At the same time that the US landing ships on the sea were mercilessly killed by the German Type 21 U-boats, dozens of large and small landing craft were breaking through the fog on the sea in the early morning and leaning on the tidal flats near Georgetown City with a bang. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the landing craft could come to a stop, the bow hatch creaked into the knee-high water, and the full load of American officers and soldiers jumped into the water with their heads covered. The tall, bearded, tall U.S. Marine captain with a steel helmet on his head, an M3A1 submachine gun (Gade submachine gun) and a large backpack on his back, shouted "God bless America!" The slogan, which looks a little crazy, doesn't seem to care about death at all. However, the American GIs who rumbled into the water behind him looked nervous one by one.

"Guys, follow me! Come with me to kill the Germans! ”

Company Commander, 4th Amphibious Assault Battalion, 4th Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps, John Brown, Company E. Captain Miller was a veteran of the bloody Battle of Nihawau, when he led a platoon of Marines to the beachhead of Niihau...... Then he and his men plunged headlong into the web of fire woven by various Japanese ammunition. His platoon lost two-thirds of its men in the process of storming and landing on the beach alone, and the 4th Amphibious Assault Battalion of the 4th Marine Division was also damaged in the day's battle.

And now, John. Captain Miller is going to take a company of American youths to face all kinds of ammunition from German devils who are 10 times more terrible than the Japanese!

As an American man who crawled out of the dead pile on Niihau, he had long thought that leading the landing on Georgetown was a mortal mission. However, out of loyalty to the American motherland and belief in freedom and democracy, he gladly accepted the order and accepted the mission of death.

And, as early as the day after he landed on Niihau, he thought of himself as a dead man!

So he is not afraid of death and is ready to die.

Before the beach-grabbing landing began, the American landing formation was attacked by German planes, torpedo boats, and submarines in turn, which also strengthened Captain Miller's confidence in death!

Before the landing, there were already heavy losses, and even the commander of the 4th Marine Division, Clifton. The dock landing ship Alanche, on which Rear Admiral Katz was riding, was sunk, so how many casualties could there be in the following landing operations?

Therefore, the marines who followed Captain Miller to the flooding landing, in the morning fog, were all afraid, afraid that the combined attack of all kinds of German firepower would lead to the terrible E-50 tank - even the Japanese knew about the deployment of T-34 tanks near the beach, and their teacher, the Germans, would not know? However, the Germans will definitely not use the old T-34, but the powerful E-50 tank and the Tiger tank!

According to the intelligence provided by the Soviets, the German E-50 tank could withstand even the fire of the Soviet 122mm cannon!

In order to combat this terrible tank, the U.S. Army urgently modified the M10A1 tank destroyer, installed a 90mm anti-aircraft gun on the body of the M10A1, and produced the M36 tank destroyer. The 4th Tank Battalion of the Marine Corps (part of the 4th Marine Division) was also equipped with a company of M36 tank destroyers (17 M36s) before marching into Guyana.

However, the 17 valuable M36 tank destroyers, all loaded on the dock landing ship Alanche, have now sunk into the sea with the ship.

That is, the officers and men of the 4th Marine Division, which is now rushing to the Georgetown beachhead, simply do not know what weapons to use against the German E-50 tanks?

However, the landing of the 4th Marine Division will not be canceled because of the absence of M36 tank destroyers. The campaign against British Guiana was so important to the United States that it was a decisive battle for the fortunes of the country.

Because British Guiana was the bridgehead for the German invasion of the Caribbean, Georgetown was less than 500 kilometers from Trini. Most German shore-based aircraft were able to attack Trinidad from Georgetown, a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier! As long as it remains in German hands, the US forces on Trinidad may lose air superiority at any time!

Therefore, several thousand officers and men of the 4th Marine Division, including Captain Miller, embarked on the journey of "liberating" British Guiana without hesitation, despite the fact that their landing fleet had just been attacked by German planes, submarines, and torpedo boats, and that they had suffered heavy losses and had lost many supplies and technical equipment.

Miller and his men clutched their guns and rushed desperately towards the beachhead. But the knee-high sea water and the soft tidal flats made their footsteps unfast, and everyone was already sweating profusely in the blink of an eye, and the distance of a few hundred meters and less than a thousand meters was less than half of it.

Captain Miller was still at the front, his heart was beating like a heart attack, and although he had long since put death out of the question, he was still very nervous when death was just around the corner.

In particular, there was no gunfire on the beachhead until now, which made Captain Miller smell a strong smell of danger.

It's time to get closer and then fire! Only the truly battle-hardened elite can calm down in front of the enemy who has landed like a tide, put the enemy at the most ideal firing distance, and then kill them with incomparably accurate firepower.

And the German army that held on to Georgetown Island was undoubtedly such an elite!

But Captain Miller's imaginary accurate shooting never appeared, and when he and the more than 100 officers and men he commanded finally rushed to the beachhead. As far as the eye can see, there is a shantytown on the edge of the beach that has been bombed to rubble by American planes and warships - home to local Indians and black fishermen in Guyana. Because it was too close to the beach, the American military thought that it might be hiding the German firepower, so it was repeatedly bombed and shelled. Now all that remained was a pile of rotten wood and all sorts of miscellaneous rags, and of course many fragments of blacks and Indians waiting to be rescued by American GIs, mostly old people and children, and no young men, because the young men and women had been captured by the Germans and sent to work in the "Georgetown Island Fortress......

"Captain, there don't seem to be Germans here!" A sergeant who was following Captain Miller shouted to him. "They probably couldn't stand the shelling and fled, right?"

"Escape?" Captain Miller glanced sideways at the sergeant beside him, "They haven't really escaped once in this war!" ”

"But there really aren't any Germans here, if any...... It should have been fired. ”

Captain Miller looked around again, and now there were more and more American GIs rushing to the beachhead, and several amphibious tanks converted from M4 tanks also rumbling onto the beachhead, while the direction of downtown Georgetown was still quiet.

"Well, there may not be any Germans here, but they will definitely fire at us somewhere!" Captain Miller affirmed his judgment and yelled at the company's standard-bearer and one of the sergeants in charge of signal liaison: "Find a place a little higher and put up our Star-Spangled Banner so that the damned Germans know that America is ashore!"

Signal flares were fired again to tell the sea: the landing was successful, the landing ground was safe, and the beaches of Georgetown were already under the control of the US military! ”

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"Look, red flares, 3 in a row!"

"That's a sign of a successful landing!"

"The Star-Spangled Banner, it looks like someone else has put up the Star-Spangled Banner, right on the beach in Georgetown!"

"God bless America, we are victorious!"

"Victory!"

At sea, oh, it should have been a cheering sound in the sea, which made the somewhat groggy US Marine Corps Major General Clifton. Kaze pulled himself together again.

The U.S. Marine Corps rear admiral is now wearing a life jacket and waiting for rescue in the waters less than eight kilometers from Georgetown Beach along with hundreds of American GIs who jumped from the USS Ashland dock landing ship.

His mood is completely understandable, the combat operation of landing in Georgetown has just begun, and his 4th Marine Division was violently beaten by several German U-boats (6 Type 21 U-boats) at sea, and a total of 24 landing ships of various types were either sunk or stranded, accounting for almost 20% of the total landing ships occupied by the 4th Marine Division, and these 24 landing ships are all large ships. These included 3 valuable dock landing ships and 12 tank landing ships (including various support ships converted from tank landing ships).

At least 4,000 U.S. officers and soldiers are now either drowning or soaking in the sea waiting to drown. One of them is Major General Kaits, who is the commander of the 4th Marine Division!

Heavy losses were already taken before the landing, and the division headquarters (both the division headquarters and Rear Admiral Kaiz were on the Ashland) and a key tank destroyer company were lost, as well as a large amount of heavy equipment. So Major General Kazi, who had fought the Second Battle of the Hawaiian Islands, had just now been quite certain that there was no hope of success in the landing operation - his forces had been defeated and Operation Liberty had failed.

But just when he was feeling desperate, the Star-Spangled Banner was raised on the beach of Georgetown.

Major General Kazi, who had regained some energy, hurriedly raised the binoculars that had been soaked in the water for an unknown amount of time and looked in the direction of the beach. Sure enough, there was one, no, a few Star-Spangled Banners on the beachhead.

And there were no signs of fighting on the beachhead, which indicates that the landing was a success, and the beachhead at Georgetown was firmly under the control of the American landing force.

Major General Ketz thought to himself: I actually won a battle, and I can win it in this way, it's incredible!