Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Final Countdown ( What if a modern class carrier took on the Japanese Fleet?)

While watching the movie Final Countdown, at the ending I started thinking: "What would happen if the movie ended with the USS Nimitz saving Pearl Harbour in 1941 instead of returning to 1980?" Imagine this alternate ending for a moment: December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbour is being bombed by the Japanese, the Army and Naval personnel are losing the battle, and ships are being sunk or damaged. When the soldiers and sailors, while fighting the Japanese, look up and see a flight of F-14 Tomcats show up and defend Pearl Harbour while A-7 Crusaders, and A-6 Intruders along with the USS Nimitz attack and defeat the Japanese fleet. Can you imagine their reaction at seeing supersonic fighters, air to air missiles, and a nuclear powered carrier defend Pearl Harbour. First, amazed and dumbfounded at what they are seeing they assist the futuristic fighters and turn back the attacking Japanese. Then after the US victory in Pearl the USS Nimitz then gathers her fighters and goes after the Japanese fleet. Seeing this the Japanese fleet realizing their technological inferiority then inform the Italians and Germans that "The Americans have technologies we don't have. We need to surrender". In the attack the Nimitz could have wiped out the entire Japanese Navy and ended World War II in one day. Then the Nimitz arrives in 1940's Pearl Harbour and is hailed a hero by people who have never seen this technology. If a modern carrier, like the Nimitz in the movie Final Countdown, had attacked the Japanese fleet, what world would we live in?

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