Very little of the movies and personal photographs ever left the Pearl Harbor carriers.

The few black and white photos we see and the short videos are all that is left of the attack on December 7, 1941.

  Most of the rest, went down with the carriers by the end of '42.

  The original 60+ of the Model 11 was a land based aircraft, that started the mystic of the Zero. They had no tail hooks and no folding wingtips.

  All of the fighter aircraft of the Pearl Harbor raid were Model 21's. I'm sure all broke in and at the peak operational when they took off.

  When they left that morning, they all were some of the most experienced naval aviators in the world.

  Some where floating around.

You see what I did there?

 Is the display that was put on by a group of IPMS modelers of all of the aircraft of, I believe the first wave. All in 1/72. It was the center piece to one of the National Conventions and commemorated one of the anniversaries.

50th I believe.

Complete as the history and available information would allow.

It's quite the work.