Faced with the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and those "disc air defense capsules" arranged by the Japanese in the jungle, Lieutenant General Robert Gormley ruined a squadron's f6f-3 fighter jet.

But no one expected such a change. The sudden rise of "disc air defense capsule" turned the jungle near the beach into a hell in the air.

At this moment, these "disc air defense capsules" that rose into the air splashed denser ammunition on the sea surface. Fortunately, a large number of landing craft were approaching the shore at this time.

Groups of U.S. Marine soldiers who had not yet lost their lives rushed to the shore, and the ugly one was beaten into a charred jungle under the shells.

When facing air strikes, the jungle was safe, which should be from everyone's intuition. Marines didn't bother to form teams or observe carefully. They rushed into the jungle in groups, pounced on each person's crater, or under the big trees that were lodging in artillery fire.

At this time, it was faintly heard on the jungle where the leaves were obscured by the leaves, and the "disc air defense capsule" was constantly firing 12.7 mm bullets. Due to height issues, these annoying "disc air defense capsules" can be placed anywhere in the jungle.

Here, on some tall branches of charred woods, U.S. Marine soldiers saw those ropes fixed to the canopy, dragging the "disc air defense capsule".

"No wonder the navy's shelling did not affect them at all!"

"Play..."

Someone patted the soldier's helmet with his head raised.

"I said sir, you should focus on the ground, which is what those pilots need to worry about!"

As the frightened Marines found their shelter under the trunks of fallen trees and in the craters, the landing officers began to report to the fleet.

"We logged in successfully, but we suffered a lot of losses and were unable to attack. We requested a second wave of login..."

However, the "disc air defense capsules" in the sky do not seem to want to land those armored vehicles wearing "straw sandals" in landing, nor do they want to go back to the small landing craft.

More 12.7mm machine gun fires made the bullets like chisels, sank the small landing craft that was returning on the way back. More armored vehicles with slower speeds than landing crafts were also sank the seabed.

These scenes made the soldiers who had already climbed the beach and entered the jungle nervous.

"My God, without landing craft armored vehicles, how should we get out of here? Do we have to swim to those warships ourselves?"

From the beach where the Marine Corps is located, you can see the warship's bodies, which have become small due to distance. But soon, they got news from the surviving officers.

"It doesn't matter, we will have reinforcements soon because they plan to send a medium-sized landing craft to operate with the landing ship. I guess they will think we'll move forward under the cover of armored vehicles."

But before the second wave of landing, all unexpected situations made the landing operation re-arranged. Although the first wave of landing troops suffered huge losses, even 3/5 of the people survived.

But when Lieutenant General Robert Gormley put down the phone and ordered his subordinates with a pale face. When he continued to log in, no one suspected that it would be the result.

"Continue to land, we will get reinforcements. As long as we can seize the Japanese airport or open up our own airport, we will have more reinforcements!"

Obviously, Commander Douglas MacArthur was not surprised by the dilemma encountered by the login group here, so he refused the request to suspend login.

"Okay, we continue to log in, but this time we need to strengthen the artillery fire for landing cover. At the same time, we need the support of the Seventh Fleet's air warships. I think we can use bombs to open a way for our soldiers!"

Although Lieutenant General Robert Gormley said these words, his tone was no longer as confident as he was preparing to land. Obviously, he would not risk the possibility of being blamed by Douglas MacArthur to stop this seemingly hopeless battle.

When the news reached the command ship of Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey, he was roaring at the situation of a fighter squadron that had just been lost.

"Robert Gormley, this fool, he just ruined a whole squadron of fighters!"

Yes, when Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey saw the 36 fighter jets of an F6f-3 fighter jet squadron turn into falling fireballs or fragments in the air under the blow of those anti-aircraft guns and the "disc air defense capsule" in the air, Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey had almost unbearable anger in his heart.

"Yes, it's a pity that if they don't go, I'm afraid that the young Marines will not be on the shore. We just got the information that some of the Marines have already landed on the beach, but they can't move forward until they get assistance!"

Perhaps Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey had to agree with his war room, so he had to reply half a joke.

"Well, our Navy, the biggest mistake is to get the girls on the battlefield!"

"Discrimination against women is not a good military officer. Maybe you should consider whether to respond to the request of the lieutenant general and provide enough cover for them to log in!"

Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey was still very serious about this matter. He opened the map in front of him and identified the state of the enemy and us.

"Well, I'm pleased to see that our Hawkeye has identified the locations of those anti-aircraft guns!"

Perhaps Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey's view on women has aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, and even his communications officer sarcastically said.

"Yes, if you hadn't been thinking that the Navy shouldn't have sent women to the battlefield, you might have seen that picture long ago!"

"Well, I think we should use those guided bombs to provide more security for the young men! The mission is to move the air warships to the coast, and to strike the anti-aircraft artillery observed by Hawkeye during the second wave of landing. In addition, send Feidi-z to knock down all the balloons for me. But the action must be put until the bombardment of the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground is underway!"

With the orders of Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey, the air fleet approached the coast in the sky like a dark cloud. These changes made the landing troops on the sea cheer.

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Especially this time, the Marine Corps' 4-unit 25mm air defense gun was arranged on the ship. I believe that if you encounter the strafing of the air defense airship again, your resistance should be much greater.

The people in the large landing ships were arranged with numerous anti-aircraft guns on the relatively spacious deck of the landing ship. Although the 12.7 mm machine gun bullets should not pose any threat to these landing ships, excessively dense bullets will affect the landing of infantry.

The last wave of landing operations with heavy casualties was to send a complete Marine Corps ashore. However, the number of people ashore was quite small. Because this large-scale continuous transportation aimed to send the entire First Marine Division and the remaining troops ashore intact.

At this time, the Marine Corps, which had already arrived ashore, had also contacted the Marine Fleet with the help of the air fleet. When they landed, they would search deep into the jungle and use radio to call the air fleet to strike at any time.

In order to cooperate with the landing, Lieutenant General Robert Gormley prepared another fighter squadron. The difference is that these f6f-3 fighters will attack those "disc air defense capsules" at the maximum attack distance, and will no longer venture deep into the sky above Guadacanal.

The air fleet did not wait for action on the sea. After receiving the orders from Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey, they had begun to launch a large number of "paving stone TV guided bombs" loaded in the air combat fleet.

Why not talk about throwing? This is because the US military and Japan's TV-guided bombs are all bombs attacked using gliding methods similar to the "basket" delivery system of the Chinese Federation.

Compared with the German "dandelion guided bombs", although the gliding distance is slightly far, the power is generally not as good as that. Groups of small paving stone guided bombs leave the air warships, bounce off their wings like missiles in the air, and then activate their small engines and move towards the target quickly.

When they flew past the "disc air defense capsules", they were not attacked. Soon, a dull explosion sounded in the jungle on Guadacanal. The huge explosion uprooted the woods.

Not only were the gun positions of those anti-aircraft guns attacked, but some cables tied with "disc-shaped air defense capsules" were even cut off by flying shrapnel, and the "disc-shaped air defense capsules" that lost control rose into the sky.

With the continuous attacks of the Seventh Fleet's air warships, the next attack wave of the landing cluster on the sea surface began to approach the coast.

At this time, the Marine Corps who had already landed had to organize some patrols to advance into the depths of the jungle.
Chapter completed!