Naval Warfare Movies


Tora! Tora! Tora!

Director: Richard Fleischer, Ray Kellogg, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore

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Published: 1970
Country: USA
Length: 144 min.
Keywords: Other

This is the VHS release (see more).

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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