Editing Tora! Tora! Tora! (section)

==Historical accuracy==
[[File:USS Yorktown (CVS-10) during filming of Tora Tora Tora movie 1968.jpeg|thumb|{{USS|Yorktown|CVS-10|6}} during the filming of ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', 1968.]]
''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is regarded highly by Pearl Harbor historians and survivors for its accuracy.

Parts of the film showing the takeoff of the Japanese aircraft utilize an {{sclass|Essex|aircraft carrier}}, ''Yorktown'', which was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] in 1943 and modernized after the war to have a very slightly angled [[flight deck]].<ref>[http://www.patriotspoint.org/explore_museum/uss_yorktown/ "USS Yorktown ."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413061433/https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore_museum/uss_yorktown/ |date=2016-04-13 }} ''patriotspoint.org.'' Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref> The ship was leased by the film producers, who needed an aircraft carrier for the film, and as ''Yorktown'' was scheduled to be decommissioned in 1970, the Navy made her available. She was used largely in the takeoff sequence of the Japanese attack aircraft. The sequence shows interchanging shots of models of the Japanese aircraft carriers and ''Yorktown''. She does not look like any of the Japanese carriers involved in the attack, due to her large [[Bridge (nautical)|bridge]] island and her angled landing deck. The Japanese carriers had small bridge islands, and it wasn't until after the war that angled flight decks were developed.<ref>[[Thomas C. Hone|Hone, Thomas C.]], [[Norman Friedman]] and Mark D. Mandeles. [http://www.usnwc.edu/Publications/Naval-War-College-Press/Newport-Papers/Documents/37.pdf ''Innovation in Carrier Aviation: Newport Paper 37.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331112420/http://www.usnwc.edu/Publications/Naval-War-College-Press/Newport-Papers/Documents/37.pdf|date=2013-03-31}} Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press: 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-884733-85-7}}</ref> In addition, during the scene in which Admiral Halsey is watching bombing practice, an aircraft carrier with the hull number 14 is shown. Admiral Halsey was on {{USS|Enterprise|CV-6|6}}, not the ''Essex''-class carrier {{USS|Ticonderoga|CV-14|6}}, which would not be commissioned until 1944. This is understandable, however, as ''Enterprise'' and all six of the Japanese carriers from the attack had been scrapped or sunk.

In ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', an error involves the model of {{ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Akagi}}. In the film, ''Akagi''{{'}}s bridge island is positioned on the [[Port and starboard|starboard]] side of the ship, which is typical on most aircraft carriers. However, ''Akagi'' was an exception; her bridge island was on the [[Port and starboard|port]] side of the ship. Despite this, the bridge section appeared accurately as a mirrored version of ''Akagi''{{'}}s real port-side bridge.<ref name="Orriss p. 196">[[#refOrriss1984|Orriss 1984]], p. 196.</ref> Secondly, all the Japanese aircraft in the footage bear the markings of ''Akagi''{{'}}s aircraft (a single vertical red stripe following the red sun symbol of Japan), even though five other aircraft carriers participated, each having its own markings. In addition, the markings do not display the aircraft's identification numbers as was the case in the actual battle. The white surround on the [[roundel]] on the Japanese aircraft was only used from 1942 onwards. Prior to this, the roundel was red only.<ref name="Robertson pp. 160–161">[[#refRobertson1961|Robertson 1961]], pp. 160–161.</ref>

{{USS|Ward|DD-139}} was an old "4-piper" [[destroyer]] commissioned in 1918; the ship used in the movie, {{USS|Finch|DE-328}}, which portrays ''Ward'', looked far different from the original destroyer.<ref>[http://www.usssavagededer386.org/ToraToraTora.html "Tora, Tora, Tora, Chapter 9."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605000043/http://www.usssavagededer386.org/ToraToraTora.html |date=2013-06-05 }} ''.usssavagededer386.org.'' Retrieved: May 18, 2013.</ref> In addition, in the movie, she fired two shots from her #1 [[gun turret]]. In reality, ''Ward'' fired the first shot from the #1 {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|0}} un-turreted gunmount and the second shot from the #3 wing mount.<ref>Storch, Paul S. [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/ward_gun.pdf "Conservation Treatment of the USS Ward forward gun: Minnesota State Capital Mall."] ''Minnesota Historical Society,'' July 2006. Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref> The attack on the midget submarine by USS ''Ward'' was previously mentioned in the film ''[[In Harm's Way]]''.

A full-scale set was built representing the [[stern]] section of a U.S. Navy [[Standard-type battleship]] showing two aft gun turrets each with three gun barrels. It was used to portray both {{USS|Arizona|BB-39|6}} and {{USS|Nevada|BB-36|6}} and other battleships. It was correct for USS ''Arizona'' but incorrect for USS ''Nevada'', which had lower triple and upper twin gun turrets. The {{frac|1|15}} scale model of USS ''Nevada'' used to portray the whole ship in wide shots displayed the fore and aft turrets accurately in a 3-2-2-3 arrangement. A  [[lattice mast]] (or cage mast) section representing a {{sclass|Tennessee|battleship|0}} or {{sclass|Colorado|battleship|0}} battleship was built on the ground behind the full-scale stern set to give the appearance that the set was on [[Battleship Row]]. The USS ''Arizona''/USS ''Nevada'' stern section set was used for the explosion that destroyed USS ''Arizona'', although the explosion took place in the forward #2 [[Magazine (artillery)#Naval magazine|magazine]] and ''Arizona''{{'}}s stern section remained essentially intact.

The film has a Japanese [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero|Zero]] fighter being damaged by U.S. Navy CPO [[John William Finn]] at Naval Air Station at [[Kāneʻohe Bay]] and then deliberately crashing into a hangar. This is actually a composite of three incidents during the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]: in the first wave, a Japanese Zero crashed into [[Fort Kamehameha]]'s ordnance building; in the second wave, a Japanese Zero deliberately crashed into a hillside after Finn shot and damaged the aircraft; also during the second wave, a damaged Japanese aircraft crashed into the [[seaplane tender]] {{USS|Curtiss|AV-4|6}}.<ref>[[#refCarnes1996|Carnes 1996]], pp. 228–231.</ref>

During a number of shots of the attack squadrons traversing across Oahu, a white cross can be seen standing on one of the mountainsides. The cross was actually erected after the attack as a memorial to the victims.<ref>[http://www.hawaiiforvisitors.com/oahu/attractions/central-oahu-introduction.htm "Introduction to Central Oahu."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216062816/http://hawaiiforvisitors.com/oahu/attractions/central-oahu-introduction.htm |date=2011-12-16 }} ''hawaiiforvisitors.com.'' Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref>

The film also featured Mitsuo Fuchida and Minoru Genda asking Admiral Nagumo for a third strike, but like many of Fuchida's post war claims this has been called into question. Genda denied making such a request and he and Admiral Kusaka both denied that Fuchida did.

In the final scene, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto says: [[Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote|"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant"]]. An abridged version of this quotation is featured in the 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]''. The 2019 film ''[[Midway (2019 film)|Midway]]'' also features Yamamoto speaking aloud the "sleeping giant" quote. Although the quotation may well have encapsulated many of his real feelings about the attack, there is no printed evidence to prove Yamamoto made this statement or wrote it down.<ref>{{cite book |last=Safire |first=William |author-link=William Safire |title=Safire's Political Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0195343342 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA666 |page=666}}</ref> Director Richard Fleischer stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, [[Elmo Williams]], had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary. Williams, in turn, has stated that Larry Forrester, the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation. However, Forrester cannot produce the letter, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall it or find it. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PfdQod8HTw | title=History Buffs: Tora! Tora! Tora! | website=[[YouTube]] | date=21 June 2017 }}</ref>