HAMILTON — Last week, 12 men gathered to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The re-enactment of the attack that spurred the United States to enter World War II is an addition to the Greater Cincinnati Radio Control Club’s Annual Flying Circus, which kicks off Saturday, Aug. 8.

“Every year we do some new events,” said Mark Feist, the president of GCRCC. “Last year we did a new event where we simulated the Doolittle Raid, the April 1942 U.S. bombing of Japan, he said.

This year, the Pearl Harbor simulation is scheduled just before the Doolittle Raid.

“We have 12 people who’ve built airplanes just for this,” said Richard Kuns of Liberty Twp. He is a squadron leader for the Pearl Harbor show. “We educate people about things that happened in the past. We try to make it very patriotic and family friendly.”

Besides flying the Japanese planes, the GCRCC will have silhouettes of ships and pyrotechnics to simulate the bombs.

“We work for Rozzi Fireworks to do (the pyrotechnics) legally,” said Bob Zeisler, the club treasurer. “We have about a dozen members as licensed Rozzi technicians.”

Just as important, organizers said, is the soundtrack to the show.

“A nine-minute track took me three days,” said Randy Polley, the club’s musician. “All of that stuff you hear is all that labor of love.”

Polley, who has been making music for the air show for 22 years, said he knows how to create the music based on how the members fly their planes.

“We try to get a theme and sound effects,” he said. “I make the soundtrack to the choreography, and they do the choreography to the music.”

The re-enactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor is one of 30 acts that spectators will see at the 49th Annual Flying Circus Model air show, set to occur Saturday and Sunday at the Butler County Regional Airport. The show is free, parking is $5.