Rafe and Danny gun their engines and head back into the air, the grounded pilots firing a covering barrage and Earl even coming up with a 12-gauge shotgun to fire at the Zeros as they rush past.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

The Zeros that followed them sweep down, strafing. One mechanic, running across the field with a belt of ammo, goes down. Coma, running behind him, picks up the fallen man's ammo and his own, bringing both to the planes behind the hut.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

A handful of Zeros returning from Pearl see them and follow.
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They head back. A single Zero is on their way. Rafe charges it and draws its fire; Danny comes in behind the Zero and rakes its cockpit; the Japanese pilot backs off.
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They turn back after the line of Zeros. There are some Japanese planes coming after them now, but the P-40's head at their noses, firing, then duck past in a double maneuver, and turn right back into the Japanese formation.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

A Zero comes up behind him, firing. Danny jerks his stick to maneuver but he's caught... Rafe comes in behind the Zero, chopping it up, even as he yells at Danny over the radio --
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The P-40's dig in again, swooping down on the line of Zeros.
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Rafe finishes one Zero, making it explode in a ball of flame in the air. Danny finishes the other, shooting off its wing so that it spirals into the sea and crashes there.
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EXT. ABOVE OAHU - THE DOGFIGHT - DAY The Japanese planes are in tight, disciplined formation, their minds on the targets below them in the harbor. But their day of shooting sitting ducks changes as the two P-40's blast in, wing guns blazing, chopping into Two Zeros. Both Zeros falter and begin to lose altitude. The P-40's make almost impossible tight turns, still side-by-side, and go after the two plane they crippled on the first pass.
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EXT. SKIES ABOVE PEARL HARBOR - DAY Danny and Rafe rejoin each other in the open sky; they've lost the Zeros. The P-40's are flying smoothly, side by side. The two pilots look across at each other, going into battle together. They speak through their radios.
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Two of the Zeros collide in mid-air, exploding, as the other Zeros scatter.
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Danny understands immediately, following Rafe's tactic as he breaks into a sharp turn and uses the hut, palm trees, and low hills to shake the Japs. They fly like crop dusters, skimming down a foot from the ground, then bobbing up, banking left and right. The Zeros have divided into two groups to chase them, their wings clipping tree tops as they try to follow the Americans.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

Eight Zeros are all over them.
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Their way seems blocked: they've got no runway behind them, the wreckage of four P-40's scattered ahead of them, and the Zeros screaming over the low hills to attack them. Now Rafe and Danny talk through the radio.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

The Zero's bullets eat his canopy and plane skin; the plane breaks apart in mid air, spilling in gouts of flame as it smashes down on the tarmac.
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Joe doesn't bother to strap in; he hits the throttle hard and heads down the runway... The Zeros are on him as he gets ten feet of air at 120 M.P.H.
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Seeing the pilots running for the P-40's, the Zeros aim for them; Rafe and Danny race for the most distant of the planes; Joe and Theo run for the closer planes, through the dusty bullet hits.
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Red's standing, firing; he yells at the Zeros --
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Danny pulls him down, as the Zeros roar overhead.
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The guys scatter. There are sandbags around the hut, and they run there, diving into it's shelter just before the first strafing pass, when a Zero strafes one of the P-40's and a dive bomber blasts another. Earl stands up in shock and fury.
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As the Zero pilots see the Buick moving, they go after it.
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Anthony tries to grab him and drag him back to earth but he misses; Billy gets a few steps before the fire from a strafing Zero catches up to him; his friends watch in horror as Billy gets shorter as he runs; the Zero's machine gun fire is sawing his legs off from the feet up.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

The mechanics and pilots, caught in the open, run from the strafing. The Zeros rake them down with machine gun fire.
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EXT. HICKAM FIELD - DAY The Japanese low-altitude bombers, with Zero escorts, zoom in over the field, blasting the clusters of American warplanes, whole squadrons taken out with one bomb.
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