The final scene on the pier was kinda depressing though. Two dozen tourists in aloha shirts greeting the fleet returning from one of the most epic victories in naval history. Prolly shoulda ended the movie differently.
Hirohito’s order to switch ordinance from torpedos to bombs. But for that one decision, this world would look quite different today.
PT-109, any other PT boat Captain that allowed his boat to get rammed by a Destroyer would have been court-martialed.