At this time, Rear Admiral Julian Smith, commander of the 2nd Marine Division, the aircraft carrier fleet commanded by Halsey, Horland Smith Nimitz, commander of the 5th Amphibious Army, Spruance, commander of the 58th Task Force, and a group of US naval officers were intensively intensifying their attacks on the Gilbert Islands, Makin Atoll, and Tarawa Atoll.

Even in the Marshall Islands, air forces were constantly being dispatched to bomb them, especially in the amphibious landing operations around Butaritari Island, where the ratio of forces between the United States and Japan was overwhelmingly more than 20:1.

It's a pity that the 27th Infantry Division, one of the main combat units of the US army, is too useless, so even if the command ability of amphibious operations is relatively strong, the expert Holland Smith is helpless, and there is no way to give full play to his original command ability and kill the Japanese army in all directions.

On the contrary, the 27th Infantry Division under his command lost troops and commanded generals, and it took almost five days to occupy the island of Butaritari defended by the Japanese army.

Therefore, Spruance, the commander of the 58th Task Force, immediately dispatched the relatively strong and well-equipped 2nd Marine Division from New Zealand to attack the Tarawa Atoll, which was heavily defended by the Japanese army and focused on it.

At the same time, before the officers and men of the Second Marine Division carried out the landing operation, the US military also invested a large number of naval guns and indiscriminate bombardment of dive bomber groups to assist in supporting the operation.

Because the US air raids were all carefully designed, their artillery bombardment and air raids all received relatively good results of combat victories, leaving the Japanese troops to be killed in ashes and suffering many casualties.

Moreover, the 16-inch naval guns of the US military bombed all the eight-inch batteries set up by the US troops on the island with lightning speed.

and the wooden barracks of the Japanese army, which were also bombed into flames, and the Japanese arsenal in the vicinity was blown up into ruins.

Because the distance of the US naval artillery can reach 14,000 meters at most, and the nearest is at least 1,800 meters.

In the midst of the rumbling artillery, a menacing naval cannon shot down from the sky as if it were a grim reaper, and smashed down densely into the various artillery positions and defensive positions of the Japanese army.

It didn't take long for the entire Makin Island to turn into a sea of fire, and in the flash of the gun's fire, the huge black smoke columns mixed with the smoke and dust and gravel of the heat wave raged the entire Japanese position.

In the course of a day's intensive fighting, the US Navy and Air Force dropped more than 3,500 tons of artillery shells on the Japanese army, and even the "umbrella-dropped anti-personnel bombs" newly invented by the US Fifth Air Force were constantly falling from the sky and sweeping everything on the Japanese airfields, including the Japanese pilots, ground crews, and officers and men.

These so-called "parachute bombs" are modified B-25 and A-20 bombers, which hang high-explosive bombs outside the parachute, and then deliver bombs at low altitudes.

Moreover, the bomber group bombed by the US military every time was more than 200 planes, and it was as creepy as hell that the Majin Atoll and Tarawa Atoll, where the Japanese troops were stationed, had not been bombed by the US military.

It took a day for the fierce battles for Makin Atoll and Tarawa Atoll to reach the hands of the new Combined Fleet Commander Koga Mineichi in Tokyo Bay.

"Yaga!"

"How could it be that in just one day, Makin Atoll and Tarawa Atoll were bombed by the U.S. Air Force and Navy and turned into a sea of fire?"

"Are those defenders all rubbish? The face of our Great Japanese Empire has been lost by them! ”

As soon as he saw a large number of telegrams and reports asking for help and losing the war, Koga Feng suddenly turned green and roared loudly with a hideous face.

At that moment, his face was terrifying, as if he was about to tear everything and everything that stood in front of him to shreds.