New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

With the support of dive bombers, the 3th Marine Division was able to press on.At this time, the next batch of landing troops also came to the beach. This batch of landing troops included a group of authentic tanks. Although they were still some m[-] light tanks, in the Pacific Ocean, these tanks were enough to deal with most of the tanks. target.With the support of these tanks, the US military approached their first important target in the afternoon: Airfield [-].But at this time, it was close to two o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be difficult to seize the airport before dark.And considering that the Japanese have the habit of conducting large-scale night attacks, the U.S. military will stop its offensive operations by three o'clock in the afternoon at the latest, and even shrink its position slightly to arrange night defenses.

This is the first night after going ashore, and it is a crucial night. According to the past situation, the Japanese will 02% launch a large-scale night attack on this night in order to drive the US troops into the sea.So from 30:[-] in the afternoon, the Americans stopped their offensive and began to build various fortifications.Dig trenches, build sandbags, set up machine guns and mortars, deploy tanks to the most critical positions, install barbed wire, and lay mines.The messy preparations continued until dark.During the period, the Japanese artillery still came out from time to time to shoot a rapid fire, and then automatically stopped firing before the American artillery fire reacted, and disappeared into the tunnel.

Busy and busy until dusk, everything was ready, and the soldiers of the Marine Corps believed that if the Japanese came to attack at night, they would definitely not have good fruit to eat.After nightfall, the soldiers took turns sleeping.The soldiers on duty opened their eyes wide, watching for any disturbance in the front of the position.The navy's warships continuously fired flares to the front of the position, and the whole position was as bright as day.But the whole night, the expected "Ban Zai Charge" never appeared.

Early the next morning, the U.S. military resumed its offensive and successfully captured the airport that morning.But it will be some time before the airport is ready for use.However, both the Marine Corps and the Navy know the importance of the airport, so all construction machinery is tilted towards the airport.But even so, it took a whole day for Airport No. [-] to resume its ability to take off and land aircraft.

As soon as the airport was restored, Ron's attack aircraft unit was immediately thrown in.The Navy's bombers have limited ammunition capacity and are difficult to carry powerful fuel-air bombs, but the Army's attack aircraft is different. The ultimate bomb capacity of the p-38 fighter jet is almost equivalent to that of the b-17 bomber, while the modified pa-38 The attack aircraft also maintained such a bomb load.

As the PA-38 attack aircraft landed at Airport No. [-], the Japanese began to enjoy the baptism of fuel-air bombs.Now, the combat mode has changed again. After soldiers discover the enemy's fortifications, their first reaction is to call attack aircraft to drop fuel-air bombs.

The Japanese were not unprepared for the American fuel-air bomb offensive, but what they did not expect was that the U.S. military would use this weapon in this way.

"The enemy is still resisting? Okay, let's bomb again soon!"

"What? Still need it? Okay, another round!"

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"General, our supplies are not enough." On the early morning of the fourth day, in a deep and dark tunnel, a Japanese officer was reporting to Tadamichi Kuribayashi.

After hearing the news, Kuribayashi Tadao didn't say anything.After learning that the U.S. military has such a big killer, Tadamichi Kuribayashi was not unprepared. He did a lot of things. He sealed the tunnels and prepared oxygen cylinders and oxidizers for the soldiers to provide oxygen. However, the U.S. military’s approach is really It's so rascal.They just kept throwing fuel-air bombs on the fortifications, and at the same time let the soldiers wearing oxygen masks perform feints.Yes, these cowardly Yankees are feinting!As long as the imperial army took the precious oxygen and began to resist, they immediately crawled forward, lying there and firing guns, consuming the precious oxygen of the imperial army.After 10 minutes, the oxygen content in the air began to recover, and the Americans dropped another bomb without saying a word!Where did they get so many bombs?Don't apple trees in the United States bear apples, but bombs?

Because the news was received late, and because Japan's transportation was blocked, the island's oxygen reserves were insufficient, and it simply couldn't withstand such consumption for a day, and the oxygen reserves were already exhausted.Now the Japanese army can only allow the most experienced soldiers to use oxygen equipment first, and the rest of the soldiers can only hide in the tightly closed tunnel first, wait until the explosion is over, then hold their breath and rush to the shooting port to fire a few shots, and then Then run back to the airtight tunnel with plenty of oxygen before you suffocate.In this way, the firepower density of the Japanese army was greatly reduced, which gave the US military more opportunities to approach the bunkers, and then use bazookas or blasting tubes to blow up the Japanese bunkers.

Sometimes, the cunning Yankee will play a fake retreat trick. Sometimes, when he is fighting hard, he suddenly sees the Americans start to retreat. At the same time, the roar of the US military aircraft engine is heard in the ear At this time, all the Japanese would reflexively run towards the airtight tunnel, then dive into it, and then close the gate tightly.As a result, the Americans did not really retreat at this time. On the contrary, they rushed up while the Japanese were hiding from the air strikes, and put the flamethrower on the firing port of the bunker.

As a result, on this day alone, the Japanese army was defeated in such a confrontation of material consumption. The US military captured the No. [-] airport on this day and successfully captured the ground position of Mount Suribachi.In the original history, in order to achieve these goals, the U.S. military paid the price of thousands of deaths in battle. Because of the heavy casualties, the U.S. military once considered using chemical weapons against the Japanese troops on Iwo Jima. This plan was finally adopted by President Roosevelt and Ni General Miz vetoed it for political reasons.However, after the war, someone asked Nimitz about this issue. Nimitz's answer was: If I were to make another decision now, I think I would probably support the use of chemical weapons on Iwo Jima.

However, in this space, no Americans will discuss this issue anymore, because fuel-air bombs have played a role comparable to chemical weapons.Since the Army Aviation planes began to take off and land on the island, the progress of the Marine Corps has been smooth at once, while the Japanese have been in trouble.

"General, if we just rush out and start a mess with the Americans, they won't be able to throw those damn bombs around." A staff officer said to Kuribayashi Tadao.

"Do you all think so?" Kuribayashi Tadao looked around and saw several combat staff officers standing by, so he asked.

"Yes, general, the current state is completely different from the concept." A staff officer replied, "Staying in the pit and defending to the death will not bring us a better exchange ratio."

Indeed, the battle turned into a war of attrition, but unlike what Kuribayashi Tadao thought, it did not become a war of attrition for life, but a war of attrition for the supplies of both sides.And such a war of attrition is obviously extremely detrimental to Japan.

"So, can we get a better exchange ratio if we go out to charge onboard?" Kuribayashi Tadamichi asked.

"How do you know if you don't try?" A young staff officer said without thinking.

"Haven't you tried it before?" Kuribayashi Tadmichi's voice became dark and cold, and he stared at "Yamada-kun, the exchange ratio between us and the US military is not satisfactory, but you really don't know how to make the exchange ratio better?"

Yamada was a little flustered under Kuribayashi Tadamichi's gaze, he avoided Kuribayashi Tadamichi's gaze, and said in a low voice: "General, it's really too... The enemy has raised their flags on Mt. Suribachi... Anyway, do we have to do something else?"

Yes, in any case, do do something about it.The Americans have already brought armored bulldozers and large quantities of concrete onto the island, and now, with the US military basically in control of the ground, the US military will use bulldozers to lift the ash and concrete and make everything they see look like It was something that blocked the entrance of the hole.Even if it is a mouse hole, the U.S. military will suspect that it is the vent of the Japanese tunnel, and then directly block it with concrete.If this situation continues, sooner or later the Japanese on the island will be buried alive in the tunnels they dug themselves.

"We should go out in small groups for guerrilla warfare," said a staff officer.

"It's delusional. Iwo Jima is a bit bigger. There's no room for guerrilla warfare. Do you think it's in Luzon?" Another staff officer retorted.

"At night, using rifles and mortars for long-distance shooting, coupled with the infiltration of small groups, may have some effect. I am willing to take a unit to try." The staff officer named Yamada spoke again.

"Yamada-kun, your idea this time is a bit interesting. Let's try it like this."

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That night, the Japanese resumed their old habit of night raids. However, most of these night raids were just long-range shooting and shelling. Bring too much trouble to the US military.When the disparity in material strength between the two sides is too large, no military strategy will actually have much effect.The Japanese army on Iwo Jima is still resisting, but their resistance has become weaker and weaker.This can be seen from the number of shells falling from the airport.Two days ago, when the attack aircraft force took off and landed on the Iwo Jima 38 airfield, it was very dangerous, and the Japanese would use their cannons to open fire on the airfield, although the firepower was not high (because most of the artillery had been destroyed by battleships or The dive bomber was destroyed), but it was not the shells that fell, which still reminds people of fear. One pa-[-] was hit by Japanese artillery fire when it landed, and even the plane and pilot were lost.But after two days, basically the least shells could fall on the airport.Ron estimated that in another week, perhaps Iwo Jima Airport would be able to perform escort missions.