"Boom! Boom..."

The artillery positions of Betty, who provided front-line support for the US infantry, were fiercely bombarding the Japanese front-line positions not far ahead of them.

The first battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, which had just landed on Red 1 Beach, was also driving LVT-1 amphibious personnel carriers, using the 7.62mm caliber vehicle-mounted machine guns on their personnel carriers to desperately cooperate with the US military's artillery group to splash metal storm.

Amid the deafening sound of cannons and machine guns, one Japanese army after another was killed and injured, or shot into honeycomb corpses; they lay on their front line, cut off their breath and stained the earth with blood.

"Let the fire! Don't stop, let these Japanese see the powerful firepower of our United States of America and see if they dare to come and sneak attack us Pearl Harbor!"

"Blow these bastards to death and blow them all into pieces!"

Seeing his side getting more and more rapid and fiercely artillery fire covering the Japanese positions, Major Edward Bradt, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, stood on the LVT-1 amphibious personnel carrier and roared angrily.

Looking at that look, people thought the Japanese army killed his whole family, and they were so fierce that no one should be approached.

As for Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Kelly, the first battalion commander of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, who had successfully landed, he was in a low-key and silent manner, and he also needed to let the air liaison officers, sea liaison officers, and communication squads with no combat effectiveness, take five landing craft for subsequent landings, and there were tank landing crafts behind them, carrying M3A1 light tanks.

As for the landing craft as the vanguard, they were all elite infantry with guns and live ammunition, and they also set up a series of combat to prevent the counterattack of Japanese artillery and shore defense artillery.

At this time, the northern attack landing troops commanded by Major General Turner were already commanding his 54th special mixed fleet aircraft carrier group in the Majin Atoll area, including 8 transport ships, 5 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 11 aircraft carriers of various types in the northern aircraft carrier group for escort.

During the escort landing attack, the US military took off a total of 50 SBD-4 fearless bombers and escort attacks by 20 F-6F Hellcat fighters.

As for the fleet's shelling, the first, second and third waves were covered with fierce artillery fire by 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, and 9 destroyers.

In short, under the command of Major General Rakalf Smith, the commander of the 27th Infantry Division of the US Army, the troops that were conducting landing operations were fully supported by the US military's three-dimensional artillery fire. Therefore, after the large-scale pouring of naval and artillery shells by the US fleet, the entire Japanese front-line positions near the beach were bombed.

Although the Japanese soldiers killed were not as many as the US military had expected, there were still many Japanese soldiers killed by bombing.

Moreover, the thing that made the Japanese army guarding the island most anxious and desperate was that the Japanese navy was stationed in other places, and there was no way to arrive at Makin Atoll in a short time to conduct maritime support operations.

When the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army landed one after another and seized one beachhead after another, the troops of the 165th Regiment of the US Army also followed immediately and carried out rapid landing operations.

Soon the 2nd Battalion had already landed on the 'Nevil', the 'Andaya' transport ship, as well as a batch of new amphibious personnel carriers, and landed on the circular island of Kotab Island in Makin Atoll.

And the 4th platoon of the reconnaissance company of the 5th Amphibious Army was also with them for landing operations, and the commander was Lieutenant Harvey Vickers.

As soon as the landing was successful, Lieutenant Harvey Vickers immediately formed a team with Lieutenant Earl Montgomery, the 2nd Battalion commander of the 165th Regiment of the US Army, to conduct combat reconnaissance and deep inland operations.

Behind them is the 193rd Tank Battalion A Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 165th Regiment, which are using their 75mm artillery to open the way for their advance.

As long as there is a suspicious place, they will immediately launch a strafing fire to prevent the sudden attacks of Japanese officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the landing operation of the 165th Infantry Regiment of the US Army under the command of Lieutenant General Sprew was relatively smooth.

It is much better than the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, which is fighting fiercely with the Japanese frontline troops.

However, the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army had the US destroyer "Pelps" and the 127mm naval gun of the "McDonald" to provide close-range naval gun fire support.

There were also more than 50 LVT-1 amphibious personnel carriers, which were responsible for assault landing operations. Therefore, the First Battalion and Third Battalion of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the US Army completed the landing operations safely with one squad of casualties, and continued to advance towards the inland defense positions of the Japanese army, which were several times more people than them.

In other words, the only troops of the 27th Division of the US Army that successfully landed in Majin Atoll were the 105th Infantry Regiment and the 165th Infantry Regiment.

This officially kicked off the battle of the US military fighting against the Golden Atoll in November 1943. Whether the Japanese army could withstand the fierce and sudden attacks of the US military became an unknown.
Chapter completed!