The top mistakes in Tora! Tora! Tora! http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1314 en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:55:10 +0000 50574 In one scene you see a damaged B-17 about to land when he gets a call from the tower saying that he had a Zero on his tail and telling him to go around. This would never happen. A heavy B-17 (much less a damaged one) would never be able to outrun a Zero, especially after trying to land. The pilot's best option would have been to get it on the ground as soon as possible and to run like hell. 9362 In the opening scene of Washington DC the building on the left is the Museum of American History which wasn't built until around 1959. 20068 When the Japanese pilots are taking off the carrier deck, there is an overhead view of the launch. The carrier in the scene has a angled deck. The angle deck carriers didn't come along until after the war was over. 118669 When the Japanese submarine is trying to sneak into Pearl Harbor, the ship identified as the USS Ward is a much newer type of destroyer, not the World War I vintage with 4 smoke stacks that the Ward actually was. 131856 When the Japanese planes first arrive, they fly through the mountainous area near Schofield Barracks. The white cross that is seen in the movie is a memorial to identify the location of first appearance of the planes on Oahu. It wasn't there on December 7, 1941.