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Naval Warfare Movies

Tora! Tora! Tora!

, Richard Fleischer, Ray Kellogg, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore
1970, US, 144 min.
Other

This is the VHS release.

Summary

This movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor includes a scene of a USN destroyer sinking a Japanese mini sub.


Notes

Historical note: The warship that sank the Japanese submarine outside Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 was the Maury-class destroyer U.S.S. Benham. This was the first enemy submarine sunk by a US naval vessel in World War II.

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