After occupying Maleta, the Republican Army did not rush to capture Guadacanal, which was heavily defended by the US-Australia coalition, but chose Makira Island, which had weaker defense, as the attack target. The Republican Fleet and the US Fleet all their efforts.
In the process, the two sides had been fighting for sea and air around Makira Island for several months, but since 1944, the US military lost its air since the Republican Army built and put into use at three large military airports on Maleta Island.
The advantage, the scale of victory and loss has been tilted to the Republican side.
The initial problem of the United States was that there was a certain gap between the performance of the aircraft and the Republican Army, but after absorbing the British "Spray Flame" fighter technology, since the fall of 1943, the excellent P-51c fighter began to enter service, and the US military was in the fighter jet.
It has completely caught up with the level of the Republican Army in terms of performance.
After three years of participating in the war, the United States' war potential has been fully tapped. The strong industrial capacity has enabled Qimeinian to manufacture more than 28 million tons of ships of various types, more than 100,000 combat aircraft and more than 40,000 tanks.
It has exceeded the military production capacity of Republican China.
But the problem with the United States is that it has to take care of the four major battlefields of Britain, the Soviet Union, Africa and the Pacific. The Germans consumed nearly one-third of the United States' industrial capacity, while the Republican Army focused on the Pacific battlefield, and the African battlefield was just
The Italians' arms need some assistance.
Due to the influence of the "Europe first, then Asia" strategy, Americans only invested less than half of their strength in the Pacific battlefield, which is different from the Republican army investing most of their energy here. Therefore, on the battlefield, the US military can never reverse the passiveness.
The situation.
Both sides focused most of their energy on the battlefield in the southwest Pacific. The Republican Army invested 22 Army armies, 12 Marine Divisions, and 9 special mixed fleets composed of 18 aviation ships on this line, nearly 30,000
The total force of combat aircraft reached 3.6 million.
On the other hand, the US military has also invested 65 army divisions and 4 marine divisions on the Australian battlefield. Together with 20 divisions, the Navy has 22 aviation ships and more than 28,000 aircraft
The total combat aircraft has 2.7 million troops.
The gap between the two sides is in terms of soldiers and fighter performance. The US, Australia and Japan coalition forces are also equipped with about 15,000 early fighter jets with lagging performance. The performance of this ape aircraft is very different from that of the Republican Army, and it is difficult to complete the mission of seizing air supremacy on the battlefield.
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In the past four months, the Republican Army has not chosen to forcibly land on Guadacanal. Instead, it has been conducting small-scale landing tests. For the Marine Corps, Guadacanal’s complex tropical areas are
The islands formed their best amphibious combat training ground. Taking into account the overall strategy, the General Staff Department has not issued an order to launch a general offensive against the South Solomon Islands in order to restrain the main force of the US fleet in the Southwest Pacific region. The commander-in-chief of the Southwest Pacific Theater
General Chen Shiying has been using sea and air siege and small-scale landings to attack the US military in Guadalene to weaken the fighting spirit of the US military.
"Our reinforcements are on the way, Guadacanal is as solid as a rock, defended by tens of thousands of brave Marines. For months, we have repelled the enemy's fierce attacks again and again, and we will surely defend ourselves.
Australia's frontier position until the day when the counterattack began…”
"Damn it, tell MacArthur that if the naval reinforcements don't come up again, I will order surrender!" Vandergrift scolded him hatefully in the Allied Command of Guadald not far from Henderson Airport.
After the Chinese captured Maleta, he realized that the Allies could not defend Guadacana at all, but the General Staff wanted to build a line from Fiji to Tuvalu and New Caledonia.
The defense won the time and ordered Van der Grift to defend Guadacanal Island.
Van der Grift commanded the 1 and 4th Army Divisions. The 27th Army Division and the 15th Australian Division were trapped in Guadacanal Island, and held Guadacanal Island for nearly four months, enduring the Communist Army's respite.
Endless bombings, all of which earned the reputation of Marines and Van der Grift, making him a "American hero" and promoted to Lieutenant General of the Army.
Although MacArthur repeatedly boasted in newspapers that he would definitely be able to defend the Southern Solomon Islands. However, Van der Grift, who served as the commander-in-chief of the front, understood that the Republican army kept carrying out some small-scale landings on Guadalene, but it was unintentional.
After occupying the entire Gua Island, they wanted to use it to tie the American fleet to the battlefield in the southwest Pacific.
He has spoken this view countless times to General Nimitz and Golim. The two admirals basically agreed with him, but Washington still requires the Navy to stick to Guadacanal according to political needs.
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After Makira Island was captured by the Republican Army, Van der Grift realized that the Republican Army would land on Guadalam in the near future and began to demand evacuation. The trapping of Guadalam will only lead to the four coalition divisions on the dead end.
In the past few months, the Republican Army has only carried out air strikes on Guadalam and has not taken the initiative to carry out large-scale landing operations. It seems that the US military has maintained the front line. MacArthur, who is good at news propaganda, successfully defeated this battle.
The situation described the situation as "the attack of the Chinese team was frustrated". Under the strong publicity of American newspapers, the Marines defending Guadacanal Island became "American heroes" overnight.
Considering Vandergrift's identity, MacArthur agreed to the lieutenant general to retreat to Tuvalu, but he wanted to leave the 1st and 4th divisions to continue to resist. After all, a lieutenant general and the "American hero"
If captured by the Chinese, it will be a bit too great to deal with the American people.
"I will never leave my troops behind. If I cannot take them to retreat, I will be willing to fight together until the end. Even if I surrender, I will be with them!" Vandergrift would never agree to
He threw down his troops as shamelessly as MacArthur, but fled to Australia himself.
Since entering February, the two have been suing for the withdrawal issue.
Although the Marine Corps is a unit that "grandma doesn't love it, uncle doesn't love it", the Army believes that they belong to the Navy, and the Navy has prejudice against this group of "compatriots" who cannot fight at sea, but after all, this unit is still affiliated with
After carefully analyzing the reports in various aspects, Nimitz still felt that if he sticks to Guadalam, with the current strength of the Pacific Fleet, it would be a big disaster.
After repeated weighing, Nimitz crossed MacArthur, agreed to Van der Grift's request for retreat, and ordered the Third Fleet and the Southwest Pacific Fleet to fully assist in completing the retreat operation in Guadalene.
The South Solomon Islands are within the overlapping command of the Southwest Pacific War Zone commanded by the Pacific Fleet and MacArthur. After Nimitz gave his retreat mission, under the escort of the Halsey Fleet and Fletcher Fleet, Major General Turner commanded a team of
87 rapid transport ships modified from destroyers began to withdraw from Guadalone's defenders overnight.
The entire retreat was carried out at night. Due to the daytime air bombing, it was difficult for the US fleet to enter the sea area near the South Solomon Islands. However, before the Republican army completed its landing preparations, Van der Grift's four
Most of the divisions have been evacuated from Guadacana.
The difference between the concepts between the East and the West is reflected here. In the West, military officials can order a retreat without authorization when they think the situation is unfavorable, which preserves their strength and will not be sentenced to be sentenced to be sentenced to death.
At most, they will be removed from their posts without honor. In the East, generals who retreat without authorization are very likely to be executed, which is one of the reasons why the Easterners fought to the death regardless of their injuries.
In the East, it is normal for surrenders to treason, because the entire people will not accept a loser. In the eyes of Western literati, sometimes the loser is also a hero, and this is not the reason why their surrenders rarely treason, because
The people also regard them as heroes. For thousands of years, killing of the weak is one of the reasons for this situation. Since the Battle of Changping, the history of the East has recorded countless killings and surrenders, which has caused the Oriental people.
The mentality of rather than surrendering is that the result of putting down the weapon may be massacred, and the result is better than death in battle.
In short, the principle of preserving strength is more in line with the situation of modern warfare in Western military theory. After becoming a strong country, the people in China can better accept some news of the failure of the Republican army. Perhaps this is
The confidence that a strong country has, even if we fail, we will eventually win.