![]() WWII Online combines many different genres of video games onto one online persistent battlefield. WWII Online: Battlegrounds Europe is unlike any other FPS in that it is a simulation of WWII rather than a small experience of WWII. Players engage in heavily action packed multiplayer matches with an emphasis mostly on action. As for online FPSs it is pretty much the same. In most first person shooters the player blasts their way through heavily scripted events with a focus on the action and less on realism. ![]() Hank, addressed the passengers and crew before leading a wreath ceremony.WWII Online: Battlegrounds Europe is an MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) that is a mix of a first person shooter, Vehicle combat simulation, and a flight simulator. In April 2006, cruise ship Clipper Odyssey hove to over the position of Laffey’s remains. Both forward 5-inch guns are trained out to port, and her midships superstructure is holed by a 14-inch projectile from a Japanese battleship. As reported in the video and book The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal, Laffey is upright and largely intact from the bow to amidships, but her after third has disappeared. Robert Ballard discovered Laffey’s remains at a depth of nearly a half-mile off Guadalcanal. In 1992, a National Geographic expedition led by Dr. ![]() Laffey, Sterett and O’Bannon all received the Presidential Unit Citation for this action, as did Rear Admiral Scott’s flagship Atlanta and Admiral Callaghan’s flagship San Francisco.) Tobin’s flagship on this occasion, led the four rear destroyers-DesRon 12’s Barton and Monssen, both of which were also lost in this action, and the 2,100-ton Fletcher, which emerged undamaged. Her after magazines detonated shortly thereafter and she sank with a loss of 59 officers and men killed and 116 wounded. Callahan’s 13-ship Task Group 67.4, she engaged Japanese battleships Hiei and Kirishima before sustaining a torpedo hit in the stern from destroyer Teruzuki. Second in line behind 1,500-tonner Cushing and ahead of Sterett and O’Bannon in the van of Rear Admiral Daniel J. ![]() To the glorious dead, hail heroes-may you all rest with God.Ī month later, in the early hours of 13 November, she participated in the opening of the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. No honor for you could be too great, my pride in you is beyond expression. You have won the undying gratitude of your country and have written our names in golden letters on the pages of history. To the superb officers and men on the sea, on land, in the air, and under the seas who in the past five days have performed such magnificent feats for our country. IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL Tobin, ComDesRon 12), Aaron Ward and Buchanan in the screen of Wasp (CV 7) after the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Laffey, with Duncan, Lansdowne and cruisers Helena and Salt Lake City, collectively rescued 1,946 survivors (see photo above) on 15 September, when Wasp was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-19. To them the men of Cactus lift their battered helmets in deepest admiration.įollowing training operations off the West Coast, she was sent to the South Pacific to take part in the Guadalcanal operation, arriving in late August. All those efforts are appreciated but our greatest homage goes to Callaghan, Scott and their men who with magnificent courage against seemingly hopeless odds drove back the first hostile attack and paved the way for the success to follow. Our own aircraft has been grand in its relentless hammering of the foe. We thank Lee for his sturdy effort last night. We thank Admiral Kinkaid for his intervention yesterday. We believe the enemy has undoubtedly suffered a crushing defeat.
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