What a waste of an historical event

Rating: 1/10 (22 November 2017)

When I asked a friend of mine about this movie, he told me "don't go see it." "Its a lousy love story with the attack on Pearl Harbor thrown in."
But I saw it anyway. What a disappointment. I love history, especially World War Two. I collect original period items and even have a helmet worn by a Marine on Dec. 7th, 1941 at Ewa Field.
But this movie is so hokey. How does the Army Air Corp. allow a stuttering pilot to stay in. They character of Lt. Red Winkle is annoying. He can't even say the yell out the Japanese are attacking without stuttering horrible. That would cost lives in a war.
Alex Baldwin, that America hater and veteran hater, as Jimmy Doolittle. I grew up admiring Doolittle and even met him as a teen. But Baldwin is a complete disgrace in uniform.
The attack on Tokyo was inaccurate. The bombers flew in one at a time as they were spread out by hundreds of miles. A better movie is "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."
And how does a dead American make it back from China in a pine box. The Tokyo Raiders spent weeks trying to get back from China, with the Chinese help.
And finally the P-40 our heroes fly during the attack on Pearl Harbor could never turn with a Zero. The P-40 could outrun the Zero but never out turn it.
I was frankly bored with the movie. Adding the token black character of Dorey Miller was useless. What was the point. None.