Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1

World War II with a Startling Twist.

A near-future military experiment has thrust a US-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the naval task force speeding towards Midway Atoll and what was to be a spectacular Allied triumph in the war in the Pacific.

In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the ripples have only just begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realisation that the time-travellers themselves by their very presence have rendered history null and void.

Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first-century task force may also have made the trip and might now be aiding the enemy forces.