Childhood friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are daring young pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Rafe has fallen in love with Evelyn Stewart, a beautiful U.S. Navy nurse. But when the sounds of war begin to rumble on the horizon, Rafe decides he must leave to join Europe's fight. Swearing to Evelyn and Danny that he will return, Rafe heads off for England. Meanwhile, Evelyn and Danny are transferred to Hawaii's peaceful paradise -- Pearl Harbor -- unaware of the approach of devastating forces that soon will forever change their lives -- and the fate of an entire world.
