Day Of Infamy

For the transcript, see Day Of Infamy/Transcript.

Day of Infamy is the first mission in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.

Objectives[]

Primary[]

Get Topside
Extinguish Fire
Defend USS California

Secondary[]

Assist Engineer
Save Crewman

Weapons[]

Bonuses[]

Cheat - Unlimited Ammunition (Entrenching Tool required)[]

Right as you pass outside of the barber shop, you see a sailor getting injured and then passing out. On the right on the wall, there's a vent. Use the Entrenching Tool on the vent to unlock the cheat.

Film canister 1 - Don Jensen (Valor in History) (Machete required)[]

Next to the barber shop there's a post office room. In that room there's a black net blocking you access to the film canister. Use the Machete to cut through the net and access the film canister.

Film canister 2 - Storyboards[]

Just before the kitchen area, there's a storage room with the bonus objective 2 that needs you to extinguish fire to save a sailor. After you extinguish fire in that room, the second film canister can be found near the corner.

Multiplayer Skin - Navy Engineer (Skeleton key required)[]

In the barber shop, player can find the skin container in this level. You need to have the Skeleton key of the level to unlock the skin.

Characters[]

Cpl. Joseph Griffin (Playable)
GSgt. Jack "Gunny" Lauton
Zwick
Engineer Bishop K.
Engineer Novotny G.
Escalante

Vehicles[]

Historical Info[]

Moh-rs pearl-harbor — Cpl. Griffin emerges topside to witness the chaos of the Pearl Harbor attack.

The unexpected attack by more than 300 Japanese naval aircraft devastated the US Pacific Fleet; twenty-one ships were badly damaged or sunk, including eight battleships. The surprised sailors and Marines fought with the flames and wreckage of their own dying ships as well as with the enemy planes.

Trivia[]

Medal of honor rising sun image5 — Concept art for the level depicting more realistic colors for the sky.

In concept art for the game, the sky in both Day Of Infamy and Pearl Harbor is depicted with a more realistic and less exaggerated color scheme; closer resembling the level and box art for the game.
The name of the mission is a reference to the speech spoken about the Pearl Harbor attack by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the President of the United States at the time of the attack.
Shooting the torpedoes in the water instead of the airplanes makes the battle last a considerable amount of time longer.
Only Gunny is armed with a Shotgun, while other crew member arm with Browning Automatic Rifles. Despite the medium and long range of fighting, using shotgun is useless in this situation. This may be a possible reference to General George Patton, who was claimed to have been aggressive and crazy enough to attempt to shoot down German planes using an M1911 pistol.
Gunny using a shotgun may also be a reference to Tom Sizemore's character 'Earl' in the film Pearl Harbor. During the attack on his airfield, Earl pulls out a shotgun and shoots at the Japanese planes directly above. He uses it again in the airfields tower when Ben Affleck's character 'Rafe' brings a Japanese fighter right by them.
When exiting the bunk room, a man in a gas mask can be seen running by. In his quote, he state that he cannot breath in the gas mask. Historically, it is claimed that most sailors discarded and/or avoided wearing gas masks due to difficulties with properly equipping them and seeing with them. Thus, explaining why the sailor unknowingly ran into the electrical wires.
If the game is played in Co-op, about 95% of the NPCs are absent, (such as Zwick, the engineer in the gas mask who runs into electric wires, the Chef present in the kitchen, and most of the NPCs present on deck shooting at the planes).