Pearl Harbor Page #19

The Zeros that followed them sweep down, strafing. One

mechanic, running across the field with a belt of ammo, goes

down. Coma, running behind him, picks up the fallen man's

ammo and his own, bringing both to the planes behind the hut.

He, Red, and Anthony reload the machine guns in Rafe and

Danny's planes.

Rafe and Danny gun their engines and head back into the air,

the grounded pilots firing a covering barrage and Earl even

coming up with a 12-gauge shotgun to fire at the Zeros as

they rush past.

EXT. SKIES OVER PACIFIC - DAY

The Second Wave of Japanese planes is in tight formation.

INT. LEAD PLANE OF SECOND WAVE - DAY

Lt. Commander SHIMAZAKI, leader of the second attack wave,

says calmly into his radio...

SHIMAZAKI:

Second wave, deploy over the military

bases. High level bombers to the air

stations, dive bombers attack ships in

harbor. Fighters strafe and cover.

He leads the second wave in on their attack run...

EXT. NAVAL AIR STATION - DAY

The navy's planes, bunched up on the naval airfield, are

destroyed without ever getting into the air.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The harbor is already a mass of destruction and panic;

screaming everywhere, men trying to fight fires, move the

wounded; the second wave of planes hits, and tremendous

explosions now rock the secondary ships like the destroyer

SHAW, blasting it apart.

But the Japanese pilots are now having trouble with the thick

black smoke coming out of the damaged ships, and off the oil

fires along the water. One torpedo plane, its pilot flying

blind, clips the superstructure of a battleship and spins to

a crash.

Still, even IN THE CHAOS ON THE SHIPS, the sailors struggle

to survive, inventively. Men trapped on one burning ship use

the severed barrel of a five-inch naval gun as a bridge to

cross to the less damaged ship anchored beside them.

Others jump into the water and swim through the burning oil,

towing buddies too wounded to swim themselves.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

Below decks, sailors have organized a line and are passing

ammunition from the ammo lockers, hand to hand up to the guns

on deck. Blasts from bombs hit them and ignite the ammo

they're holding, setting off a chain reaction of explosions.

On the deck, the sailors are out of ammo. An OFFICER grabs a

SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SAILOR.

OFFICER:

Grab a dinghy and get ammo from the base

ammo storeroom.

The young sailor jumps to a dinghy and launches it through

the oily waters and thick black smoke.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The sailors in the boat get strafed, the rounds cutting

between them and blasting their boat in two. They jump into

the oily water and swim toward shore.

Other sailors are in the water with them, struggling,

swallowing the vile black liquid as they battle to swim.

Errant bombs and shrapnel hit beside them, killing some;

other lose strength and slide beneath the surface.

The sailors from the ammo boat make it ashore; it's hot there

too, with bullets and bombs all around. One sailor has to

stop and puke from the oil; his buddy grabs him and they run

for cover; they find it in the dugout of the baseball

diamond.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

A MARINE GUNNERY SERGEANT leads men in a race through

strafing fire to the bases ammo storeroom.

INT. AMMO STOREROOM - DAY

The SUPPLY SERGEANT is at his post.

GUNNERY SERGEANT

We need weapons and ammo!

SUPPLY SERGEANT:

You need authorization.

GUNNERY SERGEANT

The f*** I do!

He pushes the man out of the way and starts grabbing weapons.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

The gunnery sergeant and his marines run with a water-cooled

machine gun, across the open ground, under fire.

BARRACKS:

The Marines set up in the windows of their already-strafed

barracks, and start firing there, as the Zeros scream past.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY

Trucks are moving dependents -- women and children -- from

the dependents' housing area. The Japanese strafe the

trucks, dependents diving for cover.

NAVAL STATION:

A fire engine from the Honolulu Fire Department races up to

the sight of buildings burning from the air attack. As the

firemen jump out, a Zero strafes them, gunning down the

firemen.

As the strafing Zero starts to bank away, two P-40's come in

behind it, both of them gunning away. The Zero comes apart

under the barrage, and crashes in a ball of flame.

It's Rafe and Danny, back in the air.

INT. MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - DAY

The once-pristine hospital with its glowing white beds is now

a bloody chaos. Every bed is already full; there are burned

and broken people on the floor -- soldiers, sailors,

civilians, firemen, all mixed in together. People are dying

everywhere, and screaming in pain, or moaning and begging for

help. At first we don't see Evelyn, and wonder if she

survived the glass; then we see her, flecks of her own blood

dotting her face and arms. The blood of soldiers on her

surgical apron. A steel calm has replaced her earlier

frenzy, even as the other nurses are breaking down.

SANDRA:

I can't tell who's gotten morphine and

who hasn't!

EVELYN:

Take a grease pencil and mark an M on the

forehead of everyone you stick.

A young doctor is trying to give an intravenous injection to

a man who's badly charred; the doctors hands are shaking.

EVELYN:

Don't look for a vein, just poke.

SANDRA:

My pen's dry!

EVELYN:

Use lipstick. Use ammo belts for

tourniquets, use your own nylons if you

have to! Barbara! Grab anything that

will hold a pint of blood and sterilize

it.

The doctors are amputating limbs right there in the hallway.

A SENIOR DOCTOR calls --

SENIOR DOCTOR:

Evelyn! You have to do the triage!

They're bringing them in with trucks!

Evelyn moves to the door. Trucks are pulling up, loaded with

the wounded, young terrified soldiers bringing them inside;

Evelyn does quick triage as they pass.

EVELYN:

Critical -- front ward!... Give him

morphine, he can't wait...

The next body through is a pilot, wings on his uniform, his

chest riddled with bullets -- and his face shot off. For a

moment Evelyn falters, then she forces herself to check the

dog tags...

It isn't Rafe or Danny. Evelyn sags in guilty relief.

EVELYN:

Take him outside and cover him; he's

dead.

She steadies herself as the next body comes through, a woman

on a stretcher, her stomach shot open, pale hands clutching

at the open wound. Evelyn feels for a pulse.

EVELYN:

She's gone too, take her --

It's Betty.

And though the bombs are blasting and guns booming

everywhere, the world goes silent for Evelyn.

One of the sailors outside the door is pointing to the

harbor, the Nevada has begun to move.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The battleship NEVADA is underway, plowing through the

harbor, as the water erupts with bombs.

INT. THE NEVADA'S BRIDGE - DAY

The Captain is struggling to save his ship.

CAPTAIN OF THE NEVADA

We can save her if we make the open sea!

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - POV THE ATTACKING PLANES - DAY

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