Desperate Battles Campaign
Welcome to the South Pacific. You will find yourself flying 19 missions here in a fighter, dive bomber or torpedo plane in some of the toughest battles of the Pacific war. This is meant to be an historical campaign, based on the carrier battles of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (22-25 August 1942) and the Battle of Santa Cruz (25-27 October 1942. The campaign is named “Desperate Battles” because at this stage of the war the US Navy was fighting uphill. That is, they had fewer resources than the Japanese, in many ways inferior aircraft and less experienced pilots. In both engagements, the Japanese are the attackers and the USN has to fight a defensive struggle.
