[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.

[bravo whiskey]

i have a friend whose dad was stationed at pearl harbor during the filming. there is a scene with a lot of smoke in the background. turns out they needed to hide the distinctive silhouette of CVN-65 ENTERPRISE which was in for repairs after the hanger fire on yankee station.