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 Triangular Tarawa, a small island dozens. which Beidi Ou is the key fortified Japanese islands, but also the major targets of U.S. attacks. In this area only 1.18 square kilometers of coral islands, the Japanese unmanning 2500 Kawasaki Chai Hui-time commander is Rear Admiral. There is also an engineering battalion, and nearly a thousand North Korean workers, which makes the island the total force to about 4,500 people. Cai Qi at the Betty Europe built a 18-month fortifications, the shallow reefs in the outer set on a large number of concrete cones, gill nets and coconut Mucha iron, etc., and accompanied by a large number of artillery and infantry weapons, in order to check the enemy's landing boat. island There are a large number of semi-underground bunker, covered with a thick layer of coconut wood, steel and coral sand, enough to withstand large caliber artillery bombardment. on the island there are 11 coastal artillery positions, are in concrete steel building, which is equipped with 203

mm cannons. beach area with 25 Field Artillery, are located in the rugged firepower. inland air raid shelter with a complex system, vertical and horizontal trenches and covered ditch, and convenient transportation. Chai is the headquarters of Kawasaki Steel Plate and When a meter thick concrete walls of the giant fort. He told his men boasted:
November 19 night, in the submarine almost suffer. It was ordered to transport the captured near the island of Abbe Mama while a Marine Corps detachment surface, they were mistaken for enemy submarines, their forces were attacked.

bugler blowing reveille loud and clear, to usher in the Second Division Marines on November 20. their beds from the crowded bookshelf hurry up, many people no time to shave; soldiers quickly ate breakfast steak eggs, throw on the heavy armor, and check with bags of weapons and equipment - including magazines, grenades, water and emergency rations Lianghu. These Marines struggling to drill the narrow hatch, riding boots have a heavy transport ship for Kaka ring, according to the provisions they set out in the transport ships and landing craft assault boats on your marks.

half past three, take the punt like a tank landing ship in the first attack wave of soldiers began to climb up amphibious vehicles. In the transport ship, assault boats and landing craft is ready for launching. An hour later, this small island north of the fleet arrived Dabei tio five miles outside the entrance channel leading to the reef assembly sites; minesweepers cleared out the first opening into the a channel. then follow up on the two destroyers, amphibious vehicles are the first wave of attacks will be to provide close fire support. This force will be across the coral shoals on both sides of a seven hundred feet of a jetty to board the red beach .

in the dark, bosun's whistle sounded stridently, transport ship tossed around the sea waves, strong

attack boats in the water round and round and round. amphibious landing ship tank car from the open boat first studied under water. Japanese a blind search for a searchlight; four forty-one, a red flare over the island to draw an arc. and then surrounded by another dark, until half an hour east revealing the dawn of the first line. five ten, the power of a great ship destroyers shot back at their side. more than half an hour, this three-mile-long coral island of raging fires, explosions sound into one.

Only a planet, that is, Mars -

shining bright. Japanese battery has not subsided, the U.S. Navy's bombardment on as scheduled in five forty-five to stop, because the aircraft is expected to air the first time has come. But twenty minutes later, the aircraft is still on the aircraft carrier did not arrive. carefully planned the attack time is disrupted, as transport ships had to sail away from increasingly accurate enemy artillery range. aircraft carrier shortly after the aircraft finally began bombing at six,UGG boots, but seven minutes of their time is too offensive short, but the bomb did not penetrate the thick protective layer of defense. naval shelling a fresh start, a systematic bombardment of the two and a half hours. in the Fifth Fleet flagship Burns's chief of staff, Colonel Charles Moore impression this deep-rooted: six miles across the lagoon that come from the amphibious assault force, due to fierce winds delayed the build-up time,UGG shoes, and therefore later than the scheduled time. offensive launched in time (the first wave of attacks last login time) had to be postponed twice. Command ship to signal at the head of the stop, so the Japanese to take advantage of this critical time of fifteen minutes to adjust the direction of fire. They also face the forces transferred to the coastal lagoon. from the U.S. aircraft carrier .

lagoon, it carried a small fleet of landing craft into the water, they form a fourth wave of attacks. aboard the amphibious landing craft carrier is also carrying a tank. It is a rear accommodate boats floating in Hong Kong. carrying three Attack Force award ninety-three forward speed several groups of reinforcements after the landing craft could not dock. only the hippo-like there are a pair of amphibious vehicles in the corals lost track. soldiers Baird is the lead attack on fire is very intense, and more violent. They destroyed my both sides of the landing craft. a tractor was hit and caught fire, stopped, jumped out to the people inside like a burning torch. Bullets fell like the pouring down upon us, like Dahlia. Code shallow, arrived ashore. they are like hundreds of other people as the only escape toward the irresistible fire of Covert Office - the one along the high tide line to the log wall four feet high.

people Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Amy heard the little a bullet, has been poured into the shoals of red and dead fish dead in the chaos lies among the dead. in the neighboring Jetty Piles rushed up the cover. need to use heavy artillery and tanks to destroy the Japanese bunker, but carrying tanks and artillery tank landing ships can not pass over the road coral barrier. At this time, only eleven eventually climbed the shallow tank, However, mortar fire and was destroyed, because the sea off the engine fire. wounded struggling to climb out of the Force Commander of the tank turret, back in the body of the heap. As radio transceivers are unable to because of salt water coming down use, after ninety minutes after the terrible chaos, Colonel Bishop can use to find a machine. He shouted themselves hoarse cry for help, asked for Dahir No. can not dock. hapless Marines were left in chest deep water, facing a struggle to the shore half a mile to a severe test. they rely on wading and swimming through the Japanese bullets and mortar shells dashing Bk. are assigned to When we became a target. I was terrified, never been so scared. a few more behind the bulldozer on the shore. bulldozer huge metal blade became very good bulletproof shield, a bullet hit it rattled up to bounce up into the water.



500) this.width = 500; else if (this.width As of noon,cheap UGG boots, the number of casualties at Tarawa Island, over twenty percent. The first attack wave of Marines landed less than fifteen hundred people, they are squeeze a few yards below the log wall, a long beach. In the Beach machine gun bunker. Another company with some of Bangalore and flamethrowers to destroy bunkers, move a hundred feet to the mainland. naval gunfire extends to the sea side of the island - the U.S. military position in front of a few hundred yards. This makes diesel Kawasaki can not set his troops to launch a coordinated attack, the attacking forces to fight loop lagoon. However, the Bishop's troops in great danger; his noon telegram clearly shows this: Julian Smith, Rear Admiral, General and Hill still can not figure out the progress of the fighting. They sent back through the Bishop and on the signal of despair over a landing craft stuck in the atolls of the report aware of the lake, landing face a serious difficult. half past one p.m., they asked Rear Admiral Turner sent on approval to reserve. with the telegram they sent there with an ominous report: concluded two years ago, cable guard with the Marines of Wake Island came in the last day the last signal sent exactly the same, so that the Pacific Fleet Command, Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz was puzzled and worried. not far away from the Makin Island in the Marine Corps Reserve sent. They originally estimated, It happened in South

surface eighty-five miles of Tarawa.

Turner increasingly disturbed, as the landing of Makin Island in itself significantly behind schedule. Cloth Ta Lita in the island's resistance is weak, and adhere to the extension of Rear Admiral Turner bombardment time, because he saw the Japanese artillery continued firing. transport ship hit the boat in a strong attack at half past eight before the arrival from the coast do not to a mile. should have easily won the battle, but also because the kind of interference with the landing abnormally low and frustrated. The first batch of . At this time, the landing craft reached the follow-up wave of attacks, but can not dock. Ralph Smith, the attacking forces had to rely on general low and affected by the lack of combat effectiveness. Turner Later in the report of the poor performance of the Army division, said: officers and noncommissioned officers of experience and lack of courage. Spruance telegram said: with heavy artillery, are still shallow in the forward rush. carrier aircraft of this narrow island for a fierce fire and bombings, has been hit the evening. At this time, just red sun goes down, the sunset illuminates the body over and over, tanks and Nearly fifteen hundred, almost five thousand have been ashore about a third of Marines.

uncertain outcome of Turner received the grim battle of Tarawa telegram that night, he The command ship is near Makin Island

. A few minutes later, he was more worried when news of the serious, was forced to withdraw from the fighting, has been towed away.

evening, Tony DIAO fire weakened the Japanese island, a landing craft to the U.S. Army near the jetty to the end of the first batch of guns and on the beach waiting to evacuate the wounded and medical supplies urgently needed plasma discharge to shore. medical team members work hard all night to rescue the wounded, the Marines are busy in their occupation at a thousand yards behind the beach to dig foxholes. Cai Qi of the intends to use the cover of darkness into the enemy's rear area, surrounded by the U.S. military position, but the communication equipment were damaged, and can not launch a coordinated counterattack. he had sent death squads to the sudden embankment and was destroyed in the landing craft on the reefs occupy sniper positions.

dawn the next day, when the delivery of reserve combat troops began landing craft when the tide is still too low to the landing craft floating over reef. slide put down, the soldiers unloaded the coral shallows. hidden in the debris pile of the enemy landing craft Army sniper's bullet to strengthen the shore bunker fire. In five hours the second day of landing, the Marine Corps casualties than the first morning of the ratio. on the shore, Bishop is still not enough artillery colonel and tanks to break the enemy lines. His drinking water, food rations, medical supplies have been depleted, while the Japanese continued firing from the base, against the rain of bombs and naval artillery shells as the bombardment.

slow. hot The vehicle remains in the bank increasing the body in the hot sun gives off a disgusting smell.

landing of U.S. forces cause great damage to the vagaries of the tide, and finally rose around noon

out. five destroyers close to the coast, the landing craft just the first climb in the outer beach of coral reefs, accurate shooting to eliminate the enemy's bunkers and artillery positions. Now troops can attack the beach all afternoon. in more tanks and artillery support, the Bishop's forces in the island across the narrow waist, inserted in the past, the Japanese defense line into two. Bishop Colonel telegram sent in the evening, said optimistically: an unknown number. combat effectiveness: We win!

command a large bunker. The next morning he sent a final telegram: by tanks, explosives and flamethrowers to destroy one by one. Marines blocked the bulldozers with sand bunkers of his two-story entrance, and then coming down from the top of the vent gas, ignited by a grenade; wood with Kawasaki His three hundred soldiers die. Some Japanese stronghold has been insisting that the next afternoon, Rear Admiral Hill, the seventy-five hours forty-five minutes, the , bunker burned ruins. Mangranruoshi priest command of excavators digging pits Otsuka terrible job. only one Japanese officer, sixteen soldiers and one hundred twenty-nine North Korean workers are captured alive. A few days later,UGG boots clearance, there are thirsty enemy soldiers mad crazy out from the rubble in the drilling carried out suicide attacks. Bei Diao occupation of the island into the United States a party to more than eight thousand Marines; spent three days instead of the original plan of the day; the cost of one thousand three hundred people were killed.