Mouth month day.
The U.S.
Northern Fleet group arrived in the waters of the battle on Saipan.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese and US fighters took the lead in fighting each other, and the Battle of Jiban Island officially began.
The fierceness, scale, time, and airspace of the air battle exceeded the expectations of both sides; in the two-day air battle, the Japanese lost 429 fighters, lightning planes, bombers, and other types of aircraft, while the US forces lost 235 planes.
On the morning of 2 July, the fierce air battle on Saipan turned into two pilots shooting at each other's parachute pilots.
The forced landing on the sea surface was not carried out at the last resort, and the losses of US carrier-based aircraft and land-based fighters were staggering.
At noon on 2 July, Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese campaign, fearing that the rapid loss of pilots and fighters would affect subsequent operations, ordered the Japanese planes to withdraw from the struggle for air supremacy on Saipan and instead stationed on Tinian Island, ready to attack at any time.
On the afternoon of 2 July, under the cover of fighter planes, a huge group of U.S. prisoner bombers carried out a "carpet operation" on Saipan, which was also known as the "carpet bombing" in later generations.
In front of them, the battle patrol formation immediately began to approach the waters of Saipan and carried out artillery fire and targeted clearance according to the pre-divided area.
Guns of less than 0 calibers poured all their ammunition into the beachhead and extended areas, and the six-pack "Reaper" anti-aircraft guns with blades of millimeters used tracer shells like chains to indicate the area of the main guns.
The bombarded battleship's sub-turrets fired a spectacular delay, and the battleship's huge guns spread with sound waves visible to the naked eye when they were fired, and the Chinese officers and men standing on the deck of the landing ship were dumbfounded, and the cruisers, fire support ships, and tank landing ships were even more obscured by the four-millimeter rockets, and groups of bright spots rushed straight to Saipan.
The explosion turned Saipan into an artificial volcano, shaking the ground as if the entire island was about to sink at any moment.
No one in front of them will doubt whether this battle can be won, and more Chinese officers and soldiers are afraid that this time they will run in vain, the battle is estimated to be enough to choke and fight, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to run away for the greasy work of cleaning up the stumps, broken arms and meat mud for the little devils.
Song Yuhang, who was holding a telescope, looked at Saipan with great concern, and the artillery fire and bombardment of the US fire support fleet fell on every inch of the island, and the Japanese troops on Saipan did not react at all While watching the battle, several US fighter planes suddenly swept over the ground and air like a lightning speed, and flew towards the vast sea area to the east.
When everyone was stunned, Song Yuhang hurriedly snatched the observation instrument from Liang Chao's hand, twisted the degree search, and suddenly appeared in the clear sky, not more than a dozen catties, a few catties or even more small black dots, no need to confirm, no need to ask, Song Yuhang immediately turned around and shouted: "Pull the air defense alarm" The buzzing, screeching, shrill air raid sirens seemed to carry a hint of desolation and panic.
Soon, the Japanese plane and the US plane became entangled together.
Whether it is a destroyer that serves as an anti-aircraft anti-submarine ship.
Or a transport ship or a fireship with artillery on board.
Even the infantry with four machine guns was moved out, for a time.
Almost all the weapons capable of firing at the air were fired at the same time, and the Japanese and American fighters chasing each other in the sky were also out of proportion, and a US soldier was obviously directly hit by a shell from a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun, and disintegrated in the air into a ball of fire.
Song Yuhang looked at the white flowers that bloomed like flowers in the sky, he knew that those were the fixed-fuse barrage of anti-aircraft guns, and the black clouds were high-altitude anti-aircraft artillery fire of more than four millimeters, and those that were like whips in the sky were knives, forces, and 10,000-millimeter machine guns.
Even with such rapid firepower, the Japanese mine-strike planes and bombers still risked their lives to attack the group of transport ships, and the Japanese Qing'an, what can really threaten Saipan is not a battleship or an aircraft carrier, but these landing ships and transport ships carrying a large number of infantry and tanks, as long as they are defeated, the American battleships and aircraft carriers will not be able to land in the end.
The Japanese are very shrewd in their calculations.
The incoming aircraft were not part of the Combined Naval Fleet.
Rather, it was subordinate to the Army Air Corps, and the Japanese base camp assigned it to the No. 1 Army stationed on Saipan to strengthen the air defense.
However, these pilots, who had only received three months of intensive training, greatly disappointed Xiao Yingliang, who had always placed high hopes, and those immature faces and crooked performance when landing made Xiao Bao Yingliang dare not imagine how these pilots, who only had less than 20 hours of flying experience, could fight against experienced American pilots, and there were not many heavy torpedoes and heavy aerial bombs stored on Saipan for attack, and perhaps a failed attack would have to take these precious ammunition and armor burning planes and Mao Xing.
Finally, the chief of staff of the armed forces, Major General Jingzhi Keiji, raised the question of whether or not to encourage these enthusiastic young men to fly fighter planes carrying torpedoes or bombs to ram the US landing ship group Keiji Izai's proposal was echoed by Hidera Koblast, Yoshiji Saito, and others, so after constant instigation and instigation, a pilot finally joined the so-called "kamikaze death squad" The decisive raid by Keiji Izuku put the Japanese army's last suicide attack in the Battle of Okinawa for more than half a year.
Looking at the unusual tactical movements and large-angle attack patterns of the Japanese planes, Song Yuhang suddenly remembered the Japanese "kamikaze" in later generations, but in his memory, during the Battle of Saipan, the Japanese army did not invest in or launched the so-called suicide attack, and the Japanese army aviation and naval aviation did not approve of this self-destructive attack method, but it was only in the later period that the Allied forces approached the Japanese mainland.
The whizzing Japanese lightning planes were not very fast because they were torpedoed, and they were very easy to become targets for intensive anti-aircraft firepower, and because the initial artillery fire of some of the enemy and our own frightened the US fighters, the interception of the US fighters was very cautious.
It seems that they are afraid of being fired by their own artillery.
Whenever a Japanese plane was hit and smoked, caught fire, or tumbled into the sea, a burst of cheers erupted from the landing ship, and Song Yuhang could even see the officers and men of the 27th Infantry Division of the US Army on the transport ship "Miss Alice" next door waving their military caps to cheer for themselves.
However, there were always loopholes in the tight protection, and a Japanese bomber plunged headlong into the "Miss Alice" transport ship with a sharp and piercing whistling sound, and the Japanese plane hit the rear deck with some of the ammunition it carried.
The force of the impact caused the wreckage to burst open the rear oak deck, but miraculously there was no explosion except for some burning fuel The lieutenant colonel of the US army, who had survived the catastrophe, walked tremblingly to the big hole in the deck, and the US lieutenant colonel was surprised to find that the cap of the time-delay fuse of a white 500-pound aerial bomb was turning rapidly, and the US lieutenant colonel's throat let out an uncontrollable desperate scream.
Boom, an explosion like a salute occurred less than 200 meters away from the St.
Mary's command ship of Song Yuhang, and the violent shock wave swept all the Chinese officers and men on the deck of the St.
Mary, and several officers and men who were closer to the side of the ship also fell into the sea.
Song Yuhang looked at the twisted hull of the Miss Alice landing transport ship in amazement, it was obvious that the violent explosion had destroyed its keel, and the hull was tilting rapidly.
The raging fires are also spreading rapidly.
Several U.S. officers and soldiers who were mixed with fire screamed and tumbled into the water, and with one continuous explosion after another, Song Yuhang could clearly see the broken body flying high into the sky.
An old machine gun, which had been twisted and deformed, fell from the sky with a clatter, smashing a large crater into the St.
Mary's conning tower, and there were no casualties.
When several nearby destroyers were about to come to the rescue, the Miss Alice suddenly shook its hull, broke in two, and sank at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye, causing a whirlpool that swept away dozens of American officers and soldiers who had not yet had time to get out of the wreck.
The tragedy happened so fast, so fast that people didn't react, and the debris and corpses on the surface of the sea seemed to remind people of what had just happened.
Song Yuhang clearly remembered that the Miss Alice transport landing ship not only carried two reinforced infantry companies of American officers and soldiers and one-fifth of the field hospital of the 27th Infantry Division, but more importantly, there were four or two Shermans in its bilge.
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Amphibious tanks.
No one knows better than Song Yuhang the importance of these Sherman amphibious tanks, although the land amphibious armored vehicles have a certain effect, but their millimeter thick armor can not even resist the Japanese army's millimeter combat anti-aircraft guns, if they are directly hit, especially in the process of grabbing the beach.
Losing a car is equivalent to losing a platoon's strength, and this kind of loss cannot be borne by any army, and it is necessary to rely on the first wave of attacking troops to seize the beachhead and abandon Sherman.
The importance of amphibious tanks is undoubtedly revealed, so every Sherman recess amphibious tank is extremely precious and important.
Nikki's crazy actions shocked everyone.
Although all the remaining Japanese planes were shot down, the Allied Northern Assault Fleet suffered unprecedented heavy losses, such as the Miss Alice, the transport ship Mortande, the 10,000-ton oil tanker Lamondo, the escort aircraft carrier Cape of Good Hope, the Good Cruiser New York, the Sagittarius 6, Sagittarius 7, and the old Sagittarius destroyer were sunk and damaged.
Nimitz was also thoroughly enraged by the Japanese outlaw attack, and he instructed Turner to wipe out all Japanese planes on the ground at all costs in order to ensure the smooth landing.
Knocking the Japanese back to the Stone Age: