Scott Rose wrote:
Thats funny, because when I was rewatching the scene I was wondering about kill markings for the Tomcats.
there's a discussion about that on that YouTube link. Some suggest, and I agree, that there'd be no kill markings allowed as the DoD would say, "Nope, never happened," and wouldn't allow the kills in any official way. That said, how the heck would they explain this to the crew of the chopper that the Senator blew up by accident (never mind that the Navy would have found the remains of that afterward and started wondering what the heck it was from)? Or the people the Zero pilot shot in the carrier?
I've always loved to think, "What happened next?" after the credits rolled and this movie always made me wonder (especially once I served in the military and realized all the nuts and bolts issues behind what happened in the film).
I mean really, the
entire crew knew what had happened, so it's not like the navy was going silence thousand of sailors for life. They couldn't tell them it was just a DoD exercise, because, well, the sailors knew what was going on (remember the recon pilots who flew over Ford Island, oddly taking photos of
the attack as it was happening?)
Then there's the issue over what had happened in the first place. they missed all kinds of opportunities to link similar 'storms' with disappearances of other ships in the past. But anyway, how would the DoD react to the knowledge that storms like that existed at all? Imagine today's risk-averse military, they'd never let ships leave their ports! There'd be no way to know it couldn't happen again...
...which leads to the possibility of a sequel:
Imagine a different version of this where, say, the USS Gerald Ford attacks the Japanese task force and succeeds, with F-35s, and then comes back through the storm again to find a totally different world where WW2 didn't happen at all like we now know it. With the entire task force at the bottom of the Pacific, the US battleships and carriers launch into the Pacific full-throttle and the entire pacific war is over by the summer of 1942? They then turn toward Europe without a Pacific war to fight, with the full Allied effort, and the entire war is over by 1943?
Makes me wish I worked in Hollywood so I could pitch this idea!
There is a horrible book series starting with "The Last Carrier" about a 7th Japanese carrier that gets "stuck" in an iceberg for 40 years, breaks free in the early 80s and commences an attack on Pearl Harbor. With that said, how much damage could the Japanese attack fleet do to a modern Pearl Harbor if they came through the other way. Shear numbers would allow at least some damage to be done.
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