In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Bu son derece etkileyici drama, II. Dünya Savaşı'nda gerçekleşen Bulge Savaşı sırasında Alman hatları arkasında kalan savaş yorgunu bir piyade bölüğünü anlatmaktadır. Ev özlemiyle yanan ve karla kaplı siperlerde soğuktan titreyen askerler acıya, ıstıraba ve üzüntüye bastırılamaz bir mizah ve amansız bir alay ile katlanmaktadırlar. Hiçbiri kahraman olmak niyetinde değildir ama hepsi de kendilerinden beklenen cesareti göstermeye hazırdır.
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.