The Battle for Wake Island

The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on December 23, 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Japanese.
It was fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land and naval forces of the Empire of Japan against those of the United States of America, with Marines playing a prominent role on both sides.
The island was held by the Japanese until September 4, 1945, when the remaining Japanese garrison surrendered to a detachment of United States Marines.

The Battle for Guadalcanal

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. Fiercely contested on the ground, at sea, and in the air, the campaign was the first major offensive launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. This battle is also famous for the USMC division Carlsons Raiders .

On August 7, 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, initiated landings on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida (Nggela Sule) in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese as bases to threaten supply routes between the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield (later named Henderson Field) that was under construction on Guadalcanal.
Surprised by the Allied offensive, the Japanese made several attempts between August and November 1942 to retake Henderson Field. Three major land battles, five large naval battles, and continual, almost daily, aerial battles, culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942, in which the last Japanese attempt to land enough troops to capture Henderson Field was defeated. In December 1942, the Japanese abandoned further efforts to retake Guadalcanal and evacuated their remaining forces by February 7, 1943.
The Guadalcanal campaign marked the first significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theater. For this reason, the Guadalcanal campaign is often referred to as a "turning point" in the war. The campaign marked the beginning of the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive, while Japan was thereafter forced to cease strategic offensive operations and instead concentrate on strategic defense.

The Battle for Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19–March 26, 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured of Iwo Jima (lit. Iwo Island) from Japan. The battle produced some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
The Japanese positions on the island were heavily fortified, with vast bunkers, hidden artillery, and 18 kilometres (11 miles) of underground tunnels. The battle was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands, and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously. Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner.The rest were killed or were missing and assumed dead. The U.S. invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima.
The battle was immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag on top of the 166 meter (546 ft) Mount Suribachi by five Marines and one Navy Corpsman. The photograph records the second flag-raising on the mountain, which took place on the fifth day of the 35-day battle. The picture became the iconic image of the battle and has been heavily reproduced.
The Initial Strike

The Aftermath

Iwo Jima and Mount Suribachi today

COD :Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Pack

Errrrrrrrr is it just me or is that fucking ridiculous and what the fuck is a metal book ? If this is like the load of crap they packaged with Halo Wars i wouldnt bother.

WET

BF 1943 : A Review

After messing about having to download a crap EA game just to register my EA account again i eventually got past the menu and into the game. Then i had to try and navigate the complex and unreadable menu systems then try and work out where to spawn I WAS IN !!!!

Guadalcanal came up first one of my faves from 1942 and spent the first 5 minutes stood staring in disbelief at the amazing visuals. DICE have surpassed themselves with the game engine again the new FROSTBITE 1.5 is stunning the water and sky looks superb. The weight and movement of the vehicles makes for a far better game than BFBC making the loading of TNT loaded jeeps on a run downhill into a base a true BANGBUS. The planes are gonna be the hardest of the learning curves as turning in them is a artform to be mastered using yaw and throttle. As expected a cue was forming outside the bombershack in anticipation of dropping heavy ordanance on a full squadron of n00bs. The Springfield /Karsk sniper rifle is a stone cold killer at short to medium range but at far distance is nigh on useless. The SMG is a bitch to hold down due to recoil but has great stopping power. Now we get to the best class "Rifleman" he is epuipped with M1 Carbine,Rifle grenades and 3 frag grenades that results in one hell of a package of destruction. There are some fantastic sniper spots including one found by GH Hemicharger that resulted in him getting 45 kills in one round alone :D

Gone are the patches and awards to be replaced by postcards and stamps that do much the same thing such as 5 kills with scoped rifles, so many kills in vehicles etc. . . . and we still have the ranking system from BFBC.

Bad points are everyone has a constant red dot above them making sniping a challenge, We have no veteran status as of yet. Things are hella glitchy resulting in you "rubberbanding" around the level at the mo and due to drastic server shortage you are unable to get a squad together or get a private match on the go if you even manage to get into a game :(

Lets hope it all gets ironed out eventually as everything EA touch seems to be horribly fucked up for its 1st 2 weeks of life.

Anyway DICE have done a superb job of basically taking a 10 year old game and breathing new life into it and then letting us have it for next to nothing, less than the price of lid of grass ;)

Respect goes out to Gordon Van Dykes at DICE for getting all the launch day problems fixed to some extent and for producing a game that is gonna be played for another 10 years

See you in the Coral Sea :D

I never thought it would happen . . . .

Konichiwa bitches !!!! As of 9 a.m GMT the battle for the pacific starts in full effect. Ghost Hordes will be showing up for duty in number tonight so lets make it a good one. In other news our resident Hashashin unit BOGONGRICH is back on the battlefield so you had best watch for satchel charged planes dropping from the skies.

EDIT 1

Seems the game was having some packet issues on the server that was causing terrible lag but a message from DICE head honcho Gordon Van Dykes and its been sorted. You should check out the BF 1943 forum its fucking chaos :D

EDIT 2 : Plane Controls

Seems a few folks are having probs with the views on the planes

UP on D-pad - Toggle views

LB - Look around in cockpit

Also try changing "Vertical Flight" controls to "Invert"