So they started putting all their defensive measures here and they took two years to do that, because we didn't get there until '43, right? So they had this really well defended, and there's a quote from Admiral Shipsaki, who was responsible for the defences, and he boasted that that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men and a hundred years - so there's some pride from our part, as we usually have in war. The Japanese took this island the day after Pearl Harbour, December 8th, and defended it. You know the war started in '41 - Pearl Harbour. So, we finally got to this point in the war, and this took us. For us we wanted it not only to cut off their supply routes, but so we can get our bombers and get them to Japan to bomb the hell out of them. So for the Japanese, they used it for supplies, they used it to move their troops and ships and planes further. This is the key moment for us, because this island, and even though it's only a strip of dirt it did have an airfield. It's really based on a strategy of us trying to get to Japan to bomb them, and Japan basically keeping us away and taking as much of the Pacific as possible so they can own the trading routes. Now, the interesting thing about the Pacific Theatre in its battling is in this case we're not reclaiming territory or saving natives. In Tarawa we found this a good ending point because this was always dubbed kind of the D-Day of the Pacific, because of both strategic and the moral victory that occurred on this island. In the Pacific Theatre, our character Tommy Collin, we take him through some of the more significant battles of the war, starting in Pearl Harbour, and then he goes to Makin, Guadalcanal, and end up in Tarawa. The Axis are the attackers in Airfield, Bridge, and Wake Island on all the rest the Allies are the attackers.In Pacific Assault clearly we go to the Pacific Theatre. If all the objectives are taken before the round is over, the attackers win. Some objectives need to be blown up by the engineer class, some objectives need to be occupied for a set amount of time by the attackers. As each objective is taken the defenders fall back to the next objective and the attackers advance.
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