Goofs

The film shows one of the Japanese pilots deliberately crashing his plane into the Yorktown. The Yorktown was struck by several bombs and torpedoes but no planes crashed into it.

Yamamoto says that midget submarines are not to be used in the attack on Pearl Harbour when some were used.

The American P-38s used in the attack were not in bare aluminum, but rather Olive Drab with a gray underbelly. It was not until much later in the war when the US stopped painting the planes in camouflage; after air supremacy was achieved.

During the Pearl Harbor attack, some of the men implore Nagumo to make a second attack. In fact, there were two attacks and they were trying to get him to make a third.

Yamamoto says that 100,000 Japanese were lost in the Russo-Japanese war when it was rather less than that.

The film shows Yamamoto dying in a 'plane crash. In reality, he was killed by fighter bullets before the plane crashed.

The post-mortem of Yamamoto revealed that he was struck by two bullets. One was a wound to his left shoulder while the second fatal bullet entered his left jaw and exited above his right eye. Although the officer seated directly behind Yamamoto was shown to have been hit, the movie showed Yamamoto not to have been struck at all.

In fact, there is a bloody wound shown on the right front of his coat, similar to the location of the wound the man behind him suffered.