Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie (1970)
Alternative English title : Tora! Tora! Tora!: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Starring:
Martin Balsam (Adm. Husband E. Kimmel)
Sô Yamamura (Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto)
Joseph Cotten (Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson)
Tatsuya Mihashi (Cmdr. Minoru Genda)
E.G. Marshall (Lt. Col. Rufus S. Bratton)
James Whitmore (Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.)
A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
North American T-6 Texan
Modified North American T-6 Texans used as stand-ins for the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
Vultee BT-13 Valiant
Beside the T-6, modified Vultee BT-13 Valiants are also used as stand-ins for the Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers. Look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
If most of the ships seen through the movie are models, take-offs were done from the USS Yorktown (CV-10) acting as one of the following Japanese carrier : Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Shokaku, Soryu and Zuikaku.
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
Boeing-Stearman Model 75
Fake registration (NC 34307).
Boeing B-17F/G Flying Fortress (acting as B-17 Es)
To portray the then scarce B-17E, the makers of Tora! Tora! Tora! used later models of the B-17 modified to resemble the earlier model. These aircrafts include :
- B-17F 42-29782 now displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle as "Boeing Bee"; already seen in The Thousand Plane Raid and later in Memphis Belle.
- B-17G 44-83563 owned by the Wings of Eagles Museum in Santa Ana California as "Fuddy Duddy"; same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
- B-17G 44-85829 now flown by the Yankee Air Museum in Willow Run Michigan as "Yankee Lady" (Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing)).
The two others (including Reg. N620L s/n 44-85840, lost with its crew on 12 July 1973) were used as fire fighting bombers and were lost in action during the seventies.
Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
Two former RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) privately owned Curtiss P-40Es were used for the dogfight.
- Registration N1207V, c/n 18796. Ordered by the RAF as serial AL152, delivered to the RCAF with serial 1082. To the civilian market with registration N1207V in 1947. Later reregistered N95JB in 1987. Nowadays she is preserved at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
- Registration N5672N, c/n 18723. Ordered by the RAF as serial AK979, delivered to the RCAF with serial 1064. To the civilian market after the war and registered N5672N in 1948. Later carried registrations N151U, N9DA, N41JR, N41JA, and N40FT. Now preserved at Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Curtiss P-40 Mock
Despite acting as Curtiss P-40 B/C which has a different shape, two dozens of mocks similar to the flyable aircraft were built with fiber glass (some powered in order to taxi). Of course, none of them could fly.
Same footage reused for The Final Countdown - look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Vultee BT-15 Valiant (as Aichi D3A)
Registration N67629, c/n 42-42171. Same aircraft in other movie at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
From a trailer found on the Patton DVD.
Vought OS2U Kingfisher
A 1:1 scale model. Footage reused in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Douglas A-20 Havoc
This Havoc is in fact a accidented B-25, modified by addition of a single tail.
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