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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Destination Tokyo is a 1943 wartime propaganda film directed by Delmer Daves—it was his directorial debut.It involves the fictional mission of of a fictional submarine, the USS Copperfin, in the Pacific theater of World War II. The Copperfin, led by Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant), leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve 1941 on a secret mission. After 24 hours at sea Cassidy unseals his orders and gets a surprise: his ship is to go all the way to Tokyo Bay. The extremely hazardous mission requires that Cassidy somehow enter Tokyo harbor without being observed, and then land a shore party which will perform reconnaissance for an upcoming carrier-based bombing raid on Japan. (Namely, the Doolittle Raid, dramatized in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.)Cassidy swings by the Aleutians to pick up one Lt. Raymond, who speaks Japanese and is to lead the shore mission. Their hazardous mission is made even more eventful when a young seaman falls ill and requires an emergency appendectomy. The Copperfin does eventually manage to sneak into the bay, but getting out will be no easier than getting in.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })John Garfield plays "Wolf", a sailor who tells tall tales about all the women he's supposedly bedded.
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 Artistic License – History: There's the whole business about a submarine being in Tokyo Bay before the Doolittle Raid, and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier when the first Japanese carrier to be sunk in the war didn't happen until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May. Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit a hull.
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 Band of Brothers: The bond between the sailors is shown by how they give each other Christmas presents after leaving port on Chrismtas Eve. Later Cassidy remarks on how the officers and men on a submarine are closer than they are on surface ships.
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