However, it seems quite blatant to those who have seen both movies how Pearl Harbor is a movie which tried to be a World War ...

In this A&E Special, four World War II veterans return to Pearl Harbor, where, in 1944, they narrowly survived a chain of mysterious explosions that wreaked havoc among the tightly berthed ships ...

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.