When We Met Again World War Ii Japanese Girl and Friend

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• A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows 2 lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught upward in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning time in 1941.

• Pearl Harbor is a archetype tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny get Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and he and Evelyn and Rafe hook upwards. Then Rafe volunteers to get fight in Great britain, and Evelyn and Danny go transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting, all of a sudden one morning comes the air raid we now know equally "Pearl Harbor."

• Rafe and Danny are all-time friends who are as well pilots. When World War II breaks out in Europe, America chooses not to join only they train nonetheless, and so Rafe and Danny join the Army Air Corps. Rafe falls for a nurse named Evelyn, but when he gets the opportunity to bring together the British Air Corps, he jumps at it. Shortly subsequently he leaves, he gets shot downwards and is reported killed. Danny and Evelyn, stationed in Pearl Harbor, lean on each other after learning this tragic news. Only suddenly Rafe returns, and when he finds out almost them, he freaks out and goes later Danny. But all of a sudden Pearl Harbor is attacked and they shoot down some planes attacking them. Roosevelt decides to retaliate against Japan, and Colonel Doolittle is placed in charge and asks Rafe and Danny to join him. They accept, knowing the chances of coming back are slim. But things between them are still tense.

• American adolescence friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker enter World War II every bit pilots. Rafe is so eager to take part in the state of war that he departs to fight in Europe aslope England's Royal Air Forcefulness. On the homefront, his girlfriend Evelyn, finds comfort in Danny's arms. The three reunite in Hawaii just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.

• The archetype story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is told through the optics of two boyhood friends now serving equally officers in the Regular army Air Corps. Rafe is an energetic young pilot who is selected to fly with the British in Europe while America is still not at war. After Rafe is shot downwardly and presumed killed, Danny comforts Rafe's former lover Evelyn, and the two draw closer. Simply when Rafe turns up alive, the two former friends go enemies, and it is through the turmoil of Pearl Harbour that the two might reconcile their differences.

• It's Sunday morning time, December 7, 1941. After being presumed dead during the Battle of Britain, Capt. Rafe McCawley struggles in his relationship with Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson, who besides attracts his all-time friend, Capt. Danny Walker. While this is going on, Nippon is planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

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• In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley (Jesse James) and Danny Walker (Reiley McClendon), play together in the back of an onetime biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in Earth War I. After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally starts it, giving the boys their first feel at flight. Presently subsequently, Danny's father (William Fichtner) comes to take him dwelling house. He calls Rafe a "stupid boy" and beats Danny. In an endeavor to protect Danny, Rafe hits Danny'south father with an former propeller and calls him a "dingy German". Danny'south father reacts past maxim he fought the Germans in the trenches in French republic during World War I, and that he prays that no one will ever have to meet the things he saw.

  Eighteen years later, in Jan 1941, Danny (Josh Hartnett) and Rafe (Ben Affleck) are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin). Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (a RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). Rafe immediately accepts the position. Rafe lies to Danny, though, saying that he was assigned by Doolittle and had no say in the matter.

  While on a train ride to New York, a nurse named Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) tells her fellow nurses Sandra (Jennifer Garner), Betty (Jaime King), Martha (Sara Rue), and Barbara (Catherine Kellner) the story of how she met Rafe four weeks earlier after he passed his medical exam despite his dyslexia. That dark, Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and afterwards a jaunt in New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn past saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the side by side day. He asks her non to come across him off, just is pleased to see that she comes anyway as he leaves the following morning.

  In the meantime, Danny, Evelyn and their fellow pilots and nurses are transferred to Pearl Harbor, where there is little action; meanwhile, Rafe flies in numerous dogfights with the RAF confronting the Luftwaffe. During one battle, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and presumed to be killed in action. Danny gives Evelyn the news and she is devastated. It is and then that Danny learns from Evelyn that Rafe volunteered for the assignment.

  Three months afterward, Evelyn and Danny realize they are developing feelings for each other. Danny takes Evelyn for a sunset flight over the harbor and begins a relationship with her.

  On the night of Dec 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe, alive and well, standing outside her door. He explains that he survived his aircraft crash and was rescued past a French fishing gunkhole, and has been stuck in occupied French republic e'er since. Danny comes shortly afterward holding a telegram from Western Union stating that Rafe is in fact alive. Rafe realizes that Danny and Evelyn are now together and leaves feeling betrayed. He goes to the Hula bar where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed boyfriend pilots. Danny finds Rafe in the bar with the intention of making things right but a drunken Rafe will take none of it. The two get into a fight. When the police force get in, Danny and Rafe drive away and, after talking, eventually autumn asleep in their car.

  Early the next morning, on Dec seven, 1941, the Japanese navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. The two pilots drive away in search of a still standing airfield, while Evelyn and the other nurses rush for the infirmary. The nurses struggle to requite emergency treatment to hundreds of injured, some of whom must be turned away because they cannot be saved. Rafe and Danny manage to get in the air in two P-40s, shooting downwards seven Japanese Zeros, including joining the fight over Battleship Row, which is mercilessly bombed during the attack, killing thousands of American sailors and other military personnel. The adjacent twenty-four hours, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight) delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and asks the US Congress to declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan.

  In the backwash, the survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead, including swain nurses and pilots. Afterwards, Danny and Rafe are assigned to travel stateside under Major Doolittle for a secret mission. Before they exit, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child and that she volition remain with Danny, though she claims she will always love Rafe just every bit much.

  Roosevelt meets with his joint chiefs and tells them he wants a retaliatory strike confronting Japan. They offer him several options but none has the potential event he desires. The joint chiefs explain what he wants is impossible. Roosevelt counters by hoisting himself up to a standing position from his wheelchair, telling them information technology isn't. Later, his military staff meets with him and nowadays a new plan for bombing the Japanese mainland.

  Upon their inflow in California, Danny and Rafe are both promoted to captain and awarded the silver star. Doolittle asks them to volunteer for a top secret mission, which they both immediately accept although the risks are high. While sitting at a bonfire on a beach, Rafe attempts to dissuade Danny from going, but Danny decides to go anyway, thinking that Rafe is merely trying to protect him. During the side by side three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots railroad train with specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers, learning how to launch them with a limited runway the length of an American aircraft carrier. Repeated attempts to launch on the shortened runway fail until Doolittle proves information technology can happen. From then on, the unit are known equally "Doolittle'south Raiders."

  In April, the raiders are sent towards Japan on board the carrier USS Hornet, and are informed that their mission volition involve bombing Tokyo. it volition exist a lengthy flying, with little run a risk for reaching their landing site in China, hundreds of miles further West. However, the Japanese observe them early, forcing the raiders to launch from a longer distance than planned. Later on a successful bombing run against Tokyo, the raiders crash-land on Japanese-occupied territory in Prc in a rice paddy. The Japanese Ground forces pin down Rafe's plane, but Danny'southward coiffure flies over and shoots the Japanese patrol before crashing.

  Rafe runs to Danny'southward side and attempts to pull a piece of metal from Danny's cervix, but they are once again attacked by Japanese patrols. Danny is shot during the set on while the other pilots, Scarlet (Ewen Bremner) and Gooz (Michael Shannon), kill off the remaining Japanese patrolmen. Holding a dying Danny in his arms, Rafe tells Danny that he can't die because he is going to be a father, to which the dying Danny replies that Rafe will take to be the begetter. The remaining pilots are rescued by the Chinese. Upon his return home, a visibly pregnant Evelyn sees Rafe getting off the shipping, carrying Danny's coffin.

  Afterward, both Evelyn and Rafe are awarded medals. Rafe is awarded his medal by President Roosevelt, and he and Evelyn are discharged from the regular army. A few years afterwards after the war ends, Rafe and Evelyn, now married, visit Danny's grave with Danny's and Evelyn's son, as well named Danny. Rafe asks infant Danny if he would like to go flying, and the two fly off into the sunset in an quondam biplane.

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