Tora! Tora!Tora!

“Tora! Tora! Tora!” is a movie about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It documents the activities of the U.S. and Japanese governments leading up to December 7, 1941. The U.S. does not want Japan to sign the Tri-Partite Pact making them the third member of the Axis Alliance with Italy and Germany. U.S. Naval Intelligence develops a device to intercept and decode messages sent between Tokyo and all Japanese embassies. Even with this device they don’t see the attack on Pearl Harbor coming. U.S. commanders believe Pearl Harbor is too shallow to be attacked by torpedo planes. Shortly after four in the morning on December 7, 1941 American sailors spot a Japanese submarine just off the harbor entrance. Then, radar picks up the incoming Japanese planes, only to be interpreted as B-17s coming from the mainland. The planes made it undetected and the attack commenced at 8:00 a.m. Sunday, December 7, 1941. After the attack, Commander-in-Chief Vice Admiral Yamamoto says, “I fear all we have do...