You fly a series of missions against Japanese Zeros in superior but less nimble planes. Microsoft's second version of Combat Fighter Simulator, which is set in the Pacific, mirrors this conflict. A senior officer told a gathering of 100 fighter bomber crews charged with attacking the Japanese Pacific fleet: 'If 15 of you get through and hit your target, we'll consider the mission a success.' What cost so many young Allied pilots their lives was the deadly manouevrability of the Japanese Zero fighters, manufactured from a cast-off American design. WW2 Pacific Theatre Microsoft, PC $109.95 Review: Peter Eley The scene: a briefing aboard an American aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway during the Second World War.
