00,882 Thank you, Captain. 451 00:30:01,675 --> 00:30:05,511 Rear Admiral Kusaka, meet my Chief of Staff, Captain Aoki. 452 00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:09,307 And where's Commander Genda? 453 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:12,435 He's in sick bay, sir. Influenza. 454 00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,564 When does the doctor think he'll be able resume his duties? 455 00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:18,024 In two or three days, sir. 456 00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,277 I don't like this idea of beginning this operation 457 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:23,321 without my best air commander. 458 00:30:23,405 --> 00:30:26,699 Sir, we have one other sickbay casualty, Commander Fuchida. 459 00:30:26,783 --> 00:30:28,826 He came down with appendicitis this morning. 460 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:30,620 Fuchida, too? 461 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,457 We'll need a replacement. 462 00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:36,667 Genda suggests a veteran torpedo pilot 463 00:30:36,752 --> 00:30:39,337 aboard the Hiryu, Lieutenant Tomonaga. 464 00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:44,759 If Genda says so, I want to see Tomonaga as soon as possible. 465 00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:46,636 Yes, sir. 466 00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:56,938 Fuchida, the man who led my first air strike at Pearl Harbor, out. 467 00:30:57,397 --> 00:30:59,815 Genda, who planned it, both ill. 468 00:31:02,486 --> 00:31:05,613 Very bad luck, Kusaka, very bad luck. 469 00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:09,825 Only an inconvenience, sir. We'll manage. 470 00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:53,119 Good morning, sir. Lieutenant. 471 00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:55,079 Follow me, please. 472 00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:14,932 Here we are, sir. The Sakura family. 473 00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:16,517 Yes. Thank you, Lieutenant. 474 00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:18,227 I can find my own way out. 475 00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:19,854 Yes, sir. 476 00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:32,617 Miss Sakura, I'm Captain Garth, Tom's father. 477 00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:34,660 Please come in. 478 00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:40,708 My parents, Tetsuro and Sada Sakura. 479 00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:42,627 This is Captain Garth. 480 00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,211 How do you do? 481 00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:46,964 You want to speak to me in private, Captain. 482 00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:48,883 My parents understand. 483 00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:51,761 Yes. Well, thank you. 484 00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:03,064 If I embarrassed you in there, forgive me, 485 00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:06,150 but I wanted you to meet my parents so you could see for yourself 486 00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:08,944 that they're not much of a threat to national security. 487 00:33:09,029 --> 00:33:11,989 I never really thought they would be, Miss Sakura. 488 00:33:12,074 --> 00:33:14,617 I suppose it goes with the times. 489 00:33:15,577 --> 00:33:17,703 And I shouldn't be bitter? 490 00:33:19,122 --> 00:33:20,831 I never said that. 491 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,334 Damn it, I'm an American! 492 00:33:24,044 --> 00:33:28,339 What makes us different from German-Americans or Italian-Americans? 493 00:33:29,216 --> 00:33:30,841 Pearl Harbor, I guess. 494 00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:38,933 Look, I've read that FBI report. 495 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:40,935 Ask me anything you want to. 496 00:33:41,895 --> 00:33:43,270 All right. 497 00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:45,898 Your father was seen 498 00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:48,734 frequently going into the Japanese consulate. 499 00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:50,945 He has old friends there. 500 00:33:52,531 --> 00:33:53,572 I see. 501 00:33:54,950 --> 00:33:59,453 What about these Japanese patriotic organizations you belong to? 502 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,707 My father enrolled me in those when I was born. 503 00:34:02,791 --> 00:34:06,752 Out of respect for him I never resigned, but I wasn't active. 504 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:08,587 I see. 505 00:34:09,506 --> 00:34:15,136 Those magazines they found in your parents' apartment. What about them? 506 00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:18,347 The Prairie Shimbun? Published in Wyoming. 507 00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:21,767 My father has deep emotional ties for Japan, 508 00:34:21,852 --> 00:34:23,686 but even so 509 00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:26,814 he thought it was a ridiculous propaganda sheet. 510 00:34:27,649 --> 00:34:29,442 Why did he subscribe? 511 00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:33,863 He's a traditional and honorable man. 512 00:34:34,156 --> 00:34:37,533 He was once indebted to the man who publishes the Prairie Shimbun. 513 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,581 Look, Miss Sakura, I understand you came to Hawaii 514 00:34:43,665 --> 00:34:47,710 to ask your parents' permission to marry my son. 515 00:34:49,171 --> 00:34:50,254 Yes, I did. 516 00:34:50,338 --> 00:34:52,298 Why didn't you tell that to the FBI? 517 00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:54,049 I didn't want to implicate Tom. 518 00:34:54,843 --> 00:34:56,302 Well, why won't you see him? 519 00:34:56,386 --> 00:34:59,472 He's in love with you, so he tells me. You won't even talk to him. 520 00:34:59,556 --> 00:35:01,724 He doesn't understand. I don't understand. 521 00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:06,896 Because my parents have forbidden me to marry outside my race. 522 00:35:13,570 --> 00:35:15,738 I want you to tell him for me. 523 00:35:18,492 --> 00:35:22,953 I can't tell him that. He wouldn't believe me in the first place. 524 00:35:23,997 --> 00:35:26,916 Besides, I'd just as soon he didn't know we'd talked together. 525 00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:35,090 Look, Miss Sakura, Haruko, Tom's based at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. 526 00:35:36,885 --> 00:35:39,512 Send for him, please. 527 00:35:40,388 --> 00:35:42,515 You have to tell him this. 528 00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:44,975 You have to tell him. 529 00:36:23,849 --> 00:36:26,559 Damn itching is driving me crazy! 530 00:36:26,643 --> 00:36:30,771 All those medics can do is smear this God-awful paste all over it. 531 00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:32,982 When they get up enough nerve to come in here, you mean. 532 00:36:33,066 --> 00:36:35,693 I know, I know, I'm a son of a bitch of a patient. 533 00:36:35,777 --> 00:36:37,027 But a skin disease! 534 00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:40,739 Of all the stupid, useless things to get laid up with! 535 00:36:40,991 --> 00:36:43,033 It's driving me nuts. I can't even think right. 536 00:36:43,118 --> 00:36:45,494 Bill, I haven't much time. 537 00:36:45,579 --> 00:36:47,204 Fletcher's docking the Yorktown right now, 538 00:36:47,289 --> 00:36:49,790 and I gotta make some hard decisions. 539 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:52,418 I'd like you to recommend your own replacement. 540 00:36:52,669 --> 00:36:53,836 Ray Spruance. 541 00:36:56,506 --> 00:37:00,342 I know. I know he's junior to a lot of other flag officers 542 00:37:00,427 --> 00:37:02,386 and he never served a day on a carrier. 543 00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:04,805 But, Chet, he knows carrier tactics. 544 00:37:08,101 --> 00:37:11,061 Well, you asked for my recommendation. 545 00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:16,650 I can just picture Washington's reaction 546 00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:20,738 if I hand over the Enterprise and Hornet to a cruiser skipper. 547 00:37:21,531 --> 00:37:23,532 Especially after all the static I've been getting 548 00:37:23,617 --> 00:37:26,160 about going out looking for the Japanese at Midway. 549 00:37:27,329 --> 00:37:31,540 You told me once, Chet, "When you're in command, command." 550 00:37:33,919 --> 00:37:35,836 Admiral Fletcher, sir. 551 00:37:35,921 --> 00:37:37,922 Reporting as ordered, sir. 552 00:37:38,089 --> 00:37:42,051 Welcome home, Jack. And congratulations on bringing your cripple in. 553 00:37:42,135 --> 00:37:43,928 Well, we got lucky. 554 00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:47,222 We haven't much time, so I'll give it to you fast. 555 00:37:47,307 --> 00:37:49,850 Halsey's beached, in the hospital. 556 00:37:50,727 --> 00:37:53,020 Won't be leaving for a while. 557 00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:56,231 I'm sending you out again, Jack, in 72 hours. 558 00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:58,943 Back to sea, full combat readiness. 559 00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:00,611 But, Chet, that's impossible! 560 00:38:00,695 --> 00:38:02,196 It'll be at least three months 561 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,114 before the Yorktown's back in full commission. 562 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:06,283 I'm giving Ray Spruance Halsey's command. 563 00:38:06,368 --> 00:38:08,953 He'll be taking the Enterprise and Hornet to sea tomorrow. 564 00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:10,621 You'll follow him 48 hours later. 565 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:13,332 Ray Spruance is a cruiser commander. 566 00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:15,084 He knows carrier tactics. 567 00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:16,377 Yeah, but he can't fly. 568 00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:17,878 Neither can you. 569 00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:22,549 And he sure as hell can't learn by tomorrow, can he, Jack? 570 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:24,927 No. 571 00:38:26,888 --> 00:38:28,764 Congratulations, Ray. 572 00:38:29,391 --> 00:38:32,101 Well, I'm still in a state of shock. 573 00:38:32,352 --> 00:38:33,852 Nice seeing you again, Matt. How's the hand? 574 00:38:33,937 --> 00:38:35,437 Coming fine, now, sir. Good. 575 00:38:35,563 --> 00:38:37,314 We could have used you at Coral Sea. Thank you, sir. 576 00:38:37,399 --> 00:38:39,149 You've got him for this one, Jack. 577 00:38:39,234 --> 00:38:40,401 He's going out with you on the Yorktown 578 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:41,860 to join your air operation staff. 579 00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:43,070 Good. 580 00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:48,200 This time, we're up against the biggest force the enemy has ever sortied, 581 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,119 more than 200 ships. 582 00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:53,497 Got a four-to-one supremacy over us. 583 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:55,833 Yamamoto himself is commanding. 584 00:38:56,751 --> 00:39:00,629 We know when and from where each unit sailed. 585 00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:03,674 We know their original courses, 586 00:39:03,758 --> 00:39:06,135 but we don't know where they'll rendezvous 587 00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:09,680 or what changes they will make or when they'll strike. 588 00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:12,808 My best guess is they'll hit Midway from the northwest, 589 00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:15,728 but there's no intelligence to support that. 590 00:39:16,021 --> 00:39:19,982 Ray, assuming what you see here isn't just an elaborate ruse, 591 00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:24,236 Washington thinks it is, but assuming they're wrong, 592 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,822 what counter moves do you suggest? 593 00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:36,331 I'd take my carriers up here to a point northeast of Midway, 594 00:39:37,042 --> 00:39:39,710 lie there and wait for Nagumo's carriers. 595 00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:42,671 Why not head northwest, hit them head-on? 596 00:39:43,465 --> 00:39:46,008 You know, there's just a chance that Washington may be right. 597 00:39:46,718 --> 00:39:49,762 You think Hawaii and the West Coast could be the real target? 598 00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:51,013 Well, it really doesn't matter, 599 00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:53,015 provided I'm in a position to cut them off, 600 00:39:53,099 --> 00:39:55,017 if they do move east. 601 00:39:56,644 --> 00:39:59,146 If it's Midway, I'll bushwhack them. 602 00:39:59,564 --> 00:40:01,565 All right. Jack, you're senior. 603 00:40:01,649 --> 00:40:03,817 You'll take overall command when you two join up. 604 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:05,235 Yes, sir. 605 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,156 The Yorktown will be at sea in less than 72 hours. 606 00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:12,534 I don't need to dwell on the fact that 607 00:40:12,994 --> 00:40:15,287 Yamamoto outweighs us in every department. 608 00:40:15,371 --> 00:40:16,955 Our three carriers and their escorts 609 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,709 are all that stands between the enemy fleet and the American coastline. 610 00:40:21,461 --> 00:40:24,963 Now, about your point of rendezvous, what should we call it? 611 00:40:25,965 --> 00:40:27,007 Point Luck. 612 00:40:28,676 --> 00:40:29,760 Sir. 613 00:40:30,553 --> 00:40:34,264 Sounds like a prayer, Mr. Wold, but it's damned appropriate. 614 00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:37,142 Son of a bitch! Nurse! 615 00:40:38,812 --> 00:40:39,895 Ray. 616 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:41,313 Hi, Bill. 617 00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:44,942 Just about to call the nurse to try to get somebody to cut that tree down. 618 00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,444 It spoils my view of the boatyard. 619 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:51,115 Well, how you feeling? 620 00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:53,158 I can't sleep. I can't eat. 621 00:40:53,243 --> 00:40:56,620 Just sit around scratching myself, 24 hours a day. 622 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:59,039 Did you ever try an oatmeal water bath? 623 00:40:59,124 --> 00:41:00,124 Don't. 624 00:41:01,126 --> 00:41:03,252 I want to thank you for recommending me 625 00:41:03,336 --> 00:41:05,170 to take your task force to sea. 626 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:06,964 Now, I have a question for you. 627 00:41:07,549 --> 00:41:09,508 Did that itch go to your head? 628 00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:13,720 Stop underestimating yourself, Ray. 629 00:41:14,222 --> 00:41:17,933 Any skipper who can keep his cruisers and destroyers alongside of my carriers 630 00:41:18,017 --> 00:41:20,477 from one end of the Pacific to the other 631 00:41:20,562 --> 00:41:22,354 is definitely the man for the job. 632 00:41:22,689 --> 00:41:26,567 You know, you and I are... Well, you know, we're kind of... 633 00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:29,903 Bill, we're kind of different. 634 00:41:31,156 --> 00:41:33,615 Do you think I can pull it off the same way you could have? 635 00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:37,411 I can only tell you this, Ray. 636 00:41:37,495 --> 00:41:38,745 You play it the way you feel it, 637 00:41:38,830 --> 00:41:41,248 not the way you think I'd play it. 638 00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:44,459 You go to sea, find Yamamoto and chew his ass. 639 00:41:44,544 --> 00:41:45,919 Now, that's all there is to it. 640 00:41:47,630 --> 00:41:48,672 Right. 641 00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:50,174 Christ, no! You want to catch this? 642 00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:51,925 You want us to lose the goddamn war? 643 00:41:59,058 --> 00:42:00,601 Oh, by the way, 644 00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,021 I'll have somebody cut down that tree for you. 645 00:42:04,564 --> 00:42:05,772 Yeah. 646 00:42:28,213 --> 00:42:32,382 NIMITZ: In carrying out the task assigned in Op Plan 29-42, 647 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,551 the Enterprise and Hornet will be governed 648 00:42:34,636 --> 00:42:37,054 by the principle of calculated risk, 649 00:42:37,305 --> 00:42:40,724 which you'll interpret to mean the avoidance of exposure of your force 650 00:42:40,808 --> 00:42:43,477 to attack by superior enemy forces 651 00:42:43,645 --> 00:42:47,314 without good prospect of inflicting as a result of such exposure 652 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,524 greater damage to the enemy. 653 00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:25,227 Sir, three of the boilers are out of commission. 654 00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:28,897 The yard manager says he's gonna need another two days. 655 00:43:29,107 --> 00:43:32,943 Delaney, I expect the yard to finish the job by 0600 tomorrow. 656 00:43:33,278 --> 00:43:34,861 Aye-aye, sir. 657 00:43:35,863 --> 00:43:38,073 Sorry about your boiler, Jack. 658 00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:40,492 But if you clear Pearl by 0700 659 00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:43,120 you make your rendezvous with Enterprise and Hornet 660 00:43:43,204 --> 00:43:44,413 before Yamamoto hits Midway. 661 00:43:44,497 --> 00:43:45,580 Agreed. 662 00:43:45,707 --> 00:43:46,832 Good luck, good hunting. 663 00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:48,667 Thank you, sir. 664 00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:50,961 You too, Matt. See you back here soon. 665 00:43:51,045 --> 00:43:52,504 Aye-aye, sir. 666 00:43:57,302 --> 00:43:59,720 We just haven't any future, Tom. 667 00:44:01,222 --> 00:44:03,515 I figured that's what it was. 668 00:44:05,018 --> 00:44:06,351 We don't. 669 00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:10,772 We really don't. I wish you'd go now. 670 00:44:12,817 --> 00:44:16,445 I don't love you anymore. It was a mistake. 671 00:44:21,242 --> 00:44:22,909 Say it to my face. 672 00:44:28,916 --> 00:44:31,168 Say it to my face, God damn it! 673 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:47,392 It'll be okay. 674 00:44:51,731 --> 00:44:52,898 Shit. Wait and see. 675 00:44:52,982 --> 00:44:56,777 1919 the Marines were practicing dive-bombing off Haiti, right? 676 00:44:56,861 --> 00:44:59,613 Everybody said, "Well, premature, better wait and see." 677 00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:03,450 We waited, then the Germans showed us in '37 in Madrid. 678 00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:04,576 You mean like at Pearl Harbor? 679 00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:05,660 Pearl Harbor, shit! 680 00:45:05,745 --> 00:45:09,831 Pearl Harbor in '32 and '33, Jocko Clark's squadrons proved 681 00:45:09,916 --> 00:45:12,542 that Pearl Harbor could be attacked successfully from the air. 682 00:45:12,627 --> 00:45:17,047 And Admiral Logan Ramsey said, predicted, it would happen in detail. 683 00:45:17,131 --> 00:45:18,173 When was that? 684 00:45:18,257 --> 00:45:20,133 In 1937, pal. 685 00:45:20,968 --> 00:45:25,138 Wait and see. We waited. December the 7th, we saw. 686 00:45:26,891 --> 00:45:30,644 The wait-and-seers will bust your ass every time. 687 00:45:31,437 --> 00:45:32,771 I'll drink to that. 688 00:45:32,855 --> 00:45:34,022 Bet your... 689 00:45:36,401 --> 00:45:38,026 How long you been down here? 690 00:45:38,111 --> 00:45:42,489 Long enough to hear your lecture, buddy. You ought to go on the radio. 691 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:44,199 How the hell are you? I'm all right. 692 00:45:44,283 --> 00:45:47,202 Well, I'm celebrating my birthday. That's how I am. 693 00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:49,079 That's a problem we all have once a year. 694 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:50,163 Yeah. 695 00:45:50,248 --> 00:45:53,041 My God, now you got my kid flying for you. 696 00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:55,836 Hey, how's the boy doing? 697 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:56,920 Just fine. 698 00:45:57,004 --> 00:45:59,256 He's a good pilot. Got him checked out in the F4Fs. 699 00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:01,925 He'll be shipping out any day now. 700 00:46:03,261 --> 00:46:05,929 Coming from you that means a lot. 701 00:46:06,055 --> 00:46:08,390 No, no. He's a good man, he's a natural pilot, 702 00:46:08,474 --> 00:46:10,892 he's got good attitude, good marksman. 703 00:46:11,978 --> 00:46:16,106 I would say that if Tom has any deficiency it would have to be in... 704 00:46:16,858 --> 00:46:18,525 Enemy identification. 705 00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:22,279 Boy's got to learn, Matt, 706 00:46:22,363 --> 00:46:24,239 you do not win a war by kissing the enemy. 707 00:46:24,323 --> 00:46:25,449 Oh, for Christ's sake... 708 00:46:25,533 --> 00:46:27,909 Hell, everybody knows it. He told the whole goddamn squadron. 709 00:46:27,994 --> 00:46:30,287 Yeah, I met her. She seems like a nice girl. 710 00:46:30,371 --> 00:46:32,414 Well, so was Madame Butterfly a nice girl. 711 00:46:32,498 --> 00:46:34,291 She's having a little trouble with it right now. 712 00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:36,877 Well, we have a little problem forgetting December 7th, don't we? 713 00:46:38,254 --> 00:46:40,046 I got to shove off. 714 00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:43,592 Scuttlebutt says you're going out on the Yorktown. Is that right? 715 00:46:43,676 --> 00:46:45,510 Yeah, that's right. 716 00:46:46,929 --> 00:46:50,474 Listen, keep your dumb ass out of drafts. 717 00:46:50,558 --> 00:46:51,850 Yeah, I'll try, buddy. 718 00:46:52,435 --> 00:46:55,729 Hey, thanks for keeping an eye on my boy. I appreciate it. 719 00:46:57,190 --> 00:46:58,523 He'll be fine, Matt. 720 00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:11,203 Tom! 721 00:47:11,287 --> 00:47:13,413 Nice of you to take the time to see me off, Dad. 722 00:47:13,498 --> 00:47:15,332 But your squadron isn't due to ship out for a week. 723 00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:17,292 What are you doing reporting aboard with this group? 724 00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:20,504 Are you trying to tell me that you're surprised, sir? 725 00:47:20,588 --> 00:47:22,631 Your old buddy Jessop couldn't wait to have me transferred. 726 00:47:22,757 --> 00:47:25,133 Well, I didn't know anything... Like hell you didn't! 727 00:47:25,218 --> 00:47:28,470 You wanted me shipped out, to stop me from doing something stupid. 728 00:47:28,554 --> 00:47:29,971 Like try to keep my girl from going to a camp. 729 00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:31,097 Tom... 730 00:47:31,182 --> 00:47:32,641 So your old buddy Jessop obliged. 731 00:47:32,725 --> 00:47:34,643 I knew absolutely nothing about this. 732 00:47:35,019 --> 00:47:37,312 I have to report aboard now, sir. 733 00:47:58,376 --> 00:47:59,751 Okay, sir. 734 00:48:06,217 --> 00:48:07,384 Captain Garth is here, sir. 735 00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:08,927 PEARSON: Oh, great. Matt. 736 00:48:09,011 --> 00:48:10,929 Come on in here. How the hell are you? Huh? 737 00:48:11,013 --> 00:48:12,514 Harry. 738 00:48:12,598 --> 00:48:15,058 I'm gonna do something I do not do, 739 00:48:15,142 --> 00:48:17,561 at least not since we were in Annapolis. 740 00:48:18,062 --> 00:48:19,479 I'm gonna ask you to do me a favor. 741 00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:23,483 Oh, hell, ask away! Lord knows I owe you a few. 742 00:48:24,277 --> 00:48:28,154 This is one of the Bureau's enemy alien reports. 743 00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:30,824 Where did you get this? 744 00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:32,200 Don't ask. 745 00:48:32,368 --> 00:48:34,286 Matt, I could find out. 746 00:48:34,370 --> 00:48:35,662 Don't, Harry. 747 00:48:40,376 --> 00:48:44,170 I've read the report. It's everything the Bureau's got... 748 00:48:44,255 --> 00:48:45,297 A Japanese? 749 00:48:45,798 --> 00:48:50,552 ...on an American citizen named Haruko Sakura and her parents. 750 00:48:52,096 --> 00:48:56,224 They look okay to me, but, of course, I'm not in your business. 751 00:48:56,309 --> 00:48:58,184 Well, it sounds as though you are. 752 00:49:00,313 --> 00:49:04,024 Harry, I'd like you to investigate this personally. 753 00:49:05,151 --> 00:49:07,527 These people are being sent back to the mainland next week. 754 00:49:08,154 --> 00:49:11,197 If they're clean, and I'm betting they are, 755 00:49:11,449 --> 00:49:13,783 I want that shipment canceled. 756 00:49:13,868 --> 00:49:16,578 Matt, come on, you're way out of line with this. 757 00:49:16,662 --> 00:49:20,248 This is not your department! This is tampering! 758 00:49:26,005 --> 00:49:28,381 All right, what have we got here? 759 00:49:28,466 --> 00:49:30,592 What are these people to you? 760 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:35,722 Someday, the girl may be my daughter-in-law. 761 00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:40,310 Look, this is not only tampering. 762 00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:42,354 You are pressuring a superior officer 763 00:49:42,438 --> 00:49:45,023 to take improper action because of personal reasons. 764 00:49:45,107 --> 00:49:47,484 Improper action, hell! Harry. 765 00:49:47,735 --> 00:49:48,943 I read what's in there. 766 00:49:49,028 --> 00:49:51,279 These people are no more a threat to national security 767 00:49:51,489 --> 00:49:53,406 than your pet Airedale. 768 00:49:56,118 --> 00:49:59,621 All right, I'll have to report this request of yours. 769 00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:01,247 It'll go into your record. 770 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:02,540 It's not for me. 771 00:50:03,793 --> 00:50:06,711 Wouldn't ask you for myself, you know that. 772 00:50:06,921 --> 00:50:09,089 For my kid, I'm asking you. 773 00:50:09,423 --> 00:50:13,468 Jesus Christ, Harry! I'm begging you! 774 00:50:23,646 --> 00:50:26,022 All right, I'll investigate it. 775 00:50:30,111 --> 00:50:31,653 Thanks, Harry. 776 00:50:36,409 --> 00:50:37,951 And, Captain... 777 00:50:40,621 --> 00:50:42,664 This'll wash it with us. 778 00:50:45,668 --> 00:50:46,960 We're even. 779 00:50:48,003 --> 00:50:49,295 Aye-aye, sir. 780 00:51:01,684 --> 00:51:02,976 OFFICER: Captain? 781 00:51:04,979 --> 00:51:06,855 Thank you, Corporal. 782 00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:10,608 Reporting as ordered, sir. 783 00:51:10,693 --> 00:51:13,653 I'm sorry to send the Marines after you, Tom, 784 00:51:13,738 --> 00:51:15,613 but you didn't answer any of my messages. 785 00:51:15,698 --> 00:51:17,949 I didn't feel we had anything to talk about, Captain. 786 00:51:18,284 --> 00:51:20,493 You can cut out that midshipman crap, too. 787 00:51:20,578 --> 00:51:21,995 You're talking to your old man. 788 00:51:22,705 --> 00:51:24,164 I'll try to remember that. 789 00:51:25,374 --> 00:51:26,583 Look, for whatever it's worth, 790 00:51:26,667 --> 00:51:28,084 I'd like to set the record straight. 791 00:51:28,169 --> 00:51:30,044 Before we left Pearl, 792 00:51:30,963 --> 00:51:34,340 I personally vouched for both Haruko and her parents. 793 00:51:34,425 --> 00:51:37,886 I went out on a limb for them, way out. 794 00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:41,514 'Course, I don't know what weight it'll carry, but... 795 00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:43,308 Well, there it is. 796 00:51:44,310 --> 00:51:45,602 Thanks. 797 00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:49,105 Oh, one thing more. 798 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,027 I didn't ask your CO to have you shipped out. 799 00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:55,445 You spoke to him, didn't you? 800 00:51:55,529 --> 00:51:56,529 Yes, I did. 801 00:51:56,614 --> 00:51:59,532 He asked me how I felt about... 802 00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:01,409 Haruko and me, right? 803 00:52:01,494 --> 00:52:04,037 Look, I only had a few days left to help her. 804 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:05,163 If you couldn't do anything, 805 00:52:05,247 --> 00:52:06,289 why couldn't you leave it alone? 806 00:52:06,373 --> 00:52:09,709 Look, Jessop thought he was doing both of us a favor. 807 00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:13,087 I did all I could, and a hell of a lot more than I should've. 808 00:52:13,547 --> 00:52:15,924 You know, you're being paid to fly fighter planes, 809 00:52:16,008 --> 00:52:17,300 not to sit down in your cabin 810 00:52:17,384 --> 00:52:19,302 and cry over your girl's picture. 811 00:52:19,553 --> 00:52:20,970 You better shape up, tiger, 812 00:52:21,055 --> 00:52:24,057 or some hot-shot Jap pilot's gonna flame your ass! 813 00:52:39,198 --> 00:52:41,616 Just received this message, sir. 814 00:52:42,284 --> 00:52:44,661 Operation K, the reconnaissance flight to Pearl Harbor, 815 00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:46,371 has been canceled. 816 00:52:46,455 --> 00:52:48,832 Canceled? Why? 817 00:52:49,208 --> 00:52:51,417 Our scout planes could not be refueled. 818 00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:53,878 There was an enemy vessel at the rendezvous point. 819 00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:59,676 Sir, Admiral Nagumo's carrier force should be warned immediately. 820 00:53:00,135 --> 00:53:02,846 Admiral Nagumo must have picked up the transmission 821 00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:04,472 at the same time we did. 822 00:53:04,557 --> 00:53:05,723 Suppose he didn't. 823 00:53:06,141 --> 00:53:07,767 He will assume Operation K went forward 824 00:53:07,852 --> 00:53:09,769 and that the American carriers are at Pearl Harbor. 825 00:53:09,854 --> 00:53:13,481 And that is where our latest intelligence reports place them. 826 00:53:13,566 --> 00:53:16,442 What latest intelligence reports, Captain? 827 00:53:16,527 --> 00:53:18,361 Have any of our submarines sighted 828 00:53:18,445 --> 00:53:21,197 the American fleet in the last 20 hours? 829 00:53:21,699 --> 00:53:24,117 No, sir. But there is no logical reason 830 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:28,454 for the Americans to have moved their carriers away from Pearl Harbor. 831 00:53:28,664 --> 00:53:31,165 At any rate we must not break radio silence 832 00:53:31,250 --> 00:53:33,877 and risk letting them know where we are. 833 00:53:34,003 --> 00:53:35,879 Sir, the element of surprise 834 00:53:35,963 --> 00:53:39,173 is one of the most important aspects of our attack. 835 00:53:57,526 --> 00:53:59,319 BLAKE: Admiral, this is our search plan. 836 00:54:00,029 --> 00:54:03,072 An air search involving 22 PBYs, 837 00:54:03,157 --> 00:54:05,950 each plane to fly a spoke 700 miles out, 838 00:54:06,035 --> 00:54:07,952 covering an eight-degree sector. 839 00:54:08,037 --> 00:54:09,454 That'll give us a 180-degree look 840 00:54:09,538 --> 00:54:10,830 at anything coming in from the west, 841 00:54:11,290 --> 00:54:13,833 and still leave us an excellent flanking area northeast of Midway 842 00:54:13,918 --> 00:54:15,001 for our carriers. 843 00:54:15,085 --> 00:54:17,128 Have it put into operation immediately. 844 00:54:17,212 --> 00:54:18,671 Aye-aye, sir. 845 00:55:32,705 --> 00:55:35,456 Jesus, how many of those can you eat? 846 00:56:06,238 --> 00:56:08,865 Admiral, air search report. 847 00:56:12,619 --> 00:56:14,120 No sightings. 848 00:56:16,165 --> 00:56:19,042 Is there any defense measure we've overlooked? 849 00:56:19,126 --> 00:56:20,460 Anything Midway needs. 850 00:56:20,544 --> 00:56:22,879 They've had top priority, Admiral. 851 00:56:22,963 --> 00:56:24,505 We've sent them everything we can scrape up. 852 00:56:24,590 --> 00:56:27,925 Tanks, PT boats, barb wire, anti-aircraft guns... 853 00:56:29,136 --> 00:56:32,263 Yeah, and it's miserable waiting here for an attack on your own people, 854 00:56:32,347 --> 00:56:34,390 hoping to hell it happens. 855 00:56:34,475 --> 00:56:36,142 More pressure from Washington, sir? 856 00:56:36,226 --> 00:56:37,810 Not a whisper. 857 00:56:37,895 --> 00:56:40,730 Frankly, I'd rather have them raising hell. 858 00:57:01,502 --> 00:57:03,336 Captain. What's the count, Red? 859 00:57:03,504 --> 00:57:06,005 I can put up half a dozen F4Fs and 15 Buffaloes. 860 00:57:06,673 --> 00:57:07,673 Damned relics. 861 00:57:07,841 --> 00:57:09,550 We'll let the Japs know we're up there, sir. 862 00:57:09,635 --> 00:57:10,760 Maybe we'll get lucky. 863 00:57:11,303 --> 00:57:12,720 Okay, Red. 864 00:57:29,696 --> 00:57:32,949 In less than five hours, Hosogaya will attack the Aleutians, 865 00:57:33,033 --> 00:57:36,994 and we will still be groping toward Midway in this filthy squall. 866 00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:41,874 We're not due to launch our first air strike for another 36 hours, sir. 867 00:57:41,959 --> 00:57:44,877 Our predictions are for clear weather before then, Admiral. 868 00:57:45,546 --> 00:57:49,841 I keep wondering, Kusaka, what did Operation K uncover at Pearl Harbor? 869 00:57:50,092 --> 00:57:52,260 Were the American carriers there? 870 00:57:52,678 --> 00:57:54,929 We've heard nothing from Admiral Yamamoto. 871 00:57:55,013 --> 00:57:58,724 That could only mean the American carriers are still in Hawaiian waters. 872 00:58:01,186 --> 00:58:03,521 Damned communications blackout! 873 00:58:14,324 --> 00:58:17,410 Hey, you guys! The Japs are bombing Dutch Harbor! 874 00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:19,745 Here we go. 875 00:58:23,417 --> 00:58:25,042 Welcome aboard. 876 00:58:31,091 --> 00:58:34,260 Well, gentlemen, it's started. Signal Spruance. 877 00:58:41,602 --> 00:58:44,729 The Aleutian Islands are being invaded, Admiral. 878 00:58:51,445 --> 00:58:53,863 Washington could still be right. 879 00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:56,949 This could be just a feint for attack on the West Coast 880 00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:58,951 or right here in Hawaii. 881 00:59:00,162 --> 00:59:02,121 Or what we've defended against. 882 00:59:02,706 --> 00:59:04,165 Today. 883 00:59:04,583 --> 00:59:06,876 Our PBY should tell us today. 884 00:59:26,897 --> 00:59:27,980 Hey. 885 00:59:29,816 --> 00:59:31,609 Do you see what I see? 886 00:59:34,488 --> 00:59:36,322 You're damn right I do! 887 00:59:37,866 --> 00:59:43,079 Sparks, raise Midway. Radio, "Main body." 888 00:59:43,622 --> 00:59:45,206 That's all? Just "main body"? 889 00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:46,916 Send it! Yes, sir. 890 00:59:51,296 --> 00:59:53,089 An American PBY, sir. 891 00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:55,424 A reconnaissance seaplane! 892 00:59:55,634 --> 00:59:58,469 Sir, radio's picked up transmission from the enemy plane. 893 00:59:58,553 --> 01:00:00,346 It's alerting Midway. 894 01:00:00,889 --> 01:00:02,682 Break radio silence. 895 01:00:02,891 --> 01:00:06,394 Advise Admiral Yamamoto that the invasion force has been discovered. 896 01:00:06,478 --> 01:00:07,478 Yes, sir. 897 01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:15,528 Six large ships in a column, bearing 262 degrees, distance 700 miles. 898 01:00:18,448 --> 01:00:19,657 Admiral. 899 01:00:19,741 --> 01:00:21,409 I wanted to tell you myself, Joe. 900 01:00:21,493 --> 01:00:23,577 You were right, it's Midway. 901 01:00:23,787 --> 01:00:27,832 Hot damn! You know what I mean, Admiral. 902 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,793 Thank God Fletcher joined Spruance in time. 903 01:00:33,672 --> 01:00:36,257 Another one from Strawberry 9, sir. 904 01:00:36,967 --> 01:00:40,886 11 ships, course 090, speed 19 knots. 905 01:00:41,430 --> 01:00:43,472 But what kind of ships? 906 01:00:44,057 --> 01:00:45,933 First transmission said "main body," 907 01:00:46,018 --> 01:00:48,728 but there was no mention of any carriers. 908 01:00:48,979 --> 01:00:53,149 BLAKE: That PBY, Strawberry 9, was at the end of his 700-mile leg 909 01:00:53,233 --> 01:00:55,192 when he sent that message "main body." 910 01:00:55,819 --> 01:00:57,528 It could be Nagumo's carriers 911 01:00:57,612 --> 01:00:59,322 are following the large ships he reported. 912 01:00:59,406 --> 01:01:01,657 Well, they may be just beyond his horizon, Admiral. 913 01:01:01,742 --> 01:01:05,578 If they are, Fletcher's in the wrong place. He's too far north. 914 01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:07,413 He'd have to move right now at flank speed 915 01:01:07,497 --> 01:01:10,416 to get within striking distance before sunset. 916 01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:12,918 But if Nagumo's carriers are where we figured 917 01:01:13,003 --> 01:01:14,420 coming in behind this storm front... 918 01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:17,048 Fletcher'd be caught between two forces. 919 01:01:17,132 --> 01:01:20,593 NIMITZ: Yes, if we let him head for that main body sighting. 920 01:01:24,931 --> 01:01:27,016 Send a flash message to Admiral Fletcher. 921 01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:29,435 This is not, repeat, not main body. 922 01:01:30,312 --> 01:01:33,606 Expect enemy carrier forces strike tomorrow from behind storm front... 923 01:01:33,857 --> 01:01:38,486 "...via northwest, as previously anticipated." Signed, Nimitz. 924 01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:41,280 Well, that settles that. 925 01:01:41,365 --> 01:01:45,201 CINCPAC must think the PBY sighted only Kondo's invasion force. 926 01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:48,788 But if it's Nagumo's attack force with his carriers, 927 01:01:48,872 --> 01:01:51,791 and his scouts find us before we find them... 928 01:01:57,798 --> 01:01:59,673 Captain Buckmaster, sound general quarters. 929 01:02:13,522 --> 01:02:17,233 Weather is clearing, sir. We could not have timed it better. 930 01:02:17,401 --> 01:02:20,569 Look, we've intercepted a radio transmission from Tokyo 931 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:22,488 to Admiral Yamamoto. 932 01:02:23,407 --> 01:02:24,532 So? 933 01:02:25,075 --> 01:02:26,617 Intelligence still does not report 934 01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:29,161 any movement of the American fleet. 935 01:02:29,913 --> 01:02:31,831 Well, whatever doubts we may have had... 936 01:02:31,915 --> 01:02:33,416 Are still with me, Kusaka. 937 01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:38,212 We have no definitive intelligence reports, only opinions and estimates. 938 01:02:38,338 --> 01:02:41,841 And continued silence from Yamamoto does not make them a fact. 939 01:02:41,925 --> 01:02:43,342 GENDA: Admiral. 940 01:02:43,885 --> 01:02:45,052 Genda. 941 01:02:49,933 --> 01:02:51,434 My apologies. 942 01:02:51,518 --> 01:02:54,145 I've been away from my duties much too long. 943 01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:57,398 Genda, how are you? 944 01:02:57,774 --> 01:03:01,277 I'm well enough now to take charge of air operations. 945 01:03:03,363 --> 01:03:06,574 And so you shall, my friend. And so you shall. 946 01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:10,953 I want you to prepare an air search plan immediately. 947 01:03:11,037 --> 01:03:12,621 For what area, Admiral? 948 01:03:12,706 --> 01:03:14,623 Where I would deploy my aircraft carriers 949 01:03:14,708 --> 01:03:17,042 if I were the American commander. 950 01:03:18,170 --> 01:03:21,338 There, northeast of Midway. 951 01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:31,515 Times like this, Joe, I miss the flatlands. 952 01:03:34,269 --> 01:03:37,021 It's a big body of water out there. 953 01:03:37,105 --> 01:03:40,566 I'm just a fellow who came out of a Texas prairie town. 954 01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:43,486 The nearest lake was 120 miles away. 955 01:03:44,321 --> 01:03:47,615 You could wade across it at the height of the rainy season. 956 01:03:47,699 --> 01:03:50,409 During the summer we made clay pots out of its bottom. 957 01:03:55,916 --> 01:03:57,750 No matter what happens, Joe, I want you to know, 958 01:03:57,834 --> 01:04:00,211 you've sure as hell earned your salary this month. 959 01:04:02,255 --> 01:04:04,173 Well, thank you, sir. 960 01:04:05,091 --> 01:04:07,009 GENDA: To cover the area in question, 961 01:04:07,093 --> 01:04:10,721 we will launch scout planes from the Akagi and the Kaga, 962 01:04:10,805 --> 01:04:14,099 and our cruiser escorts will launch five seaplanes. 963 01:04:14,935 --> 01:04:16,393 Very good. 964 01:04:16,478 --> 01:04:18,854 But until our scouts have searched the area 965 01:04:18,939 --> 01:04:21,315 we'll hold our most experienced pilots in reserve 966 01:04:21,399 --> 01:04:23,025 and half our aircraft. 967 01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:27,863 But, sir, the American fleet cannot be anywhere near Midway. 968 01:04:27,948 --> 01:04:29,782 We shouldn't hold back our best pilots. 969 01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:32,284 We've been over this ground before, Kusaka. 970 01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:36,121 Admiral, our first strike must be decisive. 971 01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:40,125 Midway's airstrip and planes must be destroyed in one massive blow. 972 01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:42,294 Otherwise, we invite a counterstrike. 973 01:04:44,005 --> 01:04:45,548 Commander Genda? 974 01:04:48,802 --> 01:04:50,719 I agree with you, sir. 975 01:04:51,221 --> 01:04:53,806 Let our younger pilots fly the first strike. 976 01:04:53,974 --> 01:04:55,724 I am sure they can do the job. 977 01:04:55,809 --> 01:04:58,727 If not, we can always launch a second strike. 978 01:04:59,437 --> 01:05:01,564 That is how we shall have it. 979 01:05:07,195 --> 01:05:09,947 Suddenly, the man who led us to victory at Pearl Harbor 980 01:05:10,031 --> 01:05:11,824 is choked by caution. 981 01:05:13,076 --> 01:05:15,244 He senses danger out there. 982 01:05:16,580 --> 01:05:17,871 So do I. 983 01:05:20,083 --> 01:05:22,793 GARTH: Admiral, they wouldn't bring their transports in so close 984 01:05:22,877 --> 01:05:24,795 if they didn't plan to invade damn soon. 985 01:05:24,879 --> 01:05:27,423 CINCPAC's right. They're gonna hit Midway today. 986 01:05:27,507 --> 01:05:28,674 FLETCHER: Yes, but from where? 987 01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:30,384 He could pop out anywhere along the edge of that storm. 988 01:05:31,011 --> 01:05:33,637 And when he does, he's gonna have his own scout planes out. 989 01:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,307 We have to find him before he finds us, sir. 990 01:05:36,391 --> 01:05:38,309 If we're wrong, if he hits us from the blind side... 991 01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:40,811 Why don't you get some eyes out there, too, sir? 992 01:05:40,895 --> 01:05:43,981 About 10 SBDs would cover our northern flank. 993 01:05:44,858 --> 01:05:45,941 Okay, get them in the air. Aye-aye. 994 01:05:46,026 --> 01:05:47,443 But no more than 100 miles out. 995 01:05:47,527 --> 01:05:49,486 I want to be able to recover them fast, 996 01:05:49,571 --> 01:05:50,738 in case the PBYs make contact first. 997 01:05:50,822 --> 01:05:52,072 Yes, sir. 998 01:06:19,100 --> 01:06:20,476 You okay? 999 01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,102 Yeah. Here. 1000 01:06:24,189 --> 01:06:26,440 Those poor bastards are gonna miss all the fun. 1001 01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:29,526 There's nothing north of us but empty ocean. 1002 01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:33,113 He gets his dope straight from Tokyo Rose. Right, Chili Bean? 1003 01:06:33,198 --> 01:06:34,406 Wrong, caballo. I get it from here. 1004 01:06:34,491 --> 01:06:35,532 Yeah. 1005 01:06:35,617 --> 01:06:37,493 When it bristles there's Japs around. 1006 01:06:37,577 --> 01:06:39,453 You crazy airdale! 1007 01:06:40,830 --> 01:06:41,914 Morning, Captain. 1008 01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:43,791 You guy are supposed to be sacked out. 1009 01:06:43,875 --> 01:06:45,209 What the hell are you doing here? 1010 01:06:46,503 --> 01:06:48,253 We tried, Captain, we couldn't sleep. 1011 01:06:49,381 --> 01:06:54,510 Yeah, I know, but let's get below and try. We got a heavy day ahead. 1012 01:06:56,971 --> 01:06:58,305 Yes, sir. 1013 01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:29,420 Excellent weather forecast, sir. 1014 01:07:29,504 --> 01:07:31,839 We've got broken cloud cover up to 2,000 feet 1015 01:07:31,923 --> 01:07:33,841 to conceal us from enemy scout planes, 1016 01:07:33,925 --> 01:07:36,552 and above 2,000, unlimited visibility 1017 01:07:36,636 --> 01:07:39,138 straight into Midway for our flyers. 1018 01:07:40,598 --> 01:07:42,391 Commence launching. 1019 01:08:21,097 --> 01:08:25,976 Sir, all scout planes from our cruisers are in the air, except one. 1020 01:08:26,728 --> 01:08:29,313 The Tone is having catapult problems, Admiral. 1021 01:08:29,981 --> 01:08:32,316 They'll be delayed in getting Scout 4 launched. 1022 01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:33,400 How long? 1023 01:08:33,777 --> 01:08:35,360 Half an hour, sir. 1024 01:08:35,445 --> 01:08:39,281 Sir, in case the Americans should suddenly appear, 1025 01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:42,201 I suggest the second flight wave be brought on deck 1026 01:08:42,285 --> 01:08:43,702 as soon as the first wave is clear. 1027 01:08:44,245 --> 01:08:45,454 Armed with torpedoes 1028 01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:48,165 to deal with the enemy carriers, Commander? 1029 01:08:48,249 --> 01:08:51,168 Yes. Our planes and the Kaga's. 1030 01:08:51,252 --> 01:08:53,796 Soryu and Hiryu's planes can stand by with bombs 1031 01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,547 in case they're needed over Midway. 1032 01:08:58,468 --> 01:08:59,676 Give the order. 1033 01:09:00,261 --> 01:09:01,553 Yes, sir. 1034 01:09:32,001 --> 01:09:34,628 Well, now it's up to our strike leader. 1035 01:09:35,713 --> 01:09:37,923 Tomonaga is the best we've got. 1036 01:10:09,497 --> 01:10:10,622 Howie? 1037 01:10:21,175 --> 01:10:22,926 It's the whole damn Jap navy! 1038 01:10:24,888 --> 01:10:26,930 Radio, raise Midway. 1039 01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,391 Send, "Enemy carriers." 1040 01:10:29,767 --> 01:10:31,268 OPERATOR ON RADIO: Bandits three o'clock, Lieutenant. 1041 01:10:32,812 --> 01:10:35,022 Yeah, we got them. It's Jap fighter cover. 1042 01:10:35,106 --> 01:10:36,273 Okay, let's duck into the clouds 1043 01:10:36,357 --> 01:10:37,691 and come in behind for a closer look. 1044 01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:46,658 Admiral. 1045 01:10:50,455 --> 01:10:53,165 Enemy carriers? You mean that's all? 1046 01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:55,250 That's all he said, sir. It's Strawberry 5. 1047 01:10:55,335 --> 01:10:57,127 We haven't heard from him since. 1048 01:10:57,211 --> 01:10:58,587 Admiral. 1049 01:10:58,671 --> 01:11:00,923 If he was on course and on schedule, 1050 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:06,011 he made the contact about here, 250 miles out. 1051 01:11:07,221 --> 01:11:08,764 You better signal that to Spruance. 1052 01:11:08,848 --> 01:11:10,307 Aye-aye, sir. 1053 01:11:24,030 --> 01:11:25,781 You damn certain that was Strawberry 5 you heard? 1054 01:11:26,991 --> 01:11:28,825 Positive, Skipper, it was their call letters. 1055 01:11:29,744 --> 01:11:32,579 Well, how far are we from that contact point? 1056 01:11:32,664 --> 01:11:34,498 We're about 15 minutes behind schedule. 1057 01:11:34,582 --> 01:11:37,584 OPERATOR: Bandits! Bandits! Sweet mother of God, hundreds of them! 1058 01:11:37,669 --> 01:11:38,710 Where, damn it? Where? 1059 01:11:39,963 --> 01:11:42,547 Four... No, no. Five, five o'clock! 1060 01:11:44,801 --> 01:11:46,385 Jesus! 1061 01:11:51,140 --> 01:11:53,475 Billy, send in the clear. "Many planes heading Midway." 1062 01:11:56,062 --> 01:11:57,646 Are you certain? 1063 01:11:57,730 --> 01:12:01,066 All right, just let us know the second you get anything else. 1064 01:12:01,150 --> 01:12:02,442 Nothing more, Admiral. 1065 01:12:02,527 --> 01:12:03,902 Not a word from any of our scouts 1066 01:12:03,987 --> 01:12:05,320 since that "many planes" flash. 1067 01:12:05,405 --> 01:12:07,531 Yes, but was that from Strawberry 5 or one of the other scouts? 1068 01:12:07,949 --> 01:12:11,159 No call letters were sent. The operator must have been too excited. 1069 01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:13,954 Or else he was jumped by enemy fighters. 1070 01:12:14,122 --> 01:12:17,916 Damn it! How many carriers? What course? What speed? 1071 01:12:19,836 --> 01:12:22,504 Those Jap fighters will never find us in this soup. 1072 01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:24,923 Yeah, and we'll never find their carriers again, 1073 01:12:25,008 --> 01:12:27,676 unless we break into the clear and soon. 1074 01:12:28,970 --> 01:12:32,264 Damn it! I should've gone straight in and risked it. 1075 01:12:41,232 --> 01:12:43,859 Nothing. We've lost them! 1076 01:12:45,445 --> 01:12:47,612 Lieutenant Addy, they're behind us! 1077 01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:50,449 I can see two carriers and a battleship. 1078 01:12:50,783 --> 01:12:52,117 Send it! 1079 01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:53,869 Aye-aye, sir. 1080 01:13:03,671 --> 01:13:05,380 BROWNING: "Fletcher to Spruance. 1081 01:13:05,465 --> 01:13:08,216 "Second sighting reported, Strawberry 5. 1082 01:13:08,301 --> 01:13:12,596 "Two enemy carriers, battleship. Bearing Midway, 320 degrees. 1083 01:13:12,930 --> 01:13:17,601 "Distance, 180 miles. Course, 135 degrees. 1084 01:13:18,019 --> 01:13:20,145 "Speed, 25 knots." 1085 01:13:20,605 --> 01:13:22,814 Right out of the slot where Nimitz figured they'd come. 1086 01:13:23,274 --> 01:13:26,985 "Proceed southwesterly, attack enemy carriers. 1087 01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,697 "Will follow as soon as search planes recovered. Fletcher." 1088 01:13:30,907 --> 01:13:33,408 Signal the Hornet, Captain Browning. 1089 01:13:34,786 --> 01:13:36,703 Let's get to battle stations. 1090 01:14:10,238 --> 01:14:12,823 Get the control tower officer for Captain Simard. 1091 01:14:16,869 --> 01:14:18,203 Andy? Yes, sir. 1092 01:14:18,287 --> 01:14:19,621 Major Parks get his fighters up? 1093 01:14:19,789 --> 01:14:23,375 All 23 of them. The SBDs are on the line now, ready to go. 1094 01:14:23,543 --> 01:14:25,043 Get them airborne. Yes, sir. 1095 01:14:25,670 --> 01:14:28,130 Captain, we've got Major Parks' frequency. 1096 01:14:31,008 --> 01:14:35,178 Rainbow Leader. Rainbow Leader. Below us, ten o'clock. 1097 01:14:38,224 --> 01:14:39,850 I see them, Kirk. 1098 01:14:40,434 --> 01:14:41,726 All right, everybody. 1099 01:14:41,811 --> 01:14:44,771 Let's see how many we can drop on the first pass. 1100 01:14:53,698 --> 01:14:56,158 PILOT: Bertha 3, Bertha 3. Under you, two bogies. 1101 01:14:59,996 --> 01:15:03,540 Got one! Got one! Look at that Jap bastard! 1102 01:15:06,252 --> 01:15:08,295 Bail out, Bertha 3. Bail out! 1103 01:15:08,546 --> 01:15:10,922 Get him off me! Somebody get him off me! 1104 01:15:11,632 --> 01:15:13,425 Bail out! Bail out! 1105 01:15:14,343 --> 01:15:18,013 Bertha 4, on your tail. Coming in on you! Three of them! 1106 01:15:19,557 --> 01:15:23,977 I'm hit, Rainbow Leader! Oh, my God! Mayday, mayday! 1107 01:15:25,104 --> 01:15:27,606 Look out, Rainbow! On your tail! 1108 01:15:28,482 --> 01:15:30,275 Billy, Billy! Four o'clock low. 1109 01:15:30,401 --> 01:15:32,194 Coming in on you! Three of them! 1110 01:15:39,327 --> 01:15:40,994 Coming at you at three. 1111 01:15:41,621 --> 01:15:44,164 Geez, look at that Jap bastard climb! 1112 01:15:44,874 --> 01:15:47,918 My God, they got Major Parks! Look out, on your tail! 1113 01:15:48,169 --> 01:15:50,545 Four o'clock low. Two bogies. 1114 01:15:51,297 --> 01:15:54,591 Rainbow Leader, come in, Rainbow Leader. This is Noah's Ark. 1115 01:15:54,675 --> 01:15:58,136 Report, please! What is your condition? Report, please! 1116 01:15:59,639 --> 01:16:01,890 Good God! Give me the tower. 1117 01:16:06,395 --> 01:16:08,939 Andy, they blew right through Red Park's fighters. 1118 01:16:09,023 --> 01:16:10,148 Get your people to the shelters. 1119 01:16:10,316 --> 01:16:11,441 Yes, sir. 1120 01:16:27,708 --> 01:16:28,917 Jesus! 1121 01:16:29,877 --> 01:16:31,253 Come on! 1122 01:16:38,219 --> 01:16:40,345 Attack in squadron order! 1123 01:18:04,472 --> 01:18:05,847 God, they creamed us. 1124 01:18:05,931 --> 01:18:07,265 But we're not out of action yet. 1125 01:18:07,767 --> 01:18:10,560 Our landing strip is still operational. 1126 01:18:36,087 --> 01:18:37,504 Admiral? Hmm? 1127 01:18:41,217 --> 01:18:43,843 Tomonaga is asking for a second strike. 1128 01:18:44,762 --> 01:18:48,223 Sir, this report is a great victory. 1129 01:18:48,307 --> 01:18:49,891 We've lost only seven planes 1130 01:18:49,975 --> 01:18:52,602 and we've destroyed more than 40 enemy aircraft, 1131 01:18:52,686 --> 01:18:54,312 in the air and on the ground. 1132 01:18:54,605 --> 01:18:56,773 But apparently the pilots that you chose 1133 01:18:56,857 --> 01:18:58,983 did not destroy the airstrip, Commander Genda. 1134 01:18:59,610 --> 01:19:04,406 Sir, we have 93 planes and our best pilots waiting on our flight decks. 1135 01:19:04,490 --> 01:19:07,075 The entire force should be sent out without delay. 1136 01:19:07,159 --> 01:19:08,827 The entire force? 1137 01:19:09,328 --> 01:19:13,206 Our planes are armed with torpedoes on Commander Genda's advice. 1138 01:19:13,290 --> 01:19:16,334 Hardly suitable for bombing an airstrip. Correct, Commander? 1139 01:19:16,919 --> 01:19:20,547 They should all be taken below immediately and rearmed with bombs, sir. 1140 01:19:20,631 --> 01:19:24,008 We must make certain that no air attacks against us 1141 01:19:24,093 --> 01:19:25,510 can be mounted from Midway. 1142 01:19:26,053 --> 01:19:29,431 Sir, Lieutenant Tomonaga's request is also a warning. 1143 01:19:30,057 --> 01:19:32,308 Midway is still a threat to us. 1144 01:19:32,685 --> 01:19:34,853 So are the American carriers, Kusaka. 1145 01:19:35,354 --> 01:19:37,522 If they are nearby, yes, sir. 1146 01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:40,942 But our scouts have been gone for over two hours now, they've reported nothing. 1147 01:19:41,235 --> 01:19:45,029 You're forgetting Scout Number 4 was a half-hour late taking off. 1148 01:19:45,114 --> 01:19:48,992 It will not reach it's maximum search range for another hour yet. 1149 01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:02,005 Tomonaga's planes will be returning soon. 1150 01:20:02,214 --> 01:20:06,718 When they recover, they can be quickly refueled and rearmed for sea action, 1151 01:20:06,927 --> 01:20:09,679 in case our scouts sight any enemy ships. 1152 01:20:11,765 --> 01:20:13,099 Admiral? 1153 01:20:17,062 --> 01:20:18,438 Very well. 1154 01:20:18,981 --> 01:20:22,108 Order our torpedo bombers to be rearmed with contact bombs. 1155 01:20:22,193 --> 01:20:23,401 As soon as they're ready, 1156 01:20:23,486 --> 01:20:26,070 we'll launch a second strike against Midway. 1157 01:20:26,155 --> 01:20:27,405 Yes, sir. 1158 01:21:00,606 --> 01:21:02,815 Fifty-seven planes on the line, sir. 1159 01:21:02,900 --> 01:21:06,402 The Hornet will probably launch about the same number. 1160 01:21:07,196 --> 01:21:09,280 What's the position of the enemy carriers? 1161 01:21:09,406 --> 01:21:11,491 135 miles, sir. 1162 01:21:12,785 --> 01:21:13,868 If we launch immediately, 1163 01:21:13,953 --> 01:21:16,412 do our pilots have enough fuel to make the attack and return? 1164 01:21:16,664 --> 01:21:18,957 Yes, sir. If this weather holds, 1165 01:21:19,416 --> 01:21:21,084 if their navigation is perfect, 1166 01:21:21,168 --> 01:21:23,294 and if they don't take too much time over the target. 1167 01:21:23,462 --> 01:21:25,046 If we launch now, 1168 01:21:25,130 --> 01:21:28,383 we just might catch Nagumo, like a sitting duck. 1169 01:21:29,009 --> 01:21:32,053 But if we take time to move in close, 1170 01:21:32,137 --> 01:21:34,430 that'll give him time to refuel and reload. 1171 01:21:35,099 --> 01:21:37,725 Sir, that PBY reported only two carriers. 1172 01:21:37,810 --> 01:21:38,810 I know. 1173 01:21:38,894 --> 01:21:41,145 Intelligence says he has four on his strike force. 1174 01:21:41,564 --> 01:21:43,731 Those other two suddenly pop up out of nowhere... 1175 01:21:44,149 --> 01:21:45,692 Then we'd be sitting ducks. 1176 01:21:49,613 --> 01:21:51,739 But there are two certain targets 1177 01:21:51,824 --> 01:21:54,325 135 miles from here that don't expect us. 1178 01:21:57,538 --> 01:21:59,956 Let's get Enterprise and Hornet turned into the wind. 1179 01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:01,374 Yes, sir. 1180 01:22:03,919 --> 01:22:06,671 GARTH: Admiral? Admiral? 1181 01:22:07,298 --> 01:22:09,048 It's from Admiral Spruance, sir. 1182 01:22:09,133 --> 01:22:11,926 Enterprise and Hornet are launching every aircraft they've got 1183 01:22:12,011 --> 01:22:14,137 from maximum range. 1184 01:22:23,105 --> 01:22:25,648 The air controller reports our Midway strike force 1185 01:22:25,733 --> 01:22:27,650 will be over the deck in one hour, sir. 1186 01:22:27,735 --> 01:22:29,986 Just the time we need to finish arming our bombers 1187 01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:31,696 for the second strike on Midway. 1188 01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:34,782 Your confidence is most reassuring, Kusaka. 1189 01:22:35,618 --> 01:22:38,870 Our scout planes still haven't reported enemy carriers nearby. 1190 01:22:38,954 --> 01:22:41,039 They should be starting their homeward leg now. 1191 01:22:41,749 --> 01:22:44,125 All except Scout Number 4. 1192 01:23:05,731 --> 01:23:07,607 Ten enemy ships sighted. 1193 01:23:07,691 --> 01:23:11,986 Bearing 010 degrees. Distance, 240 miles from Midway. 1194 01:23:12,071 --> 01:23:14,947 Course, 150 degrees. Speed, 20 knots. 1195 01:23:15,366 --> 01:23:17,033 Which scout radioed the contact? 1196 01:23:17,826 --> 01:23:18,910 Number 4, sir. 1197 01:23:22,456 --> 01:23:24,248 How far along are we on the rearming? 1198 01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:25,541 Almost half way, sir. 1199 01:23:25,626 --> 01:23:27,377 Order it halted. But, sir. 1200 01:23:27,461 --> 01:23:31,130 Radio Scout 4 to ascertain ship types and maintain contact. 1201 01:23:31,382 --> 01:23:32,465 RADIOMAN: Yes, sir. 1202 01:23:42,101 --> 01:23:45,061 Friendlies, sir. Our search planes returning. 1203 01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,856 They'll be back aboard in less than 15 minutes, sir. 1204 01:23:48,941 --> 01:23:51,526 Ask Captain Buckmaster to see to it, Murr. 1205 01:23:51,610 --> 01:23:53,319 Our planes from Enterprise and Hornet 1206 01:23:53,404 --> 01:23:56,864 should hit the Jap carriers in just under an hour, sir. 1207 01:23:57,533 --> 01:23:59,659 Well, not on the same course? 1208 01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:03,454 Now we're counting on it, Admiral. 1209 01:24:04,039 --> 01:24:06,582 Nagumo has to hold course until he recovers his planes 1210 01:24:06,667 --> 01:24:09,168 coming back from that Midway strike. 1211 01:24:09,753 --> 01:24:12,797 240 degrees ought to put our people right smack on top of him 1212 01:24:12,881 --> 01:24:14,340 with his flight decks full of unfueled aircraft. 1213 01:24:29,523 --> 01:24:31,899 I don't see our fighters anywhere, sir. 1214 01:24:31,984 --> 01:24:33,651 They should've caught up to us by now. 1215 01:24:33,736 --> 01:24:35,319 And where's Bombing 8, Skipper? 1216 01:24:36,113 --> 01:24:38,531 With Fighting 8, Dobbs. They took off together. 1217 01:24:39,491 --> 01:24:42,201 Ain't they supposed to be tagging along with us? 1218 01:24:44,538 --> 01:24:47,290 GAY ON RADIO: Red Fox Leader from Kit 3. 1219 01:24:48,125 --> 01:24:50,084 Red Fox Leader from Kit 3. 1220 01:24:50,169 --> 01:24:54,088 Skipper, either my compass is all fouled up or we're now headed 240. 1221 01:24:55,841 --> 01:24:58,050 There's nothing out there but empty ocean. 1222 01:24:58,135 --> 01:25:00,261 I know where the Japs will be, Mr. Gay. 1223 01:25:02,347 --> 01:25:04,056 Think you might let us in on it, sir? 1224 01:25:04,767 --> 01:25:07,226 I figure they moved since we launched. 1225 01:25:07,311 --> 01:25:09,896 East, heading out away from Midway. 1226 01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:11,647 Out. 1227 01:25:12,983 --> 01:25:14,192 Roger. 1228 01:25:14,359 --> 01:25:17,028 What good's our orders if the skipper's gonna lead us off on his own? 1229 01:25:17,404 --> 01:25:18,696 I don't like it, sir. 1230 01:25:19,490 --> 01:25:21,491 Huntington, now you take it easy, hear? 1231 01:25:21,575 --> 01:25:23,951 If anybody can find the Japs, Waldron can. 1232 01:25:24,036 --> 01:25:26,412 He's part Sioux Indian, for Christ's sake. 1233 01:25:33,837 --> 01:25:36,672 Sir, another message from Scout 4. 1234 01:25:39,218 --> 01:25:42,929 Three additional enemy ships sighted, 250 miles from Midway. 1235 01:25:43,013 --> 01:25:44,555 Speed, 20 knots. 1236 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:49,185 Apparently two cruisers, a carrier believed to be the Yorktown. 1237 01:25:49,645 --> 01:25:53,773 Impossible. The Yorktown was virtually blown out of the water at Coral Sea. 1238 01:25:53,857 --> 01:25:55,274 They can't have repaired her 1239 01:25:55,359 --> 01:25:57,693 and brought her this far west in less than 10 days. 1240 01:25:58,153 --> 01:26:00,071 We must assume that they have! 1241 01:26:00,489 --> 01:26:02,990 If it is the Yorktown, we must destroy her at once, sir. 1242 01:26:03,867 --> 01:26:05,076 I see. 1243 01:26:05,953 --> 01:26:08,871 Now, suddenly, the threat of Midway's bombers 1244 01:26:08,956 --> 01:26:10,623 seems less to you than it did 1245 01:26:10,707 --> 01:26:14,752 when you urged me to switch our planes from torpedoes to bombs! 1246 01:26:14,837 --> 01:26:17,922 Admiral, Midway will have to wait, sir. 1247 01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:19,590 We should rearm our bombers immediately 1248 01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:21,092 and attack that enemy carrier. 1249 01:26:21,718 --> 01:26:24,011 Back to torpedoes again, Kusaka? 1250 01:26:24,972 --> 01:26:26,180 More wasted time! 1251 01:26:26,265 --> 01:26:29,016 Lieutenant Tomonaga, this is Commander Genda. 1252 01:26:29,101 --> 01:26:30,184 Do you read me? 1253 01:26:33,438 --> 01:26:36,691 Lieutenant Tomonaga, this is Commander Genda. 1254 01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:38,276 Do you read me? 1255 01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:40,278 TOMONAGA: I read you, sir. Report, please. 1256 01:26:40,821 --> 01:26:42,905 Request permission to land, sir. 1257 01:26:42,990 --> 01:26:46,158 Many of my pilots reporting near-empty fuel tanks. 1258 01:26:46,243 --> 01:26:48,494 Some have taken anti-aircraft hits. 1259 01:26:48,579 --> 01:26:50,538 Urgent we land immediately, sir. 1260 01:26:51,456 --> 01:26:53,291 Sir, do I have your permission? 1261 01:26:53,917 --> 01:26:56,419 Admiral Yamaguchi advises that we launch an attack 1262 01:26:56,503 --> 01:26:58,504 on the American carrier immediately. 1263 01:26:58,589 --> 01:27:01,257 That we send our bombers out, however they're armed. 1264 01:27:01,341 --> 01:27:02,884 And while we're launching, sir, 1265 01:27:02,968 --> 01:27:05,136 Tomonaga's pilots will be crashing into the sea! 1266 01:27:05,888 --> 01:27:08,431 They're running out of fuel, Admiral. 1267 01:27:16,398 --> 01:27:17,773 All right. 1268 01:27:18,692 --> 01:27:22,069 Wait until we've recovered all our airborne aircraft. 1269 01:27:22,321 --> 01:27:24,614 While the flight deck is being used for the recovery, 1270 01:27:24,698 --> 01:27:27,116 rearm our bombers with torpedoes. 1271 01:27:27,618 --> 01:27:30,119 Then we'll launch the attack on the American carrier. 1272 01:27:30,412 --> 01:27:31,537 Sir. 1273 01:27:32,873 --> 01:27:33,915 Lieutenant Tomonaga. 1274 01:27:43,216 --> 01:27:46,344 That's the last of our scout planes, Admiral. 1275 01:27:47,095 --> 01:27:49,847 Tell Elliott to launch everything we've got. 1276 01:27:49,932 --> 01:27:51,390 Aye-aye, sir. 1277 01:27:59,232 --> 01:28:01,275 MAN ON PA: Pilots, man your planes! 1278 01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,069 General quarters, general quarters, 1279 01:28:03,153 --> 01:28:05,571 all units man your battle stations. 1280 01:29:33,035 --> 01:29:35,911 Admiral, all aircraft now aboard, sir. 1281 01:29:36,455 --> 01:29:37,621 Tomonaga? 1282 01:29:37,706 --> 01:29:39,915 He was the last to touch down. 1283 01:29:41,084 --> 01:29:43,252 I want to close the range on that enemy carrier. 1284 01:29:43,336 --> 01:29:45,421 Steer northeast, battle speed! 1285 01:29:45,505 --> 01:29:46,714 Yes, sir. 1286 01:29:58,602 --> 01:30:00,311 From Admiral Nagumo, sir. 1287 01:30:00,395 --> 01:30:02,354 "Enemy force composed of one carrier, 1288 01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:04,440 "five cruisers, five destroyers. 1289 01:30:04,524 --> 01:30:07,818 "Sighted 250 miles from Midway. We are headed for it." 1290 01:30:07,903 --> 01:30:09,445 One carrier? 1291 01:30:11,031 --> 01:30:14,784 Close to Midway. Not Pearl Harbor! 1292 01:30:15,577 --> 01:30:17,495 Admiral Nagumo will simply destroy it 1293 01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:20,206 a few days earlier than we had planned. 1294 01:30:26,671 --> 01:30:28,380 Oh, thanks, Matt. 1295 01:30:28,882 --> 01:30:30,257 Boy, I'd give my retirement pay 1296 01:30:30,342 --> 01:30:32,051 to know what Nagumo's doing right now. 1297 01:30:32,135 --> 01:30:35,179 The same thing we are, Admiral, sweating it out. 1298 01:30:48,276 --> 01:30:49,485 Skipper! 1299 01:30:55,659 --> 01:30:56,992 I see it. 1300 01:30:57,869 --> 01:30:59,078 What'd I tell you, Huntington? 1301 01:30:59,538 --> 01:31:01,747 The skipper can smell them out. 1302 01:31:06,753 --> 01:31:09,171 Dobbs, see if you can raise Bombing 8 and Fighting 8. 1303 01:31:09,256 --> 01:31:10,548 They can't be too far away. 1304 01:31:10,841 --> 01:31:12,341 You better coordinate the attack. 1305 01:31:12,425 --> 01:31:13,717 Yes, sir. 1306 01:31:13,802 --> 01:31:21,809 Red Fox 8 Leader to Badger 8 Leader. 1307 01:31:21,893 --> 01:31:23,477 Do you read me? Over. 1308 01:31:24,521 --> 01:31:28,065 Okay, we can't wait all day. You better get ready, Dobbs. 1309 01:31:28,859 --> 01:31:31,485 Red Fox Leader to Kits, we're going in! 1310 01:31:31,653 --> 01:31:34,155 Divisions 2 and 4, take the carrier support. 1311 01:31:34,239 --> 01:31:36,740 Divisions 1 and 3, ram it to the other two. 1312 01:31:37,117 --> 01:31:39,743 And stay together as long as you can. 1313 01:31:39,828 --> 01:31:42,371 I say again, stay in tight! 1314 01:31:57,804 --> 01:32:01,015 Admiral, enemy torpedo bombers, off the port quarter! 1315 01:32:14,237 --> 01:32:17,156 They're coming in without fighter protection. 1316 01:32:17,365 --> 01:32:19,742 Suicide, mindless suicide! 1317 01:32:19,910 --> 01:32:20,951 Perhaps. 1318 01:32:21,036 --> 01:32:23,120 But is an effective technique. 1319 01:32:23,205 --> 01:32:25,206 We can't launch our attack against their carrier 1320 01:32:25,290 --> 01:32:27,249 while we're busy dodging them. 1321 01:32:27,334 --> 01:32:29,376 They're using up all our fighters. 1322 01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:33,130 WALDRON: Fox Leader to Kit 3, bandits, eleven o'clock! Look out! 1323 01:32:33,924 --> 01:32:36,800 Dead ahead, Kit 4, two of them. Shoot, Andy, shoot! 1324 01:32:40,347 --> 01:32:42,681 OFFICER 1: This is Kit 6, I got three of them on my tail. 1325 01:32:42,766 --> 01:32:44,308 For Christ sake, somebody help me! 1326 01:32:54,945 --> 01:32:58,405 OFFICER 2: Danny, below you, bandits! No, no! 1327 01:33:00,909 --> 01:33:03,702 Oh, my God, Danny, bail out! Bail out! 1328 01:33:05,789 --> 01:33:08,457 Bail out, Danny! Bail out! 1329 01:33:15,340 --> 01:33:17,383 WALDRON: Fox Leader to Kit, stay in formation! 1330 01:33:17,467 --> 01:33:20,302 Damn it, close up, you idiots! They'll chop us to pieces! 1331 01:33:20,387 --> 01:33:22,012 Close in! Close in! 1332 01:33:22,097 --> 01:33:23,889 PILOT: I'm hit, I'm hit! Oh, Jesus! 1333 01:33:30,021 --> 01:33:32,731 WALDRON: Dobbs, behind you! Bandits behind you! 1334 01:33:33,650 --> 01:33:35,234 Dobbs, look out! 1335 01:33:39,114 --> 01:33:42,992 GAY: Huntington, three of them coming in at ten o'clock! 1336 01:33:51,251 --> 01:33:52,668 Huntington! 1337 01:33:53,670 --> 01:33:55,671 Huntington, Huntington! 1338 01:33:59,384 --> 01:34:00,968 Close in, Mr. Gay. Follow me. 1339 01:34:21,156 --> 01:34:23,240 GAY: Commander Waldron, get your nose up! 1340 01:34:25,243 --> 01:34:27,745 Commander Waldron, pull up, pull up! 1341 01:35:25,428 --> 01:35:26,512 What the hell happened? 1342 01:35:26,596 --> 01:35:28,722 One of our torpedo groups attacked. 1343 01:35:28,807 --> 01:35:31,517 Yeah, but which one? I mean, what the hell happened? 1344 01:35:35,897 --> 01:35:37,523 Casualty report, sir. 1345 01:35:37,607 --> 01:35:39,650 One of our fighters suffered a minor hit, 1346 01:35:39,734 --> 01:35:42,152 no shipboard damage, no casualties. 1347 01:35:47,784 --> 01:35:49,493 A whole squadron. 1348 01:35:50,995 --> 01:35:52,996 Fifteen brave crews. 1349 01:36:13,476 --> 01:36:16,103 Torpedo 3 going in at 1,500 feet, sir. 1350 01:36:16,187 --> 01:36:18,105 Bombing 3 and Fighting 3 at 19,000, 1351 01:36:18,189 --> 01:36:19,231 and 15 minutes to target. 1352 01:36:19,315 --> 01:36:20,524 Who's coordinating the attack? 1353 01:36:20,608 --> 01:36:23,485 Max Leslie, sir. He's leading Bombing 3. 1354 01:36:37,625 --> 01:36:41,253 Helen Leader to Helen Group, time to arm our bombs. 1355 01:36:41,337 --> 01:36:44,006 I say again, arm bombs! 1356 01:36:49,137 --> 01:36:50,888 God damn it! 1357 01:36:53,057 --> 01:36:54,641 This is Helen Leader, keep your hands 1358 01:36:54,726 --> 01:36:56,226 off that damned electric arming switch! 1359 01:36:56,311 --> 01:36:59,646 Use manual control! Use manual control! 1360 01:36:59,731 --> 01:37:00,981 PILOT 1: Too late, Commander. 1361 01:37:01,065 --> 01:37:02,691 PILOT 2: Mine dropped, too, Commander Leslie. 1362 01:37:02,775 --> 01:37:04,902 PILOT 3: Mine dropped, too. Rotten gadget! 1363 01:37:04,986 --> 01:37:07,196 Who the hell invented the electric arming switch? 1364 01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:09,656 PILOT 4: Yamamoto, who the hell do you think? 1365 01:37:09,741 --> 01:37:11,658 Now what are we gonna do? Drop spitballs on the Japs? 1366 01:37:11,743 --> 01:37:15,871 All right, knock it off. The rest of you, use manual control! 1367 01:37:17,123 --> 01:37:18,916 Helen Leader, out. 1368 01:37:44,317 --> 01:37:47,653 Skipper, take a look at Chili Bean over here. 1369 01:37:50,573 --> 01:37:51,823 I can feel them! 1370 01:37:52,825 --> 01:37:54,451 Sure hope he's right. 1371 01:38:07,799 --> 01:38:11,635 Bertha 3 Leader to Mabel 3 Leader. 1372 01:38:11,719 --> 01:38:13,637 Thach, on the horizon! 1373 01:38:14,138 --> 01:38:18,767 I've got three... Sweet Jesus! I got four Jap carriers. 1374 01:38:20,019 --> 01:38:22,688 Holy hell, we hit the jackpot! 1375 01:38:29,696 --> 01:38:30,737 Yes, sky watch. 1376 01:38:30,822 --> 01:38:32,197 Enemy torpedo planes, sir. 1377 01:38:32,282 --> 01:38:33,282 How many? 1378 01:38:33,366 --> 01:38:34,825 Two separate groups. 1379 01:38:41,499 --> 01:38:43,500 Bertha 3 Leader, Mabel 3 Leader. 1380 01:38:43,751 --> 01:38:46,086 How's about it, Thach. You boys ready up there? 1381 01:38:46,713 --> 01:38:50,674 Damn right we're ready. Let's go, Lem, we're running out of fuel. 1382 01:38:50,758 --> 01:38:53,677 Roger. Bertha 3 Leader to Small Fry. 1383 01:38:53,845 --> 01:38:56,305 Concentrate on the closest flattop. 1384 01:38:56,431 --> 01:38:58,724 Push in close and get hits. 1385 01:38:59,100 --> 01:39:01,977 I count 12 coming in from starboard, Admiral. 1386 01:39:02,061 --> 01:39:04,229 Fourteen from port side, sir. 1387 01:39:04,314 --> 01:39:07,399 All these torpedo planes can't be coming from one carrier. 1388 01:39:07,483 --> 01:39:09,401 Well, they must be coming from Midway. 1389 01:39:09,527 --> 01:39:11,278 Or a second carrier. 1390 01:39:11,821 --> 01:39:14,531 Sir, we've heard nothing from Scout 4 1391 01:39:14,616 --> 01:39:16,074 since it sighted the one enemy carrier. 1392 01:39:16,451 --> 01:39:17,743 I think the Soryu should send out 1393 01:39:17,827 --> 01:39:18,952 its scout plane for another look. 1394 01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:22,289 We must make certain of what we are up against. 1395 01:39:22,749 --> 01:39:24,333 See to it immediately. 1396 01:39:24,417 --> 01:39:25,500 Yes, sir. 1397 01:39:38,264 --> 01:39:41,308 Lining up to jump us, Thach. About 12 Zekes. 1398 01:39:42,226 --> 01:39:43,894 We're right above them, Lem. 1399 01:39:43,978 --> 01:39:46,271 Mabel 3 to Hustlers, let's break them up! 1400 01:40:05,458 --> 01:40:07,876 Score one for Commander Thach! 1401 01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:09,920 Four o'clock low. Coming in on you! Three of them! 1402 01:40:13,508 --> 01:40:16,677 Atta boy, Tom! Run that bastard right into the drink! 1403 01:40:16,761 --> 01:40:18,637 Blow it to him, Tommy. 1404 01:40:21,683 --> 01:40:23,850 Ramos, two o'clock! Two o'clock! 1405 01:40:31,567 --> 01:40:33,276 Nice shooting, Ramos! 1406 01:40:33,820 --> 01:40:35,487 Chalk up one for Chili Bean. 1407 01:40:38,783 --> 01:40:41,118 One o'clock, Manson. One o'clock! 1408 01:40:47,041 --> 01:40:49,501 You got him! Nice going, Manson. 1409 01:40:55,425 --> 01:40:56,883 Mabel Leader to Hustler 2, 1410 01:40:57,093 --> 01:40:59,344 three bandits at twelve o'clock diving on you! 1411 01:40:59,429 --> 01:41:02,931 Roll out, Tom! Roll out! Climb, climb! 1412 01:41:28,624 --> 01:41:29,666 Yes. 1413 01:41:29,751 --> 01:41:31,585 We've crushed every one of their air attacks, 1414 01:41:31,669 --> 01:41:33,712 and not one torpedo has even come close. 1415 01:41:34,881 --> 01:41:38,300 Sacrifice themselves like samurai, these Americans. 1416 01:41:38,718 --> 01:41:41,678 Sir, the fighter director reports that last attack 1417 01:41:41,763 --> 01:41:44,264 pulled our entire fighter cover down to sea level. 1418 01:41:44,348 --> 01:41:46,933 They're off now, wave-hopping after the survivors. 1419 01:41:47,894 --> 01:41:49,519 We have no fighter umbrella over us? 1420 01:41:49,604 --> 01:41:50,687 No, sir. 1421 01:41:50,772 --> 01:41:54,941 We're trying to recall them, get them back up to the patrol altitude. 1422 01:41:55,026 --> 01:41:57,402 How many fighters are standing by to cover our attack 1423 01:41:57,487 --> 01:41:59,863 against the American carrier? 1424 01:41:59,989 --> 01:42:02,240 Barely enough to do the job, sir. 1425 01:42:28,017 --> 01:42:31,645 They're American carriers, no doubt about it, Yorktown class. 1426 01:42:31,729 --> 01:42:34,439 Get through to Nagumo's flagship. Be quick about it! 1427 01:42:41,864 --> 01:42:43,198 Why are you waiting for? 1428 01:42:43,324 --> 01:42:44,658 The transmitter isn't working, sir. 1429 01:42:44,742 --> 01:42:46,576 We're not sending out any signal! 1430 01:43:01,884 --> 01:43:03,635 What's that look like to you down there? 1431 01:43:08,099 --> 01:43:09,432 A Jap destroyer! 1432 01:43:10,601 --> 01:43:13,270 Going someplace in one hell of a hurry. 1433 01:43:18,025 --> 01:43:20,360 Okay, let's follow it. See where it leads us. 1434 01:43:21,571 --> 01:43:23,864 Commander McClusky, look at your fuel gauge. 1435 01:43:23,948 --> 01:43:25,824 We've gotta turn back now or... 1436 01:43:25,908 --> 01:43:27,492 I know, I know. 1437 01:43:34,292 --> 01:43:37,627 The last two attacks were made by more than 50 torpedo planes. 1438 01:43:37,712 --> 01:43:39,254 Fifty, Kusaka. 1439 01:43:39,755 --> 01:43:43,550 There is more than one enemy carrier nearby, there must be! 1440 01:43:43,759 --> 01:43:44,843 Admiral. 1441 01:43:44,927 --> 01:43:47,387 Genda, why hasn't Soryu's scout plane reported? 1442 01:43:47,471 --> 01:43:48,513 We don't know, sir. 1443 01:43:48,598 --> 01:43:50,974 It should have sighted the American ships 10 minutes ago. 1444 01:43:51,350 --> 01:43:54,311 Sir, all the bombers are rearmed and ready. 1445 01:44:00,318 --> 01:44:03,987 Signal all carriers, launch immediately! 1446 01:44:12,496 --> 01:44:16,666 PILOT: Raven Leader, there they are, dead ahead. Sweet mother, look at them! 1447 01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:19,210 The whole Jap navy! 1448 01:44:19,295 --> 01:44:20,378 This is Raven Leader. 1449 01:44:20,463 --> 01:44:24,049 Pipe down and stay off the air till I report contact! 1450 01:44:24,508 --> 01:44:27,510 Raven Leader to Mother Goose. 1451 01:44:27,845 --> 01:44:31,473 Have them in sight. Four enemy carriers. 1452 01:44:31,557 --> 01:44:34,893 I say again, four enemy carriers. 1453 01:44:47,198 --> 01:44:48,823 WILSON: Helen Leader to Bertha Leader! 1454 01:44:48,908 --> 01:44:50,367 Helen Leader to Mabel Leader! 1455 01:44:50,618 --> 01:44:52,702 Come in, Bertha! Come in, Mabel! 1456 01:44:53,746 --> 01:44:56,831 This is Helen Leader. We have made contact. 1457 01:44:56,916 --> 01:44:59,209 Come in, Bertha. Come in, Mabel. 1458 01:45:00,753 --> 01:45:02,629 I'm sorry, Commander Leslie. 1459 01:45:02,713 --> 01:45:04,756 Torpedo 3 and Fighter 3 don't answer. 1460 01:45:05,758 --> 01:45:08,802 Keep trying, Wilson. We're supposed to coordinate our attack. 1461 01:45:09,178 --> 01:45:11,262 Maybe they got balled up on their navigation, sir, 1462 01:45:11,347 --> 01:45:14,140 or maybe we're not at the right rendezvous point. 1463 01:45:14,517 --> 01:45:16,434 Keep trying, damn it! 1464 01:45:17,186 --> 01:45:18,937 Mabel Leader, come in, Mabel Leader! 1465 01:45:24,193 --> 01:45:26,903 Raven Leader to flock, looks like they're turning into the wind, 1466 01:45:26,988 --> 01:45:28,363 getting ready to launch. 1467 01:45:28,447 --> 01:45:29,990 JACCARD: Where's their fighter patrol? 1468 01:45:30,074 --> 01:45:31,408 I don't see any Jap fighters, sir. 1469 01:45:31,492 --> 01:45:34,411 Well, let's not wait for them. Follow me. 1470 01:45:38,374 --> 01:45:39,624 It's no use, sir. 1471 01:45:39,709 --> 01:45:42,752 Commander Massey and Commander Thach still don't answer. 1472 01:45:42,837 --> 01:45:45,046 Okay, Wilson, hang on. We're going in. 1473 01:45:45,423 --> 01:45:47,007 Sir, we don't have a bomb! 1474 01:45:47,091 --> 01:45:50,218 Well, we can draw some heat off the guys who do. 1475 01:45:50,553 --> 01:45:52,345 This is Helen Leader. 1476 01:45:52,722 --> 01:45:56,057 We'll concentrate on that big bastard up forward. 1477 01:46:54,825 --> 01:46:57,577 Raven Leader to Raven One, Raven Two. You missed, damn it! 1478 01:46:57,661 --> 01:46:58,953 Raven 1 to Raven Leader. 1479 01:46:59,038 --> 01:47:00,705 Commander McClusky, they've got bombs 1480 01:47:00,790 --> 01:47:02,874 stacked all over their flight deck! 1481 01:47:03,459 --> 01:47:05,585 Bull's eye! Bull's eye! 1482 01:47:10,925 --> 01:47:14,969 Scratch one flattop! Sweet mother, we caught him cold! 1483 01:47:15,054 --> 01:47:18,598 Raven Leader to Raven 6. I got a hit, Commander McClusky. 1484 01:47:20,476 --> 01:47:23,019 PILOT 2: Ram it home, girls, ram it home! 1485 01:47:23,646 --> 01:47:25,438 Cream the bastards! 1486 01:47:27,900 --> 01:47:30,443 Bull's eye, Helen 5. Bull's eye! 1487 01:47:33,823 --> 01:47:37,242 Commander Leslie, I got a hit right down their throat. 1488 01:47:37,326 --> 01:47:39,077 Look at that bastard burn! 1489 01:47:39,161 --> 01:47:41,579 LESLIE: Beautiful, Helen 3, dead center! 1490 01:47:56,178 --> 01:47:58,304 My God, we caught them flat-footed! 1491 01:47:58,389 --> 01:48:00,515 No fighters, cover decks loaded with bombs! 1492 01:48:00,599 --> 01:48:03,101 Sweet Mary-Anne, how'd we get so lucky? 1493 01:48:30,838 --> 01:48:34,966 Helen Leader to squadron, three enemy carriers burning. 1494 01:48:35,509 --> 01:48:37,177 Time to go home. 1495 01:49:15,382 --> 01:49:18,843 Admiral, you must transfer your flag. 1496 01:49:19,261 --> 01:49:21,137 The cruiser Nagara is close by. 1497 01:49:23,057 --> 01:49:25,725 Advise Admiral Yamaguchi. 1498 01:49:32,149 --> 01:49:35,693 I can't tell you where to find the enemy carriers, Lieutenant Kobayashi. 1499 01:49:35,778 --> 01:49:39,822 Their last position was radioed by Scout 4. It's several hours old. 1500 01:49:40,241 --> 01:49:42,367 Hasn't the Soryu scout reported, sir? 1501 01:49:42,451 --> 01:49:44,535 It hasn't been heard from since it was launched. 1502 01:49:44,620 --> 01:49:46,162 Then how do I find him, sir? 1503 01:49:46,247 --> 01:49:50,708 Lead your group toward the last reported position here northeast of us 1504 01:49:51,335 --> 01:49:55,255 and then just trust your luck that somehow you'll find them. 1505 01:50:07,977 --> 01:50:09,769 Do you hear anything? 1506 01:50:09,853 --> 01:50:10,853 Nothing, sir. 1507 01:50:10,938 --> 01:50:14,148 All enemy ship and aircraft frequencies are silent. 1508 01:50:20,656 --> 01:50:22,699 Lieutenant, enemy planes! 1509 01:50:22,783 --> 01:50:23,866 I see them. 1510 01:50:28,622 --> 01:50:30,665 Our fighters are forming for an attack! 1511 01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:34,711 Signal them to lay back with the rest of us. 1512 01:50:34,795 --> 01:50:36,754 Use your light, stay off the radio! 1513 01:50:36,839 --> 01:50:37,797 Yes, sir. 1514 01:50:37,881 --> 01:50:40,800 We'll let them lead us to their carrier. 1515 01:50:52,187 --> 01:50:54,522 I count all Max Leslie's bombers, sir. 1516 01:50:54,606 --> 01:50:57,066 Well, where the hell are the rest of Thach's fighters? 1517 01:50:57,484 --> 01:50:58,901 Off the port quarter, sir. 1518 01:51:05,951 --> 01:51:07,660 I'll bring the fighters down first. 1519 01:51:07,745 --> 01:51:10,246 They'll be the lowest on fuel. 1520 01:52:14,436 --> 01:52:15,603 Jesus! 1521 01:52:32,496 --> 01:52:34,330 He's alive, Captain. 1522 01:52:36,458 --> 01:52:37,750 Flight Mission Combat. 1523 01:52:37,918 --> 01:52:38,960 Go ahead, Combat. 1524 01:52:39,211 --> 01:52:42,130 Radar has a third group of aircraft, definitely bandits. 1525 01:52:42,214 --> 01:52:44,799 020, 30 miles and approaching, sir. 1526 01:52:45,008 --> 01:52:46,050 Roger. 1527 01:52:46,135 --> 01:52:48,928 Bandits, sir. 020, approaching 30 miles. 1528 01:52:50,931 --> 01:52:52,098 Sound general quarters. 1529 01:54:34,952 --> 01:54:38,454 Sir, we took a bomb on our side. The boilers are out. 1530 01:54:40,123 --> 01:54:41,707 Admiral, the radio's down. 1531 01:54:41,792 --> 01:54:44,210 We can't send visual signals with all this smoke. 1532 01:54:44,503 --> 01:54:47,547 You'll have to transfer the flag, sir. I suggest the Astoria. 1533 01:54:47,631 --> 01:54:49,882 Matt, you better stay aboard, help Murray with flight ops. 1534 01:54:49,967 --> 01:54:51,259 Aye, sir. 1535 01:54:54,054 --> 01:54:55,096 Lower the barge. 1536 01:54:55,764 --> 01:54:57,014 Order Admiral's barge lowered! 1537 01:54:57,349 --> 01:54:58,558 Aye-aye, sir. 1538 01:55:03,814 --> 01:55:07,650 This is Zephyr calling Whirlwind. Zephyr to Whirlwind. 1539 01:55:08,277 --> 01:55:09,819 Enemy carrier on fire! 1540 01:55:10,112 --> 01:55:13,948 I repeat, enemy carrier on fire. Returning to base. 1541 01:55:14,283 --> 01:55:15,741 That wasn't Kobayashi's voice. 1542 01:55:15,867 --> 01:55:17,326 It was Petty Officer Nakoda, sir. 1543 01:55:17,411 --> 01:55:20,079 Apparently none of the senior officers survived. 1544 01:55:20,163 --> 01:55:22,915 Captain, the scout plane from the Soryu is approaching. 1545 01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:24,333 He signaled that his radio is out. 1546 01:55:29,423 --> 01:55:30,506 He's gonna be okay, Captain. 1547 01:55:30,591 --> 01:55:33,384 We're gonna transfer him in half an hour or so, sir. 1548 01:55:54,740 --> 01:55:56,282 Hi, Dad. 1549 01:55:59,620 --> 01:56:02,079 I'll see you back at Pearl, Tom. 1550 01:56:05,208 --> 01:56:08,210 There's a picture of Haruko and me 1551 01:56:09,254 --> 01:56:11,088 that I'd like you to bring ashore. 1552 01:56:13,175 --> 01:56:14,884 Sure, I'll take care of it, tiger. 1553 01:56:21,224 --> 01:56:22,725 Thanks, Dad. 1554 01:56:31,068 --> 01:56:33,694 DELANEY: Only one boiler is lit, sir. The other five are out. 1555 01:56:33,779 --> 01:56:35,196 Can you get them on the line again? 1556 01:56:35,572 --> 01:56:36,530 Yes, sir. 1557 01:56:36,615 --> 01:56:39,241 I think I can guarantee you about 15 knots in an hour or so. 1558 01:56:39,409 --> 01:56:40,534 Very good. 1559 01:56:40,619 --> 01:56:43,496 Now, Delaney, pass the word along to your black gang. 1560 01:56:43,580 --> 01:56:45,581 We've got the topside fires under control. 1561 01:56:45,791 --> 01:56:47,208 Aye-aye, sir. 1562 01:56:49,419 --> 01:56:51,504 Matt, we have more planes than pilots now. 1563 01:56:51,588 --> 01:56:53,756 Can you fly one off for me when we go? 1564 01:56:53,840 --> 01:56:55,257 Sure, Murr. 1565 01:57:03,183 --> 01:57:04,767 Did you confirm it? Yes, sir. 1566 01:57:04,851 --> 01:57:06,811 Admiral Fletcher's reply just came in. 1567 01:57:06,895 --> 01:57:11,148 "Fletcher to Nimitz, confirm previous report, three enemy carriers afire." 1568 01:57:11,233 --> 01:57:12,900 Hallelujah! 1569 01:57:13,151 --> 01:57:16,445 Three of their first-line carriers, Admiral! 1570 01:57:16,530 --> 01:57:19,323 Isn't that worth at least a "hot-diggity-damn"? 1571 01:57:19,533 --> 01:57:21,200 I'll take it under advisement, Joe, 1572 01:57:21,284 --> 01:57:23,869 but there's still that fourth enemy carrier to deal with. 1573 01:57:23,954 --> 01:57:26,372 There's also a message from Captain Buckmaster, sir, 1574 01:57:26,456 --> 01:57:27,832 the Yorktown's been hit. 1575 01:57:27,916 --> 01:57:29,291 Badly? Yes, sir. 1576 01:57:29,376 --> 01:57:32,169 But she is underway again. Operational. 1577 01:57:32,546 --> 01:57:36,382 My gosh, our whole force may be in jeopardy 1578 01:57:36,466 --> 01:57:38,217 if the Japanese located the Yorktown. 1579 01:57:38,301 --> 01:57:40,845 They still got a tremendous fleet out there, Admiral. 1580 01:57:40,929 --> 01:57:43,889 But that fourth carrier can't be far off. 1581 01:57:45,225 --> 01:57:48,227 We've already won a great victory, Admiral. 1582 01:57:49,146 --> 01:57:51,272 Maybe we ought to get our people out of there. 1583 01:57:51,815 --> 01:57:53,649 You mean, break off, run for home? 1584 01:57:54,151 --> 01:57:56,152 Before they can hurt us again? Yes, sir. 1585 01:57:59,865 --> 01:58:02,658 Well, that might be the smart play, Commander. 1586 01:58:02,743 --> 01:58:06,537 Trouble is, I want that fourth carrier. 1587 01:58:21,428 --> 01:58:22,470 What's the matter? 1588 01:58:22,554 --> 01:58:25,347 Your right wing tank, Lieutenant, it's punctured. 1589 01:58:25,432 --> 01:58:26,932 We haven't had time to repair it. 1590 01:58:27,017 --> 01:58:28,058 Is the left tank fuelled? 1591 01:58:28,143 --> 01:58:29,226 Yes, sir. 1592 01:58:30,353 --> 01:58:33,689 A few hours ago we filled the sky with our planes. 1593 01:58:33,774 --> 01:58:38,402 Now we win or lose with six fighters and 10 torpedo planes. 1594 01:58:47,788 --> 01:58:50,164 The skipper wants to know if can you maintain this speed, Delaney. 1595 01:58:50,248 --> 01:58:51,248 DELANEY: Eighteen knots, sir. 1596 01:58:51,333 --> 01:58:53,083 Eighteen knots. Very good. 1597 01:58:53,168 --> 01:58:54,543 Yeah, sure, we're ready to launch. 1598 01:58:54,628 --> 01:58:56,879 All we gotta do is find this fourth Jap flattop. 1599 01:58:56,963 --> 01:58:58,339 CIC OFFICER: Bridge-phone, Combat. 1600 01:58:58,423 --> 01:58:59,507 Go ahead, Combat. 1601 01:58:59,758 --> 01:59:01,383 Sir, report from Scouting 5. 1602 01:59:01,468 --> 01:59:03,928 Lieutenant Adams has located the fourth enemy flattop. 1603 01:59:04,971 --> 01:59:07,348 Good. Relay our position to Admiral Fletcher. 1604 01:59:07,432 --> 01:59:09,350 Aye-aye, sir. We found him, Delaney. 1605 01:59:09,434 --> 01:59:11,310 Okay, just give us all the old lady's got left. 1606 01:59:11,394 --> 01:59:12,436 Bridge-phone, Combat. 1607 01:59:12,521 --> 01:59:13,562 Go ahead, Combat. 1608 01:59:13,730 --> 01:59:17,441 Sir, radar has bandits. Distance, 35 miles, closing. 1609 01:59:17,526 --> 01:59:18,818 This time, they're coming in low. 1610 01:59:18,902 --> 01:59:19,985 Torpedo attack! 1611 01:59:20,070 --> 01:59:21,904 Sound general quarters! Aye-aye, sir. 1612 01:59:21,988 --> 01:59:23,280 Let's get everything we have left airborne 1613 01:59:23,365 --> 01:59:24,990 while we still can. Guess we better. 1614 01:59:25,075 --> 01:59:26,826 MAN ON PA: General quarters! General quarters! 1615 01:59:26,910 --> 01:59:29,453 All hands man your battle stations! 1616 02:00:48,909 --> 02:00:50,159 Right, full rudder! 1617 02:00:50,285 --> 02:00:51,535 Right, full rudder, aye! 1618 02:01:09,471 --> 02:01:11,764 Watch out there! Get outside! 1619 02:01:26,863 --> 02:01:27,863 Get Fred out of here. 1620 02:01:28,031 --> 02:01:29,031 This way. 1621 02:02:21,584 --> 02:02:23,919 Whirlwind, this is Zephyr 3! 1622 02:02:24,421 --> 02:02:25,921 Two torpedoes hit the carrier! 1623 02:02:26,297 --> 02:02:30,634 I repeat, two torpedoes hit the carrier! Returning to base. 1624 02:02:30,719 --> 02:02:34,138 Now it's one against one, Admiral. Congratulations. 1625 02:02:39,102 --> 02:02:41,729 Delaney, what's the situation below? 1626 02:02:41,980 --> 02:02:43,522 No good, sir. All boilers are out. 1627 02:02:43,606 --> 02:02:44,732 There's no hope of relighting them. 1628 02:02:44,983 --> 02:02:47,151 Get your people topside, and on the double! 1629 02:02:47,235 --> 02:02:48,527 Aye-aye, sir. 1630 02:02:52,449 --> 02:02:56,744 Larry, radio Enterprise, we'll land there after we make our bomb run. 1631 02:02:56,828 --> 02:02:57,870 Yes, sir. 1632 02:02:57,954 --> 02:03:00,706 Blue Leader to Home Plate! Blue Leader to Home Plate! 1633 02:03:03,752 --> 02:03:05,085 How many are we sending out? 1634 02:03:05,211 --> 02:03:06,837 Twenty-four dive-bombers, sir. 1635 02:03:06,921 --> 02:03:09,882 We'll have to try it without fighter protection. 1636 02:03:10,383 --> 02:03:11,675 What about the Hornet? 1637 02:03:11,801 --> 02:03:13,135 Scraping the bottom of the barrel. 1638 02:03:13,219 --> 02:03:14,720 Sixteen dive-bombers left, 1639 02:03:14,804 --> 02:03:18,766 plus the three that Matt Garth is bringing over from the Yorktown. 1640 02:03:19,267 --> 02:03:22,436 Signal the Hornet, we attack immediately. 1641 02:03:22,520 --> 02:03:23,979 Aye-aye, sir. 1642 02:04:32,757 --> 02:04:35,467 Sir, it couldn't have been the same carrier Kobayashi dive-bombed. 1643 02:04:35,552 --> 02:04:37,469 She was undamaged and under full steam. 1644 02:04:37,554 --> 02:04:39,221 We put two torpedoes into it. 1645 02:04:39,305 --> 02:04:43,350 Kobayashi said he left the carrier on fire. Did you see any smoke? 1646 02:04:43,434 --> 02:04:45,602 No, sir, it must have sunk. 1647 02:04:45,687 --> 02:04:47,521 We didn't see a third carrier, either. 1648 02:04:47,605 --> 02:04:50,023 Dive alert! Enemy dive-bombers! 1649 02:06:10,146 --> 02:06:12,856 Sir, we must withdraw. 1650 02:06:15,485 --> 02:06:18,195 How will we apologize to His Majesty? 1651 02:06:19,155 --> 02:06:20,906 Leave that to me. 1652 02:06:21,407 --> 02:06:28,080 I am the only one who must apologize to His Majesty. 1653 02:06:44,264 --> 02:06:45,681 Thank you. 1654 02:06:46,849 --> 02:06:48,684 That was the LSO, sir. 1655 02:06:48,893 --> 02:06:52,187 Matt Garth is coming in. His plane is all shot up. 1656 02:08:27,533 --> 02:08:30,619 Well, I wonder if Matt knew how big we won. 1657 02:08:31,996 --> 02:08:34,456 I don't know, but I think I know what he'd have said. 1658 02:08:36,042 --> 02:08:38,668 "It doesn't make any sense, Admiral. 1659 02:08:39,545 --> 02:08:41,671 "Yamamoto had everything going for him. 1660 02:08:41,756 --> 02:08:45,133 "Power, experience, confidence. 1661 02:08:46,761 --> 02:08:50,222 "Were we better than the Japanese, or just luckier?" 129624

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