When Lieutenant General Spruenz first met with Major General Julian Smith, the commander of the 2nd Land Warfare Division, the first thing they did was not to discuss important matters about amphibious landing training for the troops, but to first look at the LVT-1 amphibious personnel carrier used for landing operations, and the most famous amphibious landing ship (LST), large-scale personnel landing craft LCP, vehicle personnel landing craft LCVP, mechanized landing craft LCM, tank landing craft LCT-MK5 large infantry landing craft LCI, large-scale support landing craft LCS (L), medium-sized landing craft (LSM), LCPR personnel landing craft, LCT tank landing craft and new Ford GPA amphibious transport vehicle...

The new amphibious transport vehicle was put into use before September and October 1942 because it was one of the weapons and equipment that the US military was preparing to open a second battlefield in Europe.?

The Ford GPA amphibious Jeep is made of an extended Ford GPW 4×4 Jeep chassis with a watertight body. The car is 4.62 meters long and 1.63 meters wide. It uses a 2.2-liter 4-cylinder 8-valve gasoline engine that can output 60 horsepower at 3600 rpm. The maximum driving speed on water is 8 km/h. In addition, the output shaft can also drive the drainage pump at the bottom of the car. By using the steering wheel to deflect the front wheel and the rudder at the rear of the car body, the GPA can easily complete water steering.

However, the point of this GPA amphibious jeep is that the body is relatively clumsy and the speed is low when driving on land. When used on open water, the car is obviously small in size and lacks buoyancy. It is very easy to get into and sink under large wind and wave conditions. The occupants need to wear life jackets, so the US soldiers who have used them all jogly call it a "big bathtub".

However, for the Soviet army, who only had to cross many rivers and lakes and seized the bridgeheads on the river bank, it was a personnel transport vehicle with very good swimming ability.

It also allowed Su Jun to transform the GAZ?46 amphibious jeep (commonly known as the Gas 46) based on this messy personnel carrier. However, because the personnel carrier is too heavy, the mobility on land and water is inferior to that of Ford GPA amphibious jeep.

In addition to this amphibious personnel carrier, there is also the legendary Teadou American GMC DUKW-353 amphibious transport vehicle, which Lieutenant General Spruenz also went to see.

This American-made GMC DUKW-353 amphibious transport vehicle has been active in Normandy's Omaha Beach and Pacific Islands in its original history.

The vehicle has a certain amount of armor protection and machine gun fire, which shortens the time it takes for soldiers to be exposed to enemy fire, further improving the safety of infantry unloading. Some LVT amphibious landing vehicles are also equipped with short-barrel howitzers, becoming an emergency amphibious tank, further strengthening the firepower projection capability of assault landing.

In addition to these two personnel carriers, Lieutenant General Spruenz also visited the DD amphibious tanks improved by the M4 medium tank, as well as some other armored infantry fighting vehicles.

However, at this moment, Lieutenant General Spruenz didn't know that Chen Yanlong had already exchanged a large number of M113 armored vehicles to be used by himself and sold to the Japanese army for landing and combat.

These two armored vehicles have better performance than the M59 and M75 armored vehicles developed and produced by the US military in the 1950s, but the future M113A1 will soon replace the position of M113.

In addition, Chen Yanlong also exchanged another batch of M26 heavy tanks (nicknamed: Pershing Tank), M46 heavy tanks, M47 medium tanks, and M48 medium tanks to be sold to the Japanese army at any time to fight against the US army.

Of course, the M551 tank will not be exchanged for the time being, because he is still disgusted with and full of hatred for the Japanese army Chen Yanlong, because he is a Chinese. Although he is reborn as Hitler through time, his heart still comes from the soul of his previous life, so he will not make the Japanese army stronger. Now he is just using the Japanese army to fight against the US army and restrain the other side from investing more troops into the European battlefield.

Of course, he, from later generations, also knew very well that the United States and Japan would be together in the future, and were constantly harassing the peaceful rise of China. Therefore, it is also a very pleasant thing to have the opportunity to let these two future masters, the country's ghosts, defeat the spirit of the ghosts, greatly damage their vitality. And why not make money at this opportunity? Chen Yanlong was also thinking about whether he would sell the US military some advanced weapons and equipment to them to fight against the Japanese army.

Of course, the top leaders of Japan and the United States knew nothing about Chen Yanlong's ideas, and they would never even dream of them.

If they both countries knew about it, they might hate Chen Yanlong and this shit-making stick.

When Lieutenant General Spruins held a combat meeting with Major General Julian Smith, commander of the 2nd Marine Division, Captain Charles Moore, the first chief of staff of the Central Pacific Force, Rear Admiral Kelly Turner, Commander of the Central Pacific Amphibious Fleet, Robert Richardson Jr., Commander of the Pacific Theater Army, Holland Smith, Commander of the 5th Amphibious Fleet, and Rear Admiral Harry Hill, discussing how to deal with strategic, tactical, and logistics issues, and solutions to attack the Gilbert Islands, especially how to solve the problems of landing in combat to avoid Japanese artillery positions, sea, land and air support issues, as well as the logistics supply fleet of the US military, because the US military's logistics supply fleet had almost no radio communication equipment, and lacked crew members, especially crew members with combat experience.

Of course, there are logistics and escort issues such as transport ships, maintenance ships, supply ships, and oil tankers.

These various issues were discussed very fiercely, especially the problem of successfully landing on the Marine Corps' successful landing was even more a headache for them, especially when the Marine Corps' chief of staff Merritt Ederson, the commander of the 2nd Marine Division, about the large number of weapons, equipment, ammunition, food and drinking water, as well as tanks, and then the successful landing was even more a headache for them.

Because the LCVP of the vehicle and personnel landing craft they are using now, the draft is lower than the draft of the islands they are going to land, and it is easy to hit the reefs.

This question caused Rear Admiral Turner and the 5th Amphibious Army Commander Holland Smith to quarrel, because their resolutions were different.

Rear Admiral Turner is one of the famous amphibious warfare kings of the US military. He is energetic, shrewd and capable, and is particularly good at using new ideas, new equipment, new strategies and tactics. He is an old classmate who graduated from the same military academy with Lieutenant General Spruenz.

However, his personality is similar to that of the commander Holland Smith, who also has long experience in amphibious warfare training and exercises, and they are both irritable and like to yell and argue. Their personality is actually similar to MacArthur, Halsey, and Patton. They are both decisive, decisive and rude.

Regarding the difficulties raised by Chief of Staff Merritt Ederson about the Marine Corps' landing operations, one shouted that it could not be solved, which was a problem of nature, while the other refuted that the landing craft was not good, so he used human resources to transport all the heavy weapons and equipment that hindered the landing success...

Chief of Staff Merritt Ederson was embarrassed and at a loss, while Lieutenant General Spruins was covered in black lines and his mouth was twitching.

Because the combat meeting he held was just beginning and it was already so noisy. For him, he always insisted that unity is strength and should pay attention to details in his work. No matter how detailed he is, he cannot tolerate anyone destroying his teamwork.

For this reason, he tried hard to suppress his anger and said in a gentle tone: "Before the war, I feel that if we want to achieve the final victory, then I hope everyone can treat the questions and opinions raised with tolerance and understanding. Otherwise, before we start this battle, we will become a mess of sand, giving the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of it!"

"And I hope you don't forget that our Allies in the European battlefield are not smooth sailing in the battle against Germany. Moreover, the German army will buy and sell advanced weapons and equipment for the Japanese army at any time to fight our attack. So you all stay united and complete the landing operations of the Gilbert Islands, and contribute to our next attack target, the Marshall Islands!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Rear General Turner and the commander of the 5th Amphibious Army, Holland Smith, stopped the quarrel in a slightly embarrassed manner and continued to discuss the next combat meeting in a friendly manner.

When they were holding a combat meeting, Emperor Hirohito of Japan also convened Prime Minister Hideki Tojo Nagano Army Chief of Staff Sugi Sanyuan and other senior officials to hold a meeting of the imperial front.
Chapter completed!