"Boom! Thundered......! ”

Betty's American artillery positions, which were providing front-line support to the American infantry, were ferociously shelling the Japanese frontline positions not far in front of them.

The first battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, which had just landed on Red 1 Beach, was also driving LVT-1 amphibious personnel carriers, using the 7.62 mm caliber vehicle machine guns on their personnel carriers, desperately cooperating with the US artillery group to splash metal storms.

In the midst of the deafening sound of artillery and machine guns, one Japanese soldier after another was killed and wounded, or shot into a honeycomb corpse; Lying on their frontline positions, cut off from breath, blood staining the earth.

"Fire! Don't stop, let these Japanese see how powerful our United States of America is, and see if they dare to attack our Pearl Harbor! ”

"Kill these bastards and blow them all to slag!"

While watching his side become more and more rapid and ferocious artillery fire covering the Japanese positions, Major Edward Bradter, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, was standing on the LVT-1 amphibious personnel carrier and roared angrily.

Looking at the appearance, the sea of people thought that the Japanese army had killed his whole family, and the fierce gods were vicious, and the living should not be approached.

As for Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Kelly, the commander of the first battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, who led the troops to successfully land, he was in a low-key and silent command of the landing operation, and he also needed to let the air liaison officers and sea liaison officers who followed him, as well as the communication squad with little combat effectiveness, take 5 landing craft for follow-up landing, and there are tank landing craft behind them, carrying M3A1 light tanks to follow.

As for the landing craft as the vanguard, they were all elite infantry with loaded guns, and they also put up a combat series to guard against counterattacks by Japanese artillery and shore defense artillery.

At this time, the Northern Assault Landing Force under the command of Rear Admiral Turner was already commanding his 54th Task Force aircraft carrier group in the vicinity of Makin Atoll, including 8 transports, 5 battleships, 6 cruisers, and 12 destroyers, as well as 11 aircraft carriers of various types in the Northern Aircraft Carrier Group.

During the escort landing, the U.S. military flew a total of 50 SBD-4 dreadnought bombers and 20 F-6F Hellcat fighters to carry out the escort attack.

As for the shelling on the side of the fleet, the first, second and third waves were covered by ferocious artillery fire from 5 battleships, and 3 cruisers, as well as 9 destroyers.

In short, under the command of Major General Lacalf Smith, commander of the 27th Infantry Division of the US Army, the troops conducting the landing operation were completely supported by the three-dimensional naval and air artillery fire of the US army.

Although the number of Japanese officers and soldiers killed was not as large as the US military expected, there were still many Japanese soldiers who were killed by the bombing.

Moreover, the most anxious and desperate thing for the Japanese troops defending the island was that the Japanese navy was stationed in other places, and there was no way to reach Makin Atoll in a short time to carry out sea support operations.

When the 105th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army landed one after another and seized one beachhead after another; The troops of the 165th Regiment of the U.S. Army also immediately followed, carrying out a rapid landing operation.

Not long after, the 2nd Battalion had landed on the small circular island of Kortab in the Majin Atoll on the small circular island of Makin Atoll, aboard the transports 'Neville' and 'Andaya', as well as a group of new amphibious personnel carriers.

They were accompanied by the 5th Platoon of the 4th Reconnaissance Company of the Amphibious Corps, commanded by Lieutenant Harvey Vickers.

As soon as the landing was successful, Lieutenant Harvey Vickers immediately formed a team with Second Lieutenant Earl Montgomery, platoon commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 165th Regiment of the U.S. Army, to conduct operational reconnaissance and deep inland operations.

Behind them was Company A, 165th Tank Battalion, a support unit of the 2nd Battalion of the 193rd Regiment, which was using their 75mm guns to clear the way for their advance.

Whenever there was anything suspicious, they would immediately strafe to guard against a surprise attack by Japanese officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the landing operation of the 165th Infantry Regiment of the US Army under the command of Lieutenant General Spru was relatively smooth and smooth.

Compared to the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, which was engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese front-line troops, it was much better.

However, the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army had 127 mm naval guns from the US destroyers USS Phelps and USS MacDonald to provide close naval gun fire support.

Moreover, there are more than 50 LVT-1 amphibious personnel carriers for assault landing operations, so the first and third battalions of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army also completed the landing operation safely with the strength of one squad of casualties, and continued to advance towards the inland defensive positions of the Japanese army, which was several times more numerous than them.

In other words, the troops of the 27th Division of the US Army, which successfully landed at Makin Atoll at this moment, are only the 105th Infantry Regiment and the 165th Infantry Regiment of the US Army.

This also officially opened the prelude to the battle of the U.S. military in Majin Atoll in November 1943, and whether the Japanese army could withstand the menacing surprise attack of the U.S. army became an unknown.