Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are two daring young pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps who have grown up like brothers and first learned to fly in crop-dusting planes. Rafe has fallen in love with Evelyn Stewart, a beautiful and courageous nurse serving in the U.S. Navy. But they are soon separated by war when Rafe volunteers for the Eagle Squadron, a group of Americans fighting alongside the English during the Battle of Britain. With the solemn promise that he will return, Rafe heads off for the deadly skies above the English Channel, while both Evelyn and Danny are transferred to the paradise of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. Their Eden is shattered however, when word reaches them in the Pacific that Rafe has been killed in combat. Grief-stricken, they hold fast to each other for support, and ultimately fall in love. 

Then Rafe returns. His arrival breaks all three of their hearts; but before they have a chance to find resolution, the attack upon Pearl Harbor by the combined air and naval forces of Imperial Japan fractures their private worlds as it alters history. America's response to the staggering emotional defeat at Pearl Harbor is to create one the most daring and unexpected military events in history: the bombing of Tokyo through a suicide mission led by aviation legend Jimmy Doolittle. When Colonel Doolittle picks Rafe and Danny to be his key leaders on the heroic raid, their lives and their love for Evelyn are once more at the center of this tale of passion and spectacular personal courage.

The film stars BEN AFFLECK, KATE BECKINSALE, CUBA GOODING JR., JOSH HARTNET and TOM SIZEMORE. - ET ON-LINE