<P> Upon their arrival in California , Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the Silver Star , and volunteer for a secret mission under Doolittle . During the next three months , Rafe , Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B - 25 Mitchell bombers . In April , the raiders are sent towards Japan on board USS Hornet . Their mission : bomb Tokyo , after doing so they will land in allied China . The mission is successful , except at the end Rafe and Danny 's plane crashes . They are held at gunpoint by Japanese soldiers . A gunfight ensues , and Danny is mortally wounded shielding Rafe . Rafe tearfully reveals to Danny that Evelyn is pregnant with his child ; with Danny 's dying breaths he tells Rafe that it is his child now . After the war , Rafe and Evelyn , now married , visit Danny 's grave with Danny and Evelyn 's son , also named Danny . Rafe then asks his stepson if he would like to go flying , and they fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that his father once had . </P>
<P> Upon their arrival in California , Danny and Rafe are both promoted to Captain and awarded the Silver Star , and volunteer for a secret mission under Doolittle . During the next three months , Rafe , Danny and other pilots train with specially modified B - 25 Mitchell bombers . In April , the raiders are sent towards Japan on board USS Hornet . Their mission : bomb Tokyo , after doing so they will land in allied China . The mission is successful , except at the end Rafe and Danny 's plane crashes . They are held at gunpoint by Japanese soldiers . A gunfight ensues , and Danny is mortally wounded shielding Rafe . Rafe tearfully reveals to Danny that Evelyn is pregnant with his child ; with Danny 's dying breaths he tells Rafe that it is his child now . After the war , Rafe and Evelyn , now married , visit Danny 's grave with Danny and Evelyn 's son , also named Danny . Rafe then asks his stepson if he would like to go flying , and they fly off into the sunset in the old biplane that his father once had . </P>
who dies at the end of pearl harbor
who dies at the end of pearl harbor
Danny
Danny