CREDITS PEARL HARBOR , 2001 dir: Michael Bay Ben Affleck Josh Hartnett Kate Beckinsale Jennifer Garner Cuba Gooding Jr Jon Voight Ewen Bremner Alec Baldwin Tom Sizemore Dan Aykroyd William Fichtner

Rafe’s UK base, ‘RAF Oakley’, though, really is England. It’s Badminton House, Tetbury, near the historic city of Bath in Gloucestershire, which was also one of the locations used to represent 'Darlington Hall' in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day. Unfortunately, the house is not currently open to the public..

.In Hawaii, the hospital exterior is at Palm Circle, Fort Shafter, part of the Pearl Harbor complex in Honolulu, but the interior is the familiar Linda Vista Hospital, 610 South St Louis, east LA.

Another strange juxtaposition is the circular pool, where the Japanese high command plans the attack on Battleship Row, which is part of the US army post built to guard LA Harbor. It’s the gun emplacement, flooded with water for the movie, of the old Battery Osgood-Farley, part of Fort Macarthur in Angel’s Gate Park, San Pedro. Close by, the ‘Hawaiian’ lighthouse where Rafe suddenly reappears, fulfilling his promise to return, is the Point Vicente Lighthouse, Point Vicente Drive South, on the most southwest point of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The ‘Honolulu’ movie house, where Danny and Evelyn go to see Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, is the Warner Grand Theater, 478 West Sixth Street in San Pedro, south LA. And, yes indeed, it is as gloriously deco as it is in the movie. The cinema can also be seen in Seabiscuit, What's Love Got To Do With It? and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. Next door but one, an empty store at 474 West Sixth Street was transformed into the ‘Black Cat Diner’, where they reminisce about the presumed-dead Rafe after watching the movie.

‘Kai Kai Korner: crossroads of the Pacific’, where Red Winkle (Ewen Bremner) proposes to Betty, was created on Sixth Street a few yards east.

The training scenes with Doolittle filmed in the enormous Blimp Hangars at Tustin, California, but the raid on ‘Japan’ does gets a little further afield. The industrial section of ‘Tokyo’ is the 4,000-acre US Steel Gary Works at Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan (standing in for the Pacific) The bombers were digitally added to shots taken from the ground, while the reverse aerial shots were taken from a ‘copter, with B-25s added later.

The peaceful Japanese temple seen as the planes retreat, is the Byodo-in Temple, 47-200 Kahekili Highway in the Valley of the Temples, outside Honolulu. It’s a replica of the original Byodo-in in Uji, Japan.

The ‘White House’ rose garden, where President Roosevelt (Jon Voight) is informed that the returning mission has no homing beacons, is the Rose Garden of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 900 Exposition Boulevard.

Pearl Harbor: ‘Haleiwi Motor Court’: Luna Park Auto Court, Lincoln Heights, LA

Luna Park Auto Court, 2101 Parkside Avenue, Lincoln Heights, east LA, became the ‘Haleiwi Motor Court’, where Evelyn tells Rafe she’s pregnant.

Pearl Harbor: ‘Haleiwi Motor Court’: Luna Park Auto Court, Lincoln Heights, LA

There was filming also at Camarillo State Hospital, 1878 South Lewis Road, Camarillo in the Santa Monica Mountains, which closed in July 1997 and is now California State University: Channel Islands; and at: Westward Beach, Point Dume (the location of the ending of the original Planet of the Apes).

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