It was cool back then, though I know it did not make my top 10.

Yes it was. I seem to forget it on a regular basis, but now I have a sudden urge to watch it again. Maybe because it's been 31 years.

If you liked The Final Countdown check out this book series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Time

I only read the first one but it was awesome. Think of it as The Final Countdown but the ships from the future decide to stay and fight. :rock:

Long before either one of them I read this marvelous little book.
http://nebulogs.blogspot.com/2010/09...ream-1965.html

I think I might still have my original copy somewhere in my storage.

Classic.

Sounds like a great trilogy...on it now :sunny:

Just FYI the rest of that stuff on the list is accurate.

BTW 70 years ago today while the Japanese task force approaches the Hawaiian islands the Soviets launch a massive counterattack against the German army outside Moscow and Great Britain declares war against Finland, Hungary and Romania.

Not forgetting the European War would become World War Two. This Wednesday marks the Empire of Japan starting out in there five month Blitzkrieg in the pacific.

"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

Sounds like someone only heard the first sentence. :DL

As August noted, 70 years ago today, december 5, 1941, the Red Army launched its counter-offensive pushing the German Heer back from Moscow.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7277/poster175.jpg

Point taken :yep:

December 5th 1941

Japanese ambassador assures the U.S. government that her troop movements in French Indochina are only precautionary.

Destroyer escorts of the Japanese Singapore invasion fleet board and smash the radio of a Neutral Norwegian freighter.

USS Lexington (CV-2), TF 12 leaves Pearl Harbor to ferry USMC dive bombers to Midway island.27ea Japanese troop transports are preparing to depart from Taiwan in the morning, bound for the Philippine Islands.

Japanese submarines arrive at their patrol positions around Hawaii.

Japan loses.....eventually :sunny: