<P> After America conquers Peleliu, the preparatory action for the Battle of Okinawa occurs in the Pacific Theater, during which Petty Officer Locke, in a PBY Catalina flying boat, takes part in a raid on three merchant ships . On their way back to base, another Catalina, codenamed Hammerhead, is destroyed by Japanese Zeroes, leaving Locke and his crew alone . Meanwhile, Task Force 58 of the US 5th Fleet is attacked, replicating Operation Ten - Go . Locke's PBY crew, the only one near enough to come to immediate aid, works to rescue as many American sailors as possible by fighting off Japanese PT boats and kamikaze planes . With the PBY almost completely destroyed and ammunition on Locke's . 50 cal running out, all hope seems lost, until a sudden attack from a squadron of Vought F4U - 1Cs drives off the remaining Zeroes . In the following mission, Miller's squad assaults a Japanese position on Okinawa, clearing out machine gun bunkers to allow American tanks to progress inland . With the battle almost won, the Americans storm Shuri Castle amidst mortar shelling and constant banzai charges . Once inside, they encounter Japanese soldiers surrendering . However, when Sgt Roebuck and Pvt Polonsky search them, they reveal concealed grenades under their clothes, at which point Miller is presented with the choice of saving either Roebuck or Polonsky . The remaining American troops arrive to assist the squad and engage the remaining Japanese soldiers in the castle's interior garden . After Miller calls in air strikes on two buildings, the Americans take Shuri Castle, crushing the last bastion of Japanese resistance on Okinawa . </P> <P> Meanwhile back in Germany, Reznov drags Dimitri out of the U-Bahn to regroup with Soviet infantry . The Red Army then advances towards the Reichstag . During the assault at the Reichstag's entrance, Chernov is severely burned by a flamethrower, and is implied to be killed . Reznov, Dimitri and the remaining Soviet soldiers enter the Reichstag, clearing it of its German defenders, and reaching the rooftop . After a final showdown on the top floor to reach the Nazi flag, Dimitri is shot by a dying German soldier, whom Reznov kills with a machete . Although wounded, Dimitri manages to plant the Soviet flag, signalling Soviet victory and ending the war in Europe . </P> <P> The first map in the Nazi Zombies game mode, that came with the Call of Duty: World at War game is titled, "Nacht Der Untoten" (German word translated to' night of the undead'). The map is fairly simple compared to the ones from the map packs that came later in the DLC expansions for Call of Duty . This zombie story takes place during World War II at an abandoned airfield in a bunker, with only two floor levels . The four characters at this map are unknown United States Marines, it is not until the first map packs of Nazi Zombies that all four characters were given identities and they were not all the same . </P> <P> World at War was announced on June 23, 2008, by Activision, who confirmed that the game was to be released in fall 2008, and that the series would revert to its customary World War II setting . The game took about two years to make, twice as long as Treyarch's previous entry to the series, Call of Duty 3 . The game is powered by a improved version of the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, with several improvements made to the physics model . Environments are more destructible and can be set on fire with the flamethrower, whose fire propagates . Dismemberment, as well as realistic skin and clothes burning of the characters were added . </P>

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