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== THE FINAL COUNTDOWN ==
=== 1980 ===
=== DVD ===
=== 2002 ===
=== THE STORY ===
The U.S.S. Nimitz, a nuclear aircraft carrier, encounters a very strange storm in 1981 and, when the ship clears the storm, the crew eventually realise that they have somehow been catapulted back to 1941. (As you do !!)
More importantly, they end up one day before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, and they are near Pearl Harbour. A fully-armed nuclear aircraft ... ...a lot of damage to the Japanese invasion force, possibly even destroy it. So, the question becomes, "Should they?" Should they tamper with history and re-write it? They are United States military servicemen, in a combat situation, and most the crew says, "Go for it!" But, what of the ramifications? That question becomes highlighted when a 1941 Japanese Zero blows up a 1941 private yacht, near the U.S.S. Nimitz, and the survivors are rescued by the ...
baherbc 06.11.2009
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