Chapter 1411 Mutual offense and defense

"I'm sorry, Miss Danny, Commander Lauger has died for his country. He is the highest-ranking official in the entire US military who died for his country after World War II. He was also the first general to die in battle without seeing the enemy????" His subordinates were helpless.

He said, Commander Lauger can be said to be the pride of the U.S. Army, and he died for his country here. How can you explain this to the people in the country? This guy is a TV celebrity. It is absolutely impossible to hide it.

thing.

In the history of the US military, there are very few generals who were killed abroad. During the Chaoxian War, a lieutenant general died there, but he died in a car accident, not on the battlefield. This Lauger

Erke has set this precedent, and Danny also feels that there may be something fishy in the middle, but if Lauger dies like that, it will be troublesome. This is a real famous American general. If this guy dies

, there will never be reconciliation with the Skull and Bones Society.

"Okay, there is no worse news than this. Tell the energy group that we will fight side by side with them. What about the blockade of the Turkish Strait?" Danny held on to the wall to prevent himself from falling.

A blow is much better than the entire First Division being destroyed. I really have no strength at the moment. What I should think about now is what to do next. Although the Skull and Bones Society will teach me how to do it, that is

A general direction, the rest of the things still need to be decided by oneself, but one thing is for sure, the bridge forged this time is not that easy.

"Basically there is no problem. As long as we are willing, we can blockade Turkey. Even in the worst possible outcome, we can blockade the Russian fleet. After all, many Turks do not like Lao Maozi." This is also true.

, fought for so many years, even though it was decades ago, but no one is so ungrateful.

"Very good, the savings are not something we can decide. We should wait slowly for what the domestic side thinks. I hope they can send us reinforcements soon." After Danny finished speaking, he fell on the sofa.

Now, she is really too tired. She doesn't care. Even if the sky falls, she won't care. Now it is no longer within the scope of her responsibility. At this time, she very much hopes that the higher-ups in the country can judge him as derelict in his duties.

Then you can take yourself back directly.

The reaction of the Skull and Bones Society was also very strong. The US military has a powerful strategic air force, which is something that the energy group has always been jealous of. The spokesperson of the US Department of Defense did not explain why its first division appeared in that place.

He announced that several ace divisions under his command were going to take a large number of C130s directly to Sicily. It turns out that the largest country in the world still has their own abilities. Now even if they are tigers with lost teeth, they are still very powerful if they bark twice.

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The first one to react was the 1st Marine Division of the U.S. Marine Corps. The 1st Marine Division entered service as a division on February 1, 1941, but the regiment-level units that make up her have a longer history. The 1st Marine Division is

Made famous at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific.

As the earliest Marine Division formed by the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division has fought more than 200 times overseas and has made great contributions to the United States' external expansion. Currently, the 1st Marine Division serves as a standing force in maintaining the U.S. military's forward presence strategy and overseas operations.

It plays an important role in military intervention in affairs.

Although the 1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps was established on the eve of the Pacific War (February 1, 1941), the history of its regiments can be traced back to the early 20th century. Its oldest 1st Marine Regiment was established in March 1911.

It was formed in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and had served in the Caribbean during World War I. The second was the 5th Marine Regiment, which was formed in Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican War in 1914 and participated in 15 combat missions in World War I. The 7th Marine Regiment was formed in 1917

It was formed in Philadelphia in August and served in Cuba. It was disbanded soon after the war. The 11th Marine Regiment was established domestically in 1918 as a light artillery regiment. The above four regiment-level units became the famous 1st Marine Division in the future.

's team.

It can be said that the establishment of the 1st Marine Division by the U.S. Navy was to prepare for the Pacific War. When the 1st Marine Division first entered the Pacific battlefield, its performance won the praise of the entire anti-fascist alliance. The 1st Marine Division was

He rose to fame during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific.

Perhaps it is difficult for another unit to be like the 1st Marine Division, which was thrown into the most brutal battle in the entire World War II-the battle for Guadalcanal (hereinafter referred to as Guadalcanal) when it first entered the battlefield and achieved victory.

Victory. Since World War I, Guadalcanal has been a U.S. territory. It is located at the gateway to Australia and is close to Japan. For the Japanese army, the geographical location of this island is extremely important. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Guadalcanal was quickly

Japanese occupation.

At the end of June 1942, the Japanese army sent a construction force of 2,700 people to Guadalcanal to build an airport, and it was almost completed at the beginning of August at an astonishing speed. While the Japanese army was building the airport on Guadalcanal, the US military also formulated a plan code-named "Wangtai".

"South Pacific counterattack plan.

When Major General Alexander Vandergrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, received the order to gather troops to attack Guadalcanal, he couldn't help but worry. Major General Vandergrift admitted that he had "never heard of Guadalcanal"

"Name". Even if it was delayed by one week than the original plan, Operation "Lookout" was still a hastily formulated amphibious operation plan, and the exercises conducted on Guadalcanal failed again and again. At the last staff meeting, Van de Grie said

Rear Admiral Foote was furious, and he was determined to prepare for the attack in the last 48 hours. So, on the last day of July, 19 troop transports, escorted by 43 warships, launched.

The first amphibious assault of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Offensive began at midnight on August 6. The amphibious operations team will first occupy Tulagi Island on the back of Guadalcanal, and then use Tulagi Island as a springboard to launch an attack on Guadalcanal.

Japanese intelligence agencies completely failed to anticipate the impending U.S. attack on the Solomon Islands.

At 6:30 in the morning, the nine eight-inch guns of the heavy cruiser "Quincy" began firing. Around 7:00, the sea and air attacks reached a deafening intensity. At 8:00 in the morning, the landing craft full of soldiers formed a column and headed towards the scheduled

The ground sped away. Although the exercise was chaotic, the actual landing achieved satisfactory results. At 8:15, the first batch of marines landed on the red beach of Tulagi Island. The leading force only used one

In the morning, they took control of the only town on the island. Three days later, the 1st Marine Division completely occupied the island. None of the Japanese defenders stationed on the island surrendered. Almost all 2,000 Japanese soldiers died in the battle, and only 23 people died.

captive.

The initial landing on Guadalcanal, which is far opposite Tulagi Island, went very smoothly. Most of the Japanese troops on the island were engineering troops building the airport, and they had no weapons. After the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division landed,

All the Japanese engineers fled to the jungle behind the beach. The first two battalions of Marines successfully landed without firing a shot.

The Japanese base camp on Rabaul Island was shocked to the point that it was almost completely unable to operate after learning that the US military had suddenly captured Guadalcanal. It was not until August 19, more than ten days later, that the Japanese army organized the first ground counterattack. This

By that time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had completed the construction of the Guadalcanal Airport. When the Japanese military commander Osaka Ichiki led a landing force of 1,000 people to land on Guadalcanal with great dignity, what awaited them were the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division and the newly transported soldiers with high morale.

Tanks and other heavy equipment came ashore. The battle continued until dusk. At this time, Ichiki's troops had been driven back to the beach by the tanks of the Marine Division. The desperate Ichiki committed suicide by caesarean section next to a blood-stained sun flag.

The news of Ichimu's failure once again shocked the Japanese command headquarters on Rabaul Island. The Japanese Army Staff Headquarters quickly set the recovery of Guadalcanal as the first strategic goal, and then dispatched a second batch of 3,000 troops to Guadalcanal.

Groups of Japanese troops fell in front of the heavily fortified defensive positions of the Marines. The Japanese attack was completely defeated in only one day.

The continuous failures made the Japanese base camp furious, and the Japanese army immediately issued a fatal order to recapture Guadalcanal at all costs. After a week of continuous air raids, on October 23, General Harukichi Hyakutake of the 17th Army of the Japanese Army personally led his elite Sendai

The division, with 22,000 men, launched the final attack on Guadalcanal. However, due to the muddy roads on the island, the Japanese heavy artillery unit did not arrive at the scheduled position on time, and the entire attack plan was delayed for 24 hours. However, due to negligence, La Bao failed.

Our headquarters did not inform General Hyakutake Harukichi of the decision to postpone the attack for the second time. So Hyakutake's tanks launched the planned attack and advanced deep into Guadalcanal with the support of infantry on the night of October 23.

In order to defend against the attack of Japanese tanks, soldiers of the 1st Marine Division brought in 37mm anti-tank guns. The shells easily penetrated the fragile armor of the Japanese tanks. Without the cover of the tanks, the Japanese infantry had to perform repeated attacks.

A life-threatening charge.

Although the tank charge was thwarted, Momotake Haruyoshi did not give up. He planned the final attack. On October 24, General Vandergrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, received a report from local scouts.

There was a lot of gunfire along the Lunga River, two miles south of a high point in the airport area. The forward defensive positions of the 1st Marine Division were quickly put on alert.

At 9:30 p.m., when the Japanese army began to crawl toward the commanding heights, a Marine from the 1st Battalion of the U.S. Army guarding the foxhole quietly issued an alarm through the field phone: "Lieutenant Colonel, there are about three people between you and me.

Thousands of Japanese soldiers." Lieutenant Colonel Puller ordered the sentry not to fire. More than an hour later, Lieutenant Colonel Puller gave the order to open fire. The flash of artillery fire and the stream of bullets pierced the hot and humid night sky. The Japanese army's traditional frontal impact

The tactic once again demonstrated its power to harm one's own people. The Marines' machine guns swept through these soldiers with bayonets like cutting rice. According to subsequent statistics, a U.S. machine gunner fired a total of 26,000 rounds before dawn.

Some Japanese troops rushed into the American soldiers, and the two sides engaged in crazy hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, knives, gun butts and fists. However, this could not save the outcome of failure. As a result, more than 2,500 Japanese corpses were left on the battlefield.

The outcome of the battle for the island is a foregone conclusion.

In December, as follow-up troops continued to enter Guadalcanal, the 1st Marine Division, which had been fighting fiercely for four months, was finally ordered to withdraw from the battle. At this time, although the entire unit had lost 7,800 men due to injuries and illnesses,

But morale was still high. Throughout the Guadalcanal Campaign, the 1st Marine Division and its friendly forces wiped out more than 60,000 enemy troops, thus kicking off the strategic counteroffensive in the Pacific battlefield.

Throughout World War II, the 1st Marine Division participated in four major landing operations and suffered more than 20,000 casualties. It was the division with the most casualties among all marine forces. The 1st Marine Division also received the "desperate" reputation.

"The nickname.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the 1st Marine Division was one of the first units deployed to the front line in Kuwait, and played a huge role in the subsequent ground war. At 4 o'clock in the morning on February 24, 1991, Shiwa

Zikopf finally issued the attack order. The artillery of the multinational forces fired in unison, and the artillery shells poured down on the Iraqi positions like a torrential rain. A few minutes later, the Pentagon spokesman announced to the world: the "final decisive battle" of the Gulf War - the ground

The battle has begun.

The first to launch the attack was the 1st Marine Division of the Eastern Front Attack Group. Under the cover of 155mm howitzers, led by M-60 tanks and "Cobra" helicopters, they crossed the border in the dark and invaded Kuwait.

, nearly 10,000 Marine soldiers in armored personnel carriers and other vehicles followed up and quickly broke through the first and second lines of defense of the Iraqi army. At 5:30, the 2nd Marine Division on the left flank of the 1st Marine Division

Also launched an offensive. With the powerful firepower support of A-6 attack aircraft and "Cobra" helicopters, the division defeated the Iraqi 7th and 14th Infantry Divisions during the advance, penetrated 32 kilometers into Kuwait, and captured 8,000 Iraqi soldiers.

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On February 25, the multinational forces continued to advance. When the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions of the US Marine Corps, the main force of the East Group, advanced to a place code-named "Rock Sugar Plate" northwest of Kuwait City, they were encountered by the Iraqi 3rd Armored Division and

The resistance of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division. Thick dark clouds and billowing black smoke from oil wells ignited by the Iraqi army reduced visibility to only a few meters. The U.S. military used advanced optical sights to search for targets through layers of darkness, and the Iraqi army

The "black shadow" of the tank was firmly embedded in the sight, and the computer instantly calculated a series of shooting elements. The gunner fired decisively, causing the Iraqi tank to be hit by bullets one after another, and its body fragments flew into the sky accompanied by thick smoke and flames.

After destroying the Iraqi tank group, the M1A1 and M-60 tanks of the two US Marine divisions immediately rushed to the front of the opponent's infantry position, using high-speed machine guns and flamethrowers to kill the Iraqi troops hiding in buildings and trenches.

All were eliminated, and all the "rock candy dishes" were seized, and on the night of the 25th, they entered an area 16 kilometers away from Kuwait City.

On February 26, according to Schwarzkopf's order, the multinational forces accelerated their attack. Boomer's 1st Marine Expeditionary Force of the US Navy, the main force of the Eastern Group, advanced rapidly. The 2nd Marine Division "

With the cooperation of the "Tiger Brigade", they captured the heights of the Mutrah Pass to the west of Kuwait City, cut off the retreat route of the Iraqi army in urban Kuwait City, and controlled Highway 6 north of Kuwait City. The 1st Marine Division was in the southern suburbs of Kuwait City.

Near the international airport, they encountered a T-72 tank group of the 6th Armored Division of the Iraqi Army, and the two sides launched a fierce tank battle. At noon that day, under the fierce fire support of the USS Wisconsin battleship and Marine Corps Aviation A-10 attack aircraft

Next, the "Shepherd" light armored infantry battalion of the 1st Marine Division took the lead in rushing into the airport and cleared out the remaining Iraqi troops in the airport. For political considerations, Schwarzkopf ordered the 1st Marine Division to guard the airport.

Waiting for the Kuwaiti, Saudi, Egyptian and Syrian troops behind to advance into Kuwait City. At this point, the 1st Marine Division successfully completed its offensive mission in the Gulf War.

Eugene B. Sledge (e.b. Sledge, 1923-2001) and Robert Leckie, the authors of the original works of "The Battle of Okinawa" and "The Battle of Guadalcanal", were released in 2010.

1920-2001) both served in the 1st Marine Division. Sledge served as a mortar assistant in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, while Leckie served in H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.

The company served as a heavy machine gunner.

Not only that, even some very famous games have a lot to do with this unit. "Medal of Honor: Pacific Campaign" is a first-person shooting game released by EA in 2004. This game will take you on a journey

Board the ship of soldiers in the Pacific Theater of World War II. As Marine Private Tommy Conlin, you must survive the catastrophic attack on Pearl Harbor, then join your unit in the bloody battle against the Japanese Empire in the Pacific Theater. From Pearl Harbor

From the first combat mission after Hong Kong to various key battles, Medal of Honor: Pacific Campaign will allow PC players to experience what kind of fearless courage it takes to fight the Japanese Empire in a bloody battle in the Pacific Theater, allowing PC players to experience how much courage it takes.
To be continued...