The Pandarens were added with World of Warcraft‘s Mists of Pandaria expansion, which launched in 2012, along with Pandaria, a new continent, and a new storyline where players are pitted against the Sha, a malevolent entity that was an ancient enemy of the Pandarens. Healers step in to heal the resulting wound, and the player heads back to the Temple of Five Dawns, where they must choose whether they will align with the Alliance or Horde. Players help both Alliance and Horde alike, defeating Vordraka and helps to dislodge The Skyseeker. This turns out to be The Skyseeker, a crashed gunship. Master Shang Xi imparts some final wisdom for the player, and the player learns of a large thorn embedded in Shen-zin Su’s side. This quest has players meeting spirits of fire, water, air and earth: from helping the water spirit out, to clearing the farmer’s fields of vermin, the player heads next to the Morning Breeze Village and defeats the Onyx Serpent. After completing a few basic trials, Master Shang Xi sends the player to meet the different elemental spirits, starting with the fire spirit at the Temple of Five Dawns. For my kind, the true question is: what is worth fighting for?” –Chen StormstoutĪs a Pandaren, players begin their journey in the Wandering Isle, a massive island on the back of Shen-zin Su, a giant turtle. Behind is the funnel and engine block of a WWII wreck.“Why do we fight? To protect home, and family to preserve balance, and bring harmony. Two Solomon Islanders in a traditional canoe wish using a large shell. Photo courtesy of NZ433261 Ian 'Jungle' Forrester. Pile of wrecked vehicles, Guadalcanal, 1945. Photo credit: Wrecked aircraft, Guadalcanal, 1945. The wreck of the Kinugawa Maru, beached and destroyed in 1942. Some wreck positions are not exactly known. Map of the location of World War II shipwrecks in Ironbottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. When the wreck was rediscovered more than 50 years later, the 75-year old Dougherty returned to Solomon Island, and donning scuba gear, he swam slowly down to the wreck and sat in the cockpit one last time. Dougherty managed to keep the plane airborne enough to reach the island of Rendova before it crashed on the lagoon and sank in 35 feet of water. As Dougherty swooped low over the island of Munda on a bombing run, he was hit by flak from one of the several guns on the shore. That day, with Robert Bernard as his radio gunner, Marine Corps pilot Jim Dougherty set out to sink Japanese ships that were supplying local troops. PBS writes about one particular dive bomber, the ‘American Douglas Dauntless’ that sank on July 23, 1943. Each of these ships have a remarkable story. Wikipedia has a partial list of ships wrecked at the Iron Bottom Sound. Some of the major wrecks of Iron Bottom Sound include the American cruiser Quincy, the Australian heavy cruiser Canberra, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kinugasa, the battleship Kirishima and the freighter Kasi Maru. Most of the wrecks are too deep to be dived at but others are at each reach, and some lie exposed on the beach. Now covered in coral and teeming with marine life, the wrecks attract large number of recreational and professional divers, as well as photographers. This area is now called the “Iron Bottom Sound” because of the immense amount of twisted metal that lies on the sea floor. At the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island, lies the wrecks of -according to one estimate- more than 200 ships, 690 air crafts and countless landing barges. During the Pacific War the Sound was known as "the Slot" by Allied soldiers due to its geographical shape and the amount of warship traffic that traversed it. Most of the fighting took place around a body of water called New Georgia Sound, that runs approximately through the middle of the Solomon Islands. Eventually, it wore the Japanese down and they withdrew completely in early 1943. The Japanese suffered great losses: more 36,000 killed, missing or captured. The Battle of Guadalcanal became bloody as tremendous warfare waged on land, on sea and in the air. The allies launched an offensive against the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy by swarming ashore the islands of Tulagi and Guadalcanal. At that time, the islands were under British rule, but were occupied by the Japanese and it became strategically important for the Allied forces to recapture them if the war in the Pacific was to be won. Between 19, this swath of ocean witnessed some of the fiercest fighting between the United States and the Empire of Japan during the Second World War. In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up the nation of Solomon Islands.
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