[21twelve]

“Tora, Tora” Tora” (1968) is THE Pearl Harbor movie that set the bar high for Hollywood docudramas.

As a kid I went to two movies with my family. The first was “The Sound of Music”. The second was “Tora-Tora-Tora”. I can’t believe it was in 1968! My memory of going there with my mom and dad is still vivid. (Big brother was off to college, and I guess my sisters didn’t want to go!). I’m not so sure mom wanted to go either - but...

[MasterGunner01]

One of the guys on our ship was at Pearl Harbor doing filming of “Tora, Tora, Tora”. He was a extra in a scene where a Japanese bomber dropped a bomb on a barracks. As an extra, he was to run away from the barracks just before the pyro man blew up the building. On the signal, all the extras ran like their lives depended on it (they did) and the building went up in a magnificent explosion. He said his big scene was later cut from the final print. That's showbiz I guess.