On the Okinawa battlefield, although it was difficult for the US forces to advance, they were still able to gain superiority during the day despite their superiority in sea and air and equipment...... But that's just daylight. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as it gets dark, the scene will make the American troops creepy, because in the darkness they don't know where the enemy is, so they feel that there are enemies everywhere.

In fact, there are enemies everywhere...... Many Japanese troops hid in the tunnels and could not retreat, waiting for the activities to come out at night, so it was possible that even the positions that the American troops had just occupied could be mixed with Japanese troops.

In addition, the Japanese army relied on its familiarity with the terrain to wage guerrilla warfare everywhere...... These guerrilla detachments were hidden among the people of Okinawa before Ushijima and in the northern mountains that he abandoned before the war, and most of the northern highlands were 1,000 to 1,500 feet, and the area around the mountains was divided by deep ravines, and there were complex terrain and steep cliffs everywhere, and such terrain could not be found by throwing a few thousand people into it.

They hide in the forest during the day, and at night they come out of the forest to attack the American troops in the Central Plains.

As for the southern area, the Japanese army used its control over the Okinawans to carry out a lot of anti-American propaganda before the war, and the Japanese army and its auxiliary forces all over the island, from the Japanese commander to every soldier, depicted such a scene for the residents of Okinawa: The US army is a ferocious invader who is inferior to beasts and captives, and the treatment of captured Japanese soldiers and civilians is even more brutal; Young and beautiful women will be brutally killed, others will be slaughtered en masse. There are even military personnel who vividly tell that when the inhabitants of the occupied islands were slaughtered, they were tied up en masse and crushed by tanks......

The reason why the Japanese army was able to paint such a picture in such a way is precisely because they did this to the Chinese people in China (note: most of the Japanese troops in the Battle of Okinawa were transferred from the Chinese battlefield, and many of them participated in the massacre, and even Ushijima himself was one of the decision-makers of the Nanjing Massacre).

As a result, the Japanese army could easily hide among the Okinawan people, and sometimes entire villages of Okinawan men were conscripted into the Japanese army to work as laborers and combined with the naval forces to form a "naval offensive force", and the Japanese army used to carry out guerrilla warfare replaced the positions of these male villagers.

(The so-called "naval offensive force" is because Okinawa has a Japanese naval base, and after the collapse of the Japanese Pacific Fleet, the logistics staff of the naval base are also "unemployed", and they are organized by Ushijima to form a unit together with the people of Okinawa.)

These Japanese troops, who were hidden among the people of Okinawa, gathered together at night to harass and attack the American troops, causing the American troops to panic all day long, and the Japanese troops chose an appropriate time to suddenly launch an attack on those American troops who were already in the dust......

In this way, a situation has repeatedly arisen on Okinawa: the positions are in the hands of the US military during the day, and the Japanese army takes them back at night, and in this tug-of-war back and forth, the number of US casualties is constantly increasing.

And that's just one aspect.

What's worse is that the U.S. Navy is also under strong pressure...... The pressure was mainly suicide attacks, with suicide attack planes and Sakura attack planes that had just been put into service from the Japanese mainland, and Huitian torpedoes and suicide motorboats from Okinawa...... This kind of suicide attack does not discriminate day and night, but also in the sky, on the surface of the water, and under the water.

As a result, the US Navy was sunk on the first day, two warships were damaged, and twelve warships were damaged...... The final loss of the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Okinawa was 33 ships sunk and 360 damaged.

Originally, these were normal phenomena, and there would inevitably be casualties in a war, and the same is true for the navy and the army.

But the problem was that Vice Admiral Turner, the irascible commander of the Navy, did not think so, believing that it was entirely due to the Army's ineffective operations...... Turner could not have imagined how the Army could have advanced so slowly after the U.S. forces had gained full naval and air superiority and landed successfully.

So a few days later, General Turner, who wanted to get out of the waters of Okinawa as soon as possible and be freed from various suicide attacks by the Japanese army, openly accused Buckner: "I don't know what the army is doing, the navy has provided them with sufficient fire support and supplies, but the army is still unwilling to take a step forward, perhaps, they are waiting for us to blow the road flatter with shells!" ”

Turner said this, and Buckner had an opinion, and he replied: "Fuck fire support, you just sit on the ship and shoot shells according to the coordinates, or press a button in the air to drop a couple of bombs...... If you go to the battlefield and take a look at it for yourself, you will see that your fire support has found nothing but to blow up the roads, and the Japanese are hiding in the tunnels. Every hill, every pillbox, every tunnel, and even every rock, the US army must go through many bloody battles before it can be captured! ”

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So the U.S. Army and Navy blamed each other and attacked each other...... The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and both sides will not let it, and this has led to serious problems in the coordination of the US army and navy.

The fierce fighting lasted for five days, and the American troops suffered a lot of casualties and consumed a lot of ammunition, and the battle line only advanced a few meters.

Eventually, Nimitz intervened, and he ordered Buckner to speed up the pace so that the navy could get out of the daunting Japanese suicide attack as soon as possible.

But Buckner replied: "General, the battle on Okinawa Island is the business of the army, and you don't need the navy to intervene, you can withdraw the navy at any time!" I believe that this task can be accomplished by the power of the Army alone! ”

If the navy withdraws, it means that the landed US troops will lose fire support and supplies, and they will only be dumped by the Japanese army in a few days.

Nimitz responded coldly: "Yes, this is a ground operation, but I lose one and a half warships a day, so if I can't make a breakthrough in five days, I will draw other troops!" ”

Nimitz's intransigence forced Buckner to bring up reserves to intensify the offensive against the Japanese line to the south.

After completing the adjustment, Buckner attacked the main Japanese defense line with four divisions to speed up the course of the operation...... In doing so, some breakthroughs were made, and the U.S. forces took several heights in succession and advanced the front by a kilometer.

But at this moment, an unexpected situation occurred...... General Buckner was killed by a Japanese shell.