<P> Next morning, on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor . The US Pacific Fleet suffers severe damage in the surprise attack, and most of the defending airfields are obliterated before they are able to launch fighters to defend the harbor . Rafe and Danny manage to take off in P - 40 fighter planes, and are able to shoot down seven of the attacking planes before the Japanese withdraw . </P> <P> The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and requests the US Congress declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan . The survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead . Later, Danny and Rafe are both assigned to travel stateside under newly promoted Lt. Colonel Doolittle for a secret mission . Before they leave, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child, and intends to stay with Danny . </P> <P> Upon their arrival in California, Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the Silver Star, and volunteer for a secret mission under Doolittle . During the next three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B - 25 Mitchell bombers . In April, the raiders are sent towards Japan on board USS Hornet . Their mission: bomb Tokyo, after doing so they will land in allied China . The mission is successful, except at the end Rafe and Danny's plane crashes . They are held at gunpoint by Japanese soldiers . A gunfight ensues, and Danny is mortally wounded shielding Rafe . Rafe tearfully reveals to Danny that Evelyn is pregnant with his child; with Danny's dying breaths he tells Rafe that it is his child now . After the war, Rafe and Evelyn, now married, visit Danny's grave with Danny and Evelyn's son, also named Danny . Rafe then asks his stepson if he would like to go flying, and they fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that his father once had . </P> <Ul> <Li> Ben Affleck as the First Lieutenant (later Captain) Rafe McCawley <Ul> <Li> Jesse James as young Rafe McCawley </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Josh Hartnett as First Lieutenant (later Captain) Daniel "Danny" Walker <Ul> <Li> Reiley McClendon as young Danny Walker </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Kate Beckinsale as Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson McCawley </Li> <Li> Cuba Gooding Jr. as Petty Officer Second Class Dorie Miller </Li> <Li> Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Earl Sistern </Li> <Li> Jon Voight as President Franklin D. Roosevelt </Li> <Li> Colm Feore as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel </Li> <Li> Mako as Kaigun Taishō (Admiral) Isoroku Yamamoto </Li> <Li> Alec Baldwin as Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Jimmy Doolittle </Li> </Ul>

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