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On Iwo Jima there is an airfield, where twenty fighters and 1500 naval forces are stationed.

In February 1944, when the U.S. forces occupied the Marshall Islands, the Japanese army strengthened the military force on Iwo Jima, with a military force of 5,000 men, 13 artillery pieces, 200 light and heavy machine guns, 4,552 rifles, 12 anti-aircraft guns, 30 25 mm 2 anti-aircraft machine guns, and 120 mm guns in the fortifications. Iwo Jima and the Ogasawara Islands became the last line of defense against U.S. air strikes on the mainland. Because at that time, it was said that Ben had already lost sea and air supremacy.

After the US military captured the Mariana Islands in July 1944, it began to establish air bases and dispatched B-29 heavy bombers to attack the mainland. However, the Mariana Islands are nearly 1,500 nautical miles away from the mainland, and the B-29 can only carry 3 tons of bombs due to the range limitations, which is only 30 percent of the B-29's maximum bomb load. Moreover, because the range was too long, the fighters could not escort the entire flight, so the B-29 could only carry out area bombing at an altitude of 8,000 to 9,000 meters, and the results were very unsatisfactory.

Iwo Jima is 650 nautical miles north of Tokyo and 630 nautical miles south of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, almost in the middle of the two places, and the Chinese military on the island can not only provide early warning to Tokyo, but can also take off fighter planes to intercept them, and even constantly dispatch planes to attack US airfields on Saipan and other places, thus greatly reducing the role of the US military in strategic bombing of the mainland. Iwo Jima is like a fish in the throat for the US military. If the U.S. forces occupy Iwo Jima, all the disadvantages will be turned into advantages, and the range of the B-29 flight from Iwo Jima will be reduced by half, and the bomb load will be doubled. If the fighter takes off from Iwo Jima, it can provide the B-29 with escort throughout the whole process; Even medium bombers such as the B-24 were able to take off from Iwo Jima and strike at the mainland; More importantly, Iwo Jima can also be used as an alternate airfield for B-29 to make an emergency landing or refueling for the injured B-29. Therefore, the U.S. military is bound to win Iwo Jima!

Before the U.S. military decided to launch an attack on Iwo Jima, the Americans did something unexpected:

In view of the outstanding performance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma battlefield, the United States invited the Chinese [***] team to participate in the attack on Iwo Jima! And it was designated to participate in the 26th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, which performed exceptionally well on the battlefield in Burma!

Chiang Kai-shek and Gao Fei accepted this invitation from the US side without any hesitation!

Iwo Jima, located in the south of the Ogasawara Islands, is the second largest island of the archipelago, more than 1,200 kilometers from Tokyo in the north, more than 1,100 kilometers from Saipan in the south, and more than 500 kilometers from the Mariana Islands in the southeast. The island is about 8,000 meters long, about 4,000 meters wide, the shape resembles a ham, the area is about 20 square kilometers, there is an extinct volcano in the south of the island that has not been completely cooled, called Oriba Mountain, the altitude is 160 meters, the eruption of fog all year round, the smell of sulfur permeates the whole island, hence the name.

To the north of Mt. Oriba there is a relatively wide and flat plateau known as the Chubu Highlands, and further north, the terrain is gradually undulating and there are several peaks known as the Motosan area, and most of the island is covered in thick volcanic ash. Although Iwo Jima is small and small, it is located between Tokyo and Saipan, so its strategic position is very important.

Before 1944, the Japanese military only used Iwo Jima as an air relay base in the central and southern Pacific Ocean, and only deployed more than 1,500 naval garrisons and 20 aircraft. After the loss of the Mariana Islands in 1944, the important surname of Iwo Jima became more and more obvious, and the army began to vigorously strengthen its defense forces, sending more than 4,000 army troops to the island in late March; In May, the army units on Iwo Jima were reorganized into the 109th Division, with Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi as the division commander, and equipped with 120 and 155 mm shore guns, 100 mm anti-aircraft guns, and twin 25-mm anti-aircraft guns. In July, the 27th Air Force of the Navy was also transferred to the island. By February 1945, there were more than 15,000 army and 7,000 navy troops on the island, totaling about 23,000 people, and more than 30 aircraft, under the unified command of Kuribayashi. The army built an airfield in the central highlands and Wonsan area of the island, called the Qiandao Airport and the Wonsan Airport respectively, also called the No. 1 and No. 2 airfields, and built a third airfield north of the No. 2 airfield. Because the US military quickly captured the Mariana Islands, the personnel, equipment, and materials originally planned to be transported to the Mariana Islands were diverted to the nearest Iwo Jima; although the US military organized planes and submarines to attack with all their might in an attempt to cut off the reinforcements and supplies of Iwo Jima, the Chinese army used Chichijima as a transit point and adopted the method of small boat barge transportation, so the blockade effect of the US military was not ideal.

Since the main force of the navy and air force of the Chinese army was destroyed in the Philippine Campaign, it was no longer able to provide naval and air support for Iwo Jima, and the anti-landing operation on Iwo Jima had to be carried out with almost no naval and air support. Kuribayashi, an outstanding professional soldier who served as commander of the Emperor's Guard, realized that it would be difficult to achieve a beachhead operation in the face of the absolute superiority of the American army in the sea and air, and advocated a defense in depth by relying on strong fortifications in the favorable terrain of the mountains of Oribayama and Motoyama. However, the naval garrison still insisted on annihilating the enemy at the beachhead, and finally Kuribayashi made a compromise plan, focusing on in-depth defense, supplemented by beachhead defense, and the naval garrison building permanent launch points and solid support points along the beach for forward defense; The main force of the army was concentrated in the area of Oribasan and Wonsan, and the defense in depth was carried out.

Kuribayashi Tadamichi was determined to build Iwo Jima into a strong fortress, with Mt. Oriba as the core position, two airfields as the main defense zone, and a defensive position with permanent launch points and solid support points as the backbone on the east and west beaches suitable for landing. Most of the artillery positions were also built semi-underground, which, despite the sacrifice of the firing range, greatly improved the ability to survive heavy bombardment. The artillery and communication networks were well protected, and the mountain was almost hollowed out, with as many as nine layers of tunnels built! In view of the operational characteristics of the US troops, Kuribayashi has planted a large number of mines deep on the beach, and machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank guns have formed a dense network of firepower. The only drawback is that the tunnel fortifications that were originally planned to be built in the Wonsan area are 28 kilometers long, but due to lack of time, only 70% of the tunnels to be built in the Wonsan area were completed, about 18 kilometers, when the US military launched an attack, and there was no tunnel connection between Oribasan and Wonsan. Kuribayashi changed the tactics of the army in the early days of the war, stipulating tactics such as close-range shooting, mobile defense by dividing troops, and ambushing, and strictly forbade suicide charges, calling on every soldier to kill at least ten American soldiers. Kuribayashi's painstaking management did cause great difficulties for the U.S. military, making the Battle of Iwo Jima the most brutal and arduous landing battle in the Pacific.

Beginning on August 10, 1944, U.S. air forces stationed on Saipan began air raids on the Ogasawara Islands, focusing on the airfields on Iwo Jima and the port facilities on Chichijima, a transit ground for Iwo Jima's supplies. From August to October, there were 48 bombings, about 4,000 tons of bombs, but with little success.

On 24 November, the US military on Saipan dispatched for the first time B-29 Super Fortress bombers to bomb the mainland of Saipan, causing great fear among the Japanese troops and they immediately responded, and three days later, on 27 November, the US military on Iwo Jima dispatched two planes to attack the US B-29 air base on Saipan, destroying one B-29 and damaging 11 planes. In the days that followed, the Syrian army on Iwo Jima organized several air raids on the US military air base on Saipan, and by 2 January 1945, a total of six B-29 planes had been destroyed, seriously threatening the safety of the US B-29 air base. In order to suppress the attack and harassment of Iwo Jima's military planes, the US military organized a coordinated naval and air assault on 8 December 1944, and flew 192 sorties, including 62 sorties by B-29 heavy bombers, 102 sorties by B-24 medium bombers, 3 heavy cruisers, and 7 destroyers, dropping a total of 814 tons of bombs and firing 1,500 rounds of 203-mm shells and 5,334 rounds of 127-mm shells. Since this coordinated naval and air assault, the US military has organized four similar joint naval and air assaults in December.

Beginning on 9 December, the B-24 bombers of the Seventh Air Force commanded by Major General Hale went out to bomb Iwo Jima almost every day as long as the weather permitted, and the B-29 bombers on Saipan also joined in the bombing of Iwo Jima from time to time; by the beginning of February 1945, the US military had dispatched a total of 1,269 sorties of carrier-based aircraft, 1,479 sorties of shore-based air forces, and 64 warships, dropping a total of more than 6,800 tons of bombs and firing more than 20,000 rounds of large-caliber naval artillery shells, including 203 rounds of 406-millimeter shells. 203 rounds of 203-mm shells, 127-mm rounds of 15251 rounds. The US army's fierce and intensive fire bombardment, because the defense of the Chinese army was extremely strong, the effect was very limited, and the two airfields on the island could not be completely destroyed, and the Chinese army was always able to quickly repair them after the air raid, and the Chinese army initially appreciated the firepower of the US army, and devoted all its efforts to building fortifications with tunnels as the backbone.

On January 26, 1945, the Third Fleet, which had completed the mission of providing operational support for the landing on Luzon Island, returned to the Ulisi base for rest. Admiral Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet, transferred command to Spruance, and the Third Fleet was immediately renamed the Fifth Fleet, which was a new measure implemented by the US military since the fall of 1944. When commanded by Spruance, it was called the Fifth Fleet, and one person generally commanded the battle at the front while the other planned the next operation in the rear, so as to make full use of the force and confuse the army.

Initially, both Spruance and Nimitz thought that it would not take much effort to capture such a small island, but after looking at aerial photographs taken by the aerial reconnaissance of Iwo Jima, they realized that there was a very high probability of an unusual defense system on this island, and after carefully studying the aerial photos, Lieutenant General Smith said that it would be the most difficult island to capture, and estimated 20,000 casualties.

On January 28, the commander of the 21st Air Force of the Army Air Force, who was responsible for organizing the strategic bombing of the Japanese army's homeland, said that Curtis. When Rear Admiral Li May came to consult with the air force on how to support the Iwo Jima landing operation, Spruance asked him how much Iwo Jima was worth to the war. Li Mei immediately affirmed that without Iwo Jima, it would be impossible to effectively carry out strategic bombing on the mainland of the Japanese army. Spruance was relieved and determined to capture Iwo Jima at great cost.

On 2 February, Nimitz came to Ulisi to inspect preparations for the Iwo Jima operation. Spruance proposed that in order to prevent possible reinforcements to Iwo Jima, carrier-based aviation must first be used to suppress the airfields in the Kanto region on the Japanese mainland, and Nimitz agreed. Nimitz then traveled to Saipan to observe the combat exercises conducted by three Marine Divisions of the Fifth Amphibious Corps, which were to carry out landing operations on Iwo Jima.

On 10 February, Spruance took the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis as the flagship and the commander of the 58th Task Force, Mitchell, with the aircraft carrier "Bunker Hill" as the flagship, together with an aircraft carrier formation of 12 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 15 cruisers, and 77 destroyers, sailed out of Ulisi, passed east of the Mariana Islands and the Ogasawara Islands, and went straight to the mainland of the Chinese army. This was the first time that the U.S. aircraft carrier group had attacked the mainland since Doolittle's air raid on Tokyo in April 1942. Spruance planned to arrive off the coast of Saimoto on the 16th, and on the 16th and 17th, he planned to carry out air raids on the airfields in the Kanto region of the native area of the country, and then go south to participate in the Iwo Jima operation. He was particularly worried about the threat of the Japanese army's kamikaze forces, so there were only 30 bombers and torpedo planes on each carrier, and the rest were all fighters. In order to minimize the possibility of being discovered by the Japanese military, a number of submarines were dispatched to conduct reconnaissance and search in front of the formation's channel, while Saipan's shore-based air force used B-24 and B-29 to patrol and guard the sea area through which the formation passed. The formation itself also used a number of destroyers to form a search screen in front of the formation, and at the same time used carrier-based aircraft to conduct 24-hour uninterrupted antisubmarine vigilance. It was precisely because of the above-mentioned strict precautionary measures and the cover of bad weather that the US aircraft carrier squadron reached the sea area 125 nautical miles southeast of Tokyo at dawn on 16 July, only 60 nautical miles from the nearest mainland coast of Tokyo, and was still not discovered by the Japanese army.

On 16 February, the US aircraft carrier squadron flew more than 1,000 sorties of carrier-based aircraft, divided into several attack waves, and attacked various airfields in Tokyo Bay.

On 17 February, the US military flew more than 500 sorties of two attack wave carrier-based planes to bomb airfields, aircraft factories, anchored ships, and other targets in the Kanto region. In the past two days, the US military shot down 332 planes and destroyed 177 planes on the ground in air battles, causing some damage to some airfields and aircraft factories. In the afternoon of the same day, the US aircraft carrier squadron left the coast of Japan and headed south to take part in the Iwo Jima operation.

On February 14, William. Rear Admiral Brandi led a fire support formation consisting of 6 battleships, 12 escort carriers, 5 cruisers, and 16 destroyers from Saipan to Iwo Jima.

On 15 February, US Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, accompanied by Nimitz, arrived on Saipan to listen to a report on the Battle of Iwo Jima and inspect preparations for the battle. Turner, commander of the landing formation, known as the "alligator," who had just recovered from a serious illness, reported that he had planned to prepare for 10 days of artillery fire on Iwo Jima, because the warships could not carry the ammunition for the 10-day shelling and could only carry out three days of shelling, but Turner said that three days of artillery bombardment of a small island with an area of only 20 square kilometers was sufficient, and the defense that could not be destroyed by artillery fire would be completed by the landing force.

In the early morning of February 16, Brandy's fire support formation arrived in the waters off Iwo Jima and began to carry out pre-fire preparations. All battleships, cruisers were divided into lots, and the identified targets were destroyed one by one. To ensure the accuracy of the shelling, several battleships even conducted direct aimed fire at the target at a distance of only 3000 meters from the shore.

At about 6:45 a.m. on 29 February, more than 300 planes bombed the small landing site.

The black ash from the bombs falling on the beach scattered in the air, and the whole of Iwo Jima seemed to be shrouded in a black fog. At about 7:30, the first commandos left the transport ship and boarded the landing craft, assault boat and amphibious landing vehicle. By 8 o'clock, the planes were still bombing, and the density of their bombs and the intensity of the explosions were simply unbelievable. And a large group of heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers joined in, and at a distance of 1500 meters from the beach, these warships lined up and bombarded the island directly. Iwo Jima was completely covered in black smoke and fire, so much so that some of the Marines who were about to land suspected that the island had disappeared from the surface and sunk into the sea before they had even set foot on it. A military correspondent in the U.S. Marine Corps, named Richard E. Mawson, radioed live the landing operations to millions of American homes on different bands. Here's how he describes it:

"The weather wasn't good, but now it's getting worse! A large dark cloud hung over the landing beach, but this was not natural, it was caused by shells and bombs of our Americans, and this is Iwo Jima, which is the most direct report from the field. To the right of the landing site there is a hanging rock, and on the hanging rock there is a cement bunker, oh God! I said I fired! It's heavy mortars and anti-aircraft machine guns, and tracer bullets are like a series of red ping-pong balls! A cruiser began to fire at it, and planes rushed over. Explode! Finished! I said that my bunker is finished! The mouth of the bunker was blackened by the explosion of gunpowder, and the bunker collapsed and the cannonballs and bombs raised a large number of earth waves, and Iwo Jima behind the beach became an island of fire."

Mawson's reporting was a great success, and his popularity increased greatly, and he became a household name in the United States as a military correspondent. People say:

"His report was far more exciting and gripping than the explosion of bombs and shells, or the whistling of planes as they dived." Near the landing site on the beach of Iwo Jima and Erjian Island, the sea water is not too deep, only a few meters. But behind the beach there is a 1.7-meter-high staircase made of volcanic rock, covered with thick volcanic ash, and behind the staircase is a smooth slope, behind which is a volcanic rock staircase about 1.2 meters high. These are not built by himself, but by nature's natural terrain. It blocked the way of tanks, armored vehicles, bulldozers and special amphibious combat vehicles of the American army. U.S. carrier-based bombers are desperately throwing bombs on the steps, trying to blow them up and open gaps for tanks, armored vehicles, and other military vehicles. Fighter jets were strafing everything they deemed suspicious around the beach. Some of the landing craft also fired with rockets.

At 8:30 a.m., a group of landing craft began to rush to the beach, and the rest of the assault boats, landing craft, and amphibious landing vehicles, at five-minute intervals, followed by one group after another. The order of landing craft landing was as follows: the first batch was the officers and men of the Marine Corps equipped with 75 mm caliber guns and mortars, recoilless guns, machine guns, flamethrower guns; The second batch were tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers; The third batch is a support force; Finally, there are the logisticians and the temporary field hospitals. At 8:45 a.m., the first batch of "B-29" super air fortresses, which took off from the Mariana Islands and rushed to the skies over Iwo Jima, and carrier-based bombers that took off from aircraft carriers once again violently bombed the southwest area of Iwo Jima that was about to land.

And the battleships and heavy cruisers of the 38th task force on the sea also began barrage firing at the beach. The shelling of warships reached a depth of almost 1000 meters. A little farther it will cross the entire island, and the shells will fall on the other side of the sea and explode. Under this heavy shelling and bombardment, the defenders of the island seemed to be dead, not a single shot was fired, not a single shot was fired, and there was silence. Once again, smoke rose from the beach, with a predominantly black tone, mixed with white, yellow, and red. At 9 o'clock, the first Marine commandos landed, and the soldiers jumped out of the landing craft, dragged mortars, machine guns and recoilless guns, waded into the sea and rushed to the beach.

The black ash on the beach, as fine as soot, was buried deep in the calves of the soldiers, and this was the only difficulty in the advance, and a large number of officers and soldiers rushed to the beach in the smoke. According to the plan, a commando team armed with submachine guns, flamethrowers, and recoilless guns landed first, and their mission was to occupy the slope, clear the bunker that they might be hiding in the volcanic rock steps, and blow a gap in the 1.2-meter-high rock steps above the slope to open a way forward. The soldiers on the landing craft behind were on standby, and they watched as the first landing craft with their companions rushed to the beach, and the commandos of the Marine Corps began to land on the island.

Throughout the course of the campaign, there will always be one person who will be the first to set foot on enemy soil. The officers and men of the follow-up unit saw that the soldiers of the assault team waded into the water and washed up on the beach, and some of them turned around and waved to them.

Then they formed a skirmish line and cautiously moved forward, towards the silent island, which was full of craters from bombs and shells. This volcanic island is still a small island that has puzzled many American soldiers, and it is said that he rarely fires, and the whole of Iwo Jima is lurking under the black smoke, and everywhere is full of murderous intent .

The artillery was still bombarding the depths of the island, and the sky was covered with black clouds of ash smoke. In the eyes of the Marines, it was a tragic, grim and gloomy picture, and on the 3rd batch of landing craft, the soldiers kept their eyes on the island and maintained a nervous silence. As soon as the first commandos landed on the beach, the warships stopped shelling, but the planes in the air continued to dive and strafe. As soon as the plane flew away, the guns on the warship opened fire again. In the midst of another deafening explosion, smoke and flames erupted on Iwo Jima, and from time to time, straight pillars of flame rose from the smoke. All the jungle on Iwo Jima was burning, and there were few coconut trees, banana trees, and some unnamed trees, and now only a few charred, blown off black trunks. I can't find a single tree with a decent number of technical leaves. Thick clouds of smoke and fire rose from the ground, all the way up into the sky. At 9:30 a.m., at most half an hour after the first commandos landed, he began to counterattack. When the first batch of shells exploded near the US landing craft, the officers and men of the Marine commandos who landed were carefully checking whether the terrain of the landing site matched the number marked on the map and whether they had made a mistake.

From the very beginning of the landing, the commandos of the Marine Corps felt that something was not quite right, even a little odd. It has been almost six hours since the warships began shelling at 3 o'clock in the morning, and he said that he had not fired a single shot or fired a single shot, as if he had all died. And now, I can still condescendingly shoot at them! Then the American GIs who landed discovered something even more incomprehensible, that the shells that had come from the scorched, bombed-out island were very peculiar, and that they did not hurt anyone, although they exploded with great noise. But when these shells landed on the landing craft and on the beach, they turned into a fine powder like sand. The soldiers looked at these whistling and flying shells with suspicion, blowing up billowing smoke and dust, but they were thinking in their hearts, what the hell am I doing? What else will happen?

At 10 o'clock, the artillery on the American warship stopped firing. Because the commandos of the landing Marine Corps had begun to rush to the slope, advancing towards the second volcanic rock step. This group of commandos was a unit of the 1st Marine Division, and their division commander was Lieutenant General Vandergritt. Although the lieutenant general is now the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, he is also the commander of the 1st Landing Division. You can't fire any more guns, otherwise you will be injured by mistake. However, the US fighter planes in the air were still circling in clusters, diving and strafing. The landing Marines were trying to clear the way so that tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers could be driven. He began to return fire seriously and violently, countless mortar shells, anti-aircraft machine gun bullets were fired at the beach, and American fighters in the air were in vain attacking these firing points hidden in the volcanic rock caves. The commandos of the Marine Corps were caught in the fire of the defenders, and the work of opening the way became more and more difficult. In and around them, shells are exploding, bullets are chirping! Chirp! The cry was even more frightening.

The loud and chaotic noise made the American soldiers feel as if they were surrounded by countless rampaging lions. On the beach, fireworks are churning. Bullets rained down on a basin of water. One by one, the commandos were swept down, and the rest lay on the unsheltered sand, letting the bullets fly around them, and the only thing they could do was to pray to God incessantly in their hearts. How many commandos died on the beach at the landing site is simply impossible to count. Among them, including the commando captain, Huang Lin's partner on Guadalcal Island, Major Carolin, the commandos who landed by the American troops were in a difficult situation.

Haeckel. Dunga. Major Caroline was the commander of this assault team, and he and about 100 or so soldiers were pressed by bullets and mortar shells under the slope behind the first volcanic rock steps on the beach, the slope was about 10 meters long, the slope was not large, it was estimated that it did not exceed 15 degrees, but there was also a volcanic rock step about 1.2 meters high above the slope, the air raid planes failed to blow it up, and the naval guns did not hit it, and the assault team had to blow it up to open a path. Behind the commandos, landing craft carrying tanks, bulldozers, armored vehicles and special amphibious vehicles were storming the beach. Two landing craft have been hit, one has caught fire, and the other is sinking with a ship full of heavy weapons.

Several amphibious vehicles had already rushed out of the landing craft, one had been overturned, and the other three were rushing to the beach under artillery fire. If the road is not opened in time, these amphibious vehicles, as well as tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers that are rushing onto the beach from landing craft and floating docks, will get stuck on the beach. Of course, I am happy to shoot these prey trapped in cages, and I believe that it will be accurate by a dozen.

The road must be opened, as dictated by the situation on the battlefield. Can't wait to die here.

Caroline waved her arms, and a group of three commandos bravely braved the rain of bullets to rush to the stone steps on the slope with blasters in their hands. But this slope of about 10 meters has become the last road they have walked through life. One of the commandos rushed less than 5 meters away before he rolled down, and he was hit by two anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, one in the head and the other in the abdomen, killing him almost instantly. The other two commandos rushed to the stone steps, but as soon as they put down the blaster, they were hit, and one of the commandos was hit by the bullet, and his lifeless body fell down the slope half-tumbling and half-rolling. The other commando, a sergeant, was killed on the spot after being hit, his right finger still buckled to the cable loop of the blaster, but he never had the opportunity or strength to pull it.

Without the slightest hesitation, the three soldiers of the second group rushed bravely again, but bravery could not stop the Grim Reaper from wielding its scythe, and the group of commandos was even more unlucky, they even climbed and rolled to the middle of the slope, and one of their heavy mortar shells flew over, landed impartially in the middle of them and exploded, and the three soldiers were blown away. Their bodies were tossed high, twisted and thrown to the charred earth. At this time, it is not an exaggeration to describe Erjian Beach as 'hell', with swarms of shells exploding on the beach, raising fire, smoke and ash that obscures the sky. The steel helmets, guns, and severed arms of American soldiers flew in the air.

Bullets from the army's various machine guns ploughed deep trenches in the volcanic ash, some ships were burning on the sea, some landing craft were retreating, and some were advancing bravely. U.S. battleships, heavy cruisers, and several destroyers were firing aimlessly, and the carrier-based planes that appeared in the sky seemed to be helpless to find out what they were hiding in the cave. Although these planes continued to dive, rockets and bombs, the firepower of the Syrian army did not weaken at all, and it was still very fierce. Some of the tanks and armored vehicles that had landed ashore were like old wolves trapped in cages, and they were so anxious that they swirled around in the black ash and smoke and flames in the sky, not knowing where to hide, where to advance, and where to fire. The situation is simply a mess. Rather than blocking the American landing head-on on the beach at the landing site, the army had these armed tourists and recreations land on the island and welcome the invaders with machine guns and cannons hidden in caves in the rock that could shoot down on the beach. This method is very good, and it is said that I am quite efficient in killing American GIs by waiting for work.

Major Caroline was in a hurry, he threw away the Thomson submachine gun in his hand, he grabbed two blasters and jumped out of hiding under the slope. He was followed by four other soldiers. They ran left and right, jumping forward in a maneuvering manner, machine gun bullets exploding at their feet, and light and fine ash filling the major's nostrils, and Caroline felt that he could no longer breathe, and he had to open his mouth wide and inhale a large amount of foul air in his lungs. Halfway up the slope, a heavy mortar shell exploded on the left behind the major. He heard the screams of the soldiers behind him, and his left leg seemed to have been kicked so hard that he almost fell. Blood ran down his trousers. Caroline knew she was hurt, but she couldn't care about it now.

He staggered on, and another barrage of machine-gun bullets flew in, knocking the steel helmet off his head, sending a great pain in his right ear and a stream of sticky liquid running down his ash-stained cheek. Caroline didn't care about anything, he pounced and grabbed the blaster ring in the hands of the first group of fallen soldiers. He immediately lay down, turned sideways and sent the two blasters he had brought, he clasped the pull rings of the three blasters in his hand, and when he was about to exert his strength, another string of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets flew over, and the bullets hit him almost all, the major commander of the commando team was shot 9 times in his body, and he pulled the string with the last bit of strength of his life, and the violent explosion engulfed him. The blaster on the stone steps exploded, and Major Caroline's body was tossed high by the air wave and fell into the air. In the aftermath, the soldiers found nine large holes in the flesh of their own anti-aircraft machine gun, which ran from the back to the front of the chest. Dunga. Major Caroline was killed.

The assault road was finally opened, and in order to open this passage, the Marine Corps commandos lost a total of 23 officers and men, including their major commander.

The tank passed the slope and rushed up through the gap in the stone steps, and the armored vehicle also rushed up crookedly. But the situation does not seem to be improving, and the second group of marines who landed are still stuck on the beach with 50 centimeters of volcanic ash. He said that his firepower was not curtailed by the fact that the Sherman tank of the American army rushed up the stone steps. The first tanks to rush onto the island blindly turned their muzzles, spinning in a daze, not knowing where to fire, like a group of unorganized, undisciplined, and purposeless giant turtles crawling around the ground.

It was 10 o'clock in the morning, and there were large and heavy clouds in the gloomy sky, and the sunlight peeked out only occasionally through the cracks in the clouds, shining a faint golden glow. Perhaps it didn't want to see the bloody scenes of creatures on this planet killing each other, and hid itself behind thick clouds, but from time to time it poked its head out to see if the disgusting slaughter was over. Except for the sound of gunfire, Iwo Jima is silent and deserted.

The pilot was on a "shrew pose", looking down on this volcanic island from 7,000 meters in the air.

From an aesthetic point of view, Iwo Jima is indeed ugly, the whole island is like a monster floating on the sea, the extinct volcano called Mt. Oriba or Mount Suribacho is its head, the beach is like its neck, and the rest is covered with jungle, shrubs and countless caves, and the earth covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash and the overhanging rock cliffs near the sea are already its body

The pilot saw the striker commandos rushing up the second stone staircase following the Sherman tanks and armored vehicles, but they were still attacked by machine guns and rifles from their bunkers and caves, and mortar shells exploded around them from time to time. On the beach, 4 landing craft were still burning, but they were empty.

Three more landing craft bravely rushed to the beach under artillery fire, the inclined board was put down in a heavy way, and tanks, armored vehicles, amphibious special operations vehicles, and bulldozers jumped out!

(To be continued)