High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Battlehawks 1942 was a World War II naval air combat flight simulation video game released in 1988 by LucasFilm Games. It was set in the Pacific air war theatre, and was the first of Lucasfilm Games` trilogy of WWII flight simulations. It was followed by "Their Finest Hour" (1989) and "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe" (1991).