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* ReadingTheEnemysMail: The American military has the capability to decrypt Japanese diplomatic codes, but this capability is kept very very secret. The President is actually removed from the list of people authorized to handle the decrypted messages after one of his staff members improperly disposes of a decrypted message. This adds to the [[PoorCommunicationKills information lag]] that contributes to the Americans being unprepared for the attack.
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* RaysFromHeaven: Lieutenant Commander Fuchida notices the morning sun breaking through the last of the storm clouds, and remarks to his comrades that its rays remind him of the Japanese victory flag that was raised when they launched from the carriers. This is regarded by all the Japanese pilots as a good omen: in effect, the blessing of heaven upon their mission to ravage Pearl Harbor.
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* DramaticIrony: See CryingWolf.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: Hobo Flight, a formation of unarmed B-17s arriving from California, scatters when they encounter the Japanese attack. Justified in this case, as the bombers are unarmed and have no escorts, so splitting up is their only hope of any of them surviving as a formation of unarmed bombers would be an irresistible target to the Japanese fighters.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Admiral Yamamoto.
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* PuppetKing: The Emperor is opposed to war with America. And as all the power in the government is held by the Cabinet, the Emperor's opinion carries shockingly little weight.
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* DangerDeadpan: The officer in command of the battleship ''Nevada'' The base is under fierce attack, his ship is in flames and sinking, and he is calmly issuing orders maneuvering the ship through the harbor and beaching it so as to avoid blocking the channel.
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* DangerDeadpan: The officer in command of the battleship ''Nevada'' ''Nevada.'' The base is under fierce attack, his ship is in flames and sinking, and he is calmly issuing orders maneuvering the ship through the harbor and beaching it so as to avoid blocking the channel.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: A base commander, wanting to leave at least some of his planes protected from air attack, sends small detachments of fighters to various outlying airfields. Two pilots, Welsh and Taylor, assume that they are being sent to Haleiwa Field as punishment for fleecing their fellow pilots in poker games.
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* ComingInHot: Hobo One's B-17 is unable to lower one of their landing gear due to damage from a Japanese fighter, so they bring it in on one wheel and drop the other wing right onto the pavement. Another B-17 attempts to land but is waved off because they've got a fighter on their tail.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A biplane with a student and instructor pilot are doing their own thing when the Japanese bombers overtake them. The instructor pilot and one of the Japanese pilots stare at each other [[{{Beat}} for a few long moments]] before the instructor rolls the biplane into a dive and gets the hell out of there.
** At Hobo One's orders, the formation of B-17s (unarmed since they were just on a ferrying mission) scatters when they run into the Japanese aircraft, with the planes making for different airfields in hope of finding a safe place to land.
** At Hobo One's orders, the formation of B-17s (unarmed since they were just on a ferrying mission) scatters when they run into the Japanese aircraft, with the planes making for different airfields in hope of finding a safe place to land.
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* CryingWolf: Decrypted Japanese diplomatic messages, plus observations of their military movements, lead the US military to think Hawaii and the Philippines are going to be attacked on 30 November, 1941. When the actual attack is predicted a week later, there is an uphill battle to get anyone to take it seriously.
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* FighterLaunchingSequence FighterLaunchingSequence: Most of the American fighters are destroyed on the ground, [[SittingDucks including many trying to get into the air.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills - Admiral Stark dithers instead of informing Kimmel of the Japanese ultimatum.
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* PoorCommunicationKills - Admiral Stark dithers instead of informing Kimmel of the Japanese ultimatum. An Army officer in Washington fails to loop his Navy counterpart in on the fact that they are trying to pass a warning message to the US forces in Hawaii, due to the assumption that the Navy personnel would face the same difficulties they were in passing the message along.
** It gets worse: They send the message by telegraph, but they don't mark it urgent, so the message sits in a pile for some time before it is delivered.
** It gets worse: They send the message by telegraph, but they don't mark it urgent, so the message sits in a pile for some time before it is delivered.
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* BadassBystander: A black Navy cook takes up a machine gun after the gun crew are killed, and manages to shoot down one of the Japanese planes.
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* BadassBystander: A Doris Miller, a black Navy cook cook, takes up a machine gun on the ''West Virginia'' after the gun crew are killed, and manages to shoot down one of the Japanese planes.
* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: {{Inverted}}. Admiral Yamamoto was a liason officer in the US, and studied at Harvard, and declares that the Americans are a [[WorthyOpponent proud and just people.]]
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* PointDefenseless: The American defenders are caught by surprise, and the Japanese attackers are on top of them before they can open fire. Even so, they still manage to tag a few of the enemy planes.
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* PointDefenseless: The American defenders are caught by surprise, and the Japanese attackers are on top of them before they can open fire. [[DownplayedTrope Even so, so]], they still manage to tag a few of the enemy planes.
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* ThemeNaming: The American battleships were all named for US states. The cruisers and destroyers also had their own themes (cities and troops who died in battle, respectively), but feature far less prominently.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A Japanese bomber drops an armor-piercing bomb that sets off the [[MadeOfExplodium powder magazine]] of the battleship ''Arizona''. The resulting explosion blows the ship apart, resulting in over a thousand officers and crew killed.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A Japanese bomber drops an armor-piercing bomb that sets off the [[MadeOfExplodium powder magazine]] of the battleship ''Arizona''. The resulting explosion blows the ship apart, resulting in over a thousand officers and crew killed.
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'''Cordell Hull:''' In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen a document so crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.
'''Ambassador Nomura:''' [pleading] Mr. Hull...
'''Cordell Hull:''' [wearily] [[GetOut Go!]]
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'''Cordell Hull:''' [wearily] [[GetOut Go!]]
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A Japanese bomber drops an armor-piercing bomb that sets off the [[MadeOfExplodium powder magazine]] of the battleship ''Arizona''. The resulting explosion blows the ship apart, resulting in over a thousand officers and crew killed.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: US Secretary of States Cordell Hull is [[{{Understatement}} not amused]] to receive the Japanese ultimatum ''after'' the attack on Pearl Harbor.
'''Cordell Hull:''' In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen a document so crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.
'''Ambassador Nomura:''' [pleading] Mr. Hull...
'''Cordell Hull:''' [wearily] [[GetOut Go!]]
'''Cordell Hull:''' In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen a document so crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.
'''Ambassador Nomura:''' [pleading] Mr. Hull...
'''Cordell Hull:''' [wearily] [[GetOut Go!]]
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* DangerDeadpan: The officer in command of the battleship ''Nevada'' The base is under fierce attack, his ship is in flames and sinking, and he is calmly issuing orders maneuvering the ship through the harbor and beaching it so as to avoid blocking the channel.
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* MoreDakka: The American P-40 Warhawk fighters are shown tearing into Japanese bombers with their six machine guns
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** Once two Army pilots get up in the air, the tail gunners on the Japanese planes prove unable to deter them.
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* BadassBystander: A black Navy cook takes up a machine gun after the gun crew are killed, and manages to shoot down one of the Japanese planes.
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* CaptainObvious - Justified. Someone angrily pointed out the window during the attack as proof to one of the {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s there was reason to be concerned about an attack.
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* CaptainObvious - Justified. Someone An officer [[NotNowKiddo who tried to pass up a warning earlier that morning]] angrily pointed points out the window during the attack as proof to one of the {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s there was reason to be concerned about an attack.
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* PointDefenseless: The American defenders are caught by surprise, and the Japanese attackers are on top of them before they can open fire. Even so, they still manage to tag a few of the enemy planes.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The B-17 flight commander, upon realizing that they have just witlessly flown headlong into WorldWarII.
-->'''Hobo One:''' What a way to fly into a war. Unarmed and out of gas.
-->'''Hobo One:''' What a way to fly into a war. Unarmed and out of gas.
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* FriendOrFoe: The Japanese force is spotted on radar, and the sighting is called in. The officer who receives the report assumes it is a formation of friendly B-17s expected that morning.
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* RedAlert: Three times in the film:
** The Americans in Hawaii go on full alert when available intel suggests that the Japanese are going to attack... on 30 November, 1941. Obviously, it turns out to be a false alarm.
** The USS ''Ward'' spots the periscope of a Japanese midget submarine attempting to follow an American ship into the harbor. They go to General Quarters, then close with the submarine and destroy it. Their message warning the higher-ups of the encounter [[PoorCommunicationKills is not passed along fast enough.]]
** Finally, when the Japanese attack, the Americans finally sound the alarm, but it's too little, too late.
* SittingDucks: The American planes are grouped together in the middle of the airfields to protect from saboteurs, which only serves them up as perfect targets for the air attack. The Air Corps officers are [[GenreSavvy painfully aware of this]], but unable to do much about their orders.
** The Americans in Hawaii go on full alert when available intel suggests that the Japanese are going to attack... on 30 November, 1941. Obviously, it turns out to be a false alarm.
** The USS ''Ward'' spots the periscope of a Japanese midget submarine attempting to follow an American ship into the harbor. They go to General Quarters, then close with the submarine and destroy it. Their message warning the higher-ups of the encounter [[PoorCommunicationKills is not passed along fast enough.]]
** Finally, when the Japanese attack, the Americans finally sound the alarm, but it's too little, too late.
* SittingDucks: The American planes are grouped together in the middle of the airfields to protect from saboteurs, which only serves them up as perfect targets for the air attack. The Air Corps officers are [[GenreSavvy painfully aware of this]], but unable to do much about their orders.
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* WarIsHell: An [[OldSoldier old officer]] watching the Japanese pilots about to take off observes that the men are in such good spirits because they have not yet experienced war.
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* ImperialJapan - arguably their finest hour, for a given value of "finest",
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* ImperialJapan - arguably their finest hour, for a given value of "finest","finest".
* InterserviceRivalry: Quite a bit of political in-fighting between the Imperial Army and Navy in the lead-up to the attack.
* InterserviceRivalry: Quite a bit of political in-fighting between the Imperial Army and Navy in the lead-up to the attack.
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The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. "Tora" is Japanese for "tiger".
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Japanese military planning the attack on TheBigBoard.]]
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* LostInTransmission - Numerous examples, mostly '''Type 1a'''.
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** It would have made no difference in the long run if he had. Never pick fights with major industrial powers.
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Compare ''PearlHarbor''.
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Compare ''PearlHarbor''.''Film/PearlHarbor''.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a member of the [[BattleEpic "historical" school of war movies]], alongside ''TheLongestDay'', ''ABridgeTooFar'' and ''Film/BattleOfBritain''. The filmmakers didn't use the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a backdrop to a fictional story; the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the events leading to it, in their full sweep, ''is'' the story.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a member of the [[BattleEpic "historical" school of war movies]], alongside ''TheLongestDay'', ''ABridgeTooFar'' ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' and ''Film/BattleOfBritain''. The filmmakers didn't use the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a backdrop to a fictional story; the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the events leading to it, in their full sweep, ''is'' the story.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a member of the [[BattleEpic "historical" school of war movies]], alongside ''TheLongestDay'', ''ABridgeTooFar'' and ''[[BattleOfBritain The Battle Of Britain]]''. The filmmakers didn't use the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a backdrop to a fictional story; the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the events leading to it, in their full sweep, ''is'' the story.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a member of the [[BattleEpic "historical" school of war movies]], alongside ''TheLongestDay'', ''ABridgeTooFar'' and ''[[BattleOfBritain The Battle Of Britain]]''.''Film/BattleOfBritain''. The filmmakers didn't use the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a backdrop to a fictional story; the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the events leading to it, in their full sweep, ''is'' the story.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a 1970 film telling the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Unusually, the film was made by two almost independent units -- an American unit directed by Richard Fleischer, and a Japanese unit directed by Kinji Fukasaku. This technique would be repeated with its [[SpiritualSuccessor pseudo-sequel]] ''{{Midway}}''. The original idea was to blend the two stories seamlessly, until Fleischer realized it would be better to let the two halves retain contrasting styles.
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''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' is a 1970 film telling the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Unusually, the film was made by two almost independent units -- an American unit directed by Richard Fleischer, and a Japanese unit directed by Kinji Fukasaku.Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda. This technique would be repeated with its [[SpiritualSuccessor pseudo-sequel]] ''{{Midway}}''. The original idea was to blend the two stories seamlessly, until Fleischer realized it would be better to let the two halves retain contrasting styles.
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->''I fear all we have done is to [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant awake awaken a sleeping giant]] and fill him with a terrible resolve''resolve.''
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* JerryGoldsmith
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-->'''Lieutenant Kaminsky:''' "You wanted confirmation, Captain? Take a look! There's your confirmation!"
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* EveryBulletIsATracer - Inverted, oddly enough. There was tracer fire at Pearl Harbor, but not in this movie.
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'''Admiral Yamamoto'''
