Thoughts for the day -- Pearl Harbor

shogun
Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:25:37 +0000

We visited Pearl Harbor on one of the days they were filming the Ben Affleck movie “Pearl Harbor”. It was very weird standing on the Arizona Memorial and the USS Missouri while Japanese torpedo planes and fighters with their big red “meatballs” on the wings and fuselage (followed closely by film helicoptors) were buzzing the harbor. They had mock torpedos hanging below them and the fighters were flying escourt. This went on for a couple of hours–I got lots of interesting video of these “Japanese” planes flying low over the water as they filmed the dropping of torpedos. They were prepping the deck of the Missouri for filming the next day (the ship was to play the part of the Tennessee that day)