Each of us should know that some countries launched the Second World War for the sake of interests, during which there were too many battles of all sizes, and each battle was a countless number of casualties, which was very tragic. At the beginning of World War II, the United States did not participate, and the United States generally did not intervene without touching the interests of americans. But at this time, the United States cut off Japan's oil. Because Japan's land area is very small, there are not many materials, which has dealt a great blow to the invading Japan. At this time, Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the United States subsequently launched a war against Japan. When it comes to the worst war in the Pacific, it must be the Battle of Saipan, which many people may not know, after all, the island is too small. But it is such a small island that experienced a catastrophe during World War II. In this battle, the United States fired countless shells, and after this battle, almost 20,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians jumped off a cliff to commit suicide, and because of this incident, we can see that the Japanese are also very cruel to themselves. What happened in this battle that caused heavy losses to the Japanese army, and why did anyone choose to jump off a cliff and commit suicide after the war?
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The "arrogance" of the Japanese
At the beginning of World War II, the United States did not intervene in this war, has been muffled to make a fortune, and the US military force at that time was also very strong, as long as no one touched their interests, the Americans will not easily intervene. Moreover, the United States has been using its scientific and technological advantages to create a particularly large number of weapons and advanced weapons. The countries of the time were also in great need of these equipment. This includes Japan, which, if you look at it this way, is still a cooperative relationship with the United States.
The United States is actually very ambitious, they have been earning war money during World War II, bent on becoming the hegemon of the world. Of course, the United States is not the only one who has these ideas. At that time, Japan also had such an idea, and when Japan invaded Asia, it also occupied a lot of land, and the tactical strategy implemented by Japan at that time was to feed the war with war, and it was also thinking of preparing for attacking more countries in the future. When Japan invaded Asian countries, it immediately touched the interests of the United States. This made the United States very unhappy, and the United States immediately cut off Japan's strategic materials, which made it impossible for Japan to carry out further aggression. But how could Japan willingly give up at that time, so Japan thought of a way, that is, to gain control of the Pacific, so that it could solve Japan's current troubles, so in order to force the United States to make concessions, Japan looked at pearl harbor in the United States.
U.S. Army
So in 1941, the Japanese army began a plan to attack Pearl Harbor. At that time, the military strength of the United States was one of the best. Although their army is not as strong as the United States, they believe that their naval strength is far greater than that of the United States Navy. In order for its invasion plan to proceed smoothly, Japan sneaked into Pearl Harbor in the United States, and the Pacific War broke out. This japanese sneak attack plan completely angered the United States, and Japan also successfully pulled the United States into World War II. Even after Japan successfully attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, the United States did not hesitate to declare war on Japan.
Saipan importance
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States when it was looking for death, and of course, his practice also ushered in the crazy suppression of the United States. At this time, the United States began to gather troops, and also formulated a battle plan to attack Japan.
The first step for the U.S. military was to occupy the Mariana Islands, of which Saipan was the most important island and was known to the Japanese as the Absolute Defense Circle, the importance of Saipan can be seen here.
bomber
Although Saipan is only 120 square kilometers in size, its geographical location is particularly good, it can be said that it is the throat of the Pacific Ocean, and it has been a very important location here since ancient times. Moreover, the island is also an important hub of Japan and has an immeasurable position in the military. And this small island, the terrain is very complex, there are many caves in the mountain, it is very easy to build fortifications, here is simply easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The island was originally Spanish, but in a very tragic war, the United States unreasonably snatched an island from them, and at that time the United States was very powerful, and it did not look up to the remaining islands, and then Spain also left, and germany saw the island at that time, so it bought it for him. We all know that in the First World War, Germany was defeated, so Japan snatched it from Germany. Japan did not abandon the island, built a large number of defensive measures on the island, and at great expense, built three airfields on the island, and arranged the largest number of troops on the island.
Ever since Japan had acted at this time, it would mean that war was about to break out. Under the analysis, the United States also looks at this island correctly, as long as it can occupy this island, then everything is easy to say. The bombers of the American army are too powerful, and the speed of this bomber is unmatched by other countries, as long as it appears above Japan, it means that Japan will suffer, and it can also cut off the lifeblood of the Japanese army.
United States Marine Corps
At that time, this place was really too important to the Japanese army, and there could be no accidents, knowing that if the United States seized it here, the entire territory of Japan would be very dangerous, so that the American army would attack wherever it wanted, and the entire defense of the Japanese army would fall into a very passive situation, and failure was sooner or later. Therefore, the Japanese headquarters also ordered that Saipan must be held to the island and not let it have any problems.
Soon, the Japanese army gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers on Saipan, including the Japanese Army's Forty-third Division, which had a lot of tanks and aircraft. The commander of the Taiping Fleet of the Japanese army never bothered to pay attention to the battle on the ground, which was really irresponsible, and when the battle began, the defense of the army was taken care of by a very powerful person. The U.S. forces responsible for attacking Saipan were under smith's command, and the U.S. army first dispatched 70,000 troops. There were many ships for transport and support, with a maximum of one hundred and ten land ships, and there were a particularly large number of aircraft carriers, which many countries did not have at this time, and this lineup was already very luxurious at that time.
Immediately after this, the U.S. army launched a particularly fierce bombardment of the Japanese army. On this occasion, more than two thousand aircraft were dispatched, and the U.S. army did not hesitate to fire the most shells ever fired at the Japanese army, which destroyed most of the Japanese army's fortifications on Saipan until the United States, believing that there was nothing to bomb, returned to its base.
Japanese soldiers
After the repeated heavy bombardments by the U.S. army, the U.S. army already believed that the Japanese army had no ability to resist at this time, so the U.S. army began to order the landing from the Xi'an area of Saipan. Just before this, the United States was still a little relieved, it seems that the vigilance of the Americans is still high, the United States thought of blowing up the defense of the Japanese army, so that the United States can firmly grasp the air supremacy.
At this time, the U.S. army launched a fire suppression on Saipan, and the U.S. army's artillery fire seemed to be unable to finish, so many shells were smashed into it at the same time, and the U.S. army really had so many shells at that time. At the time of this bombing, the U.S. army also pulled out something that no country had, and as soon as this secret weapon of the United States was thrown out, the Japanese army only cried out all over the field, and there were corpses of Japanese troops everywhere, and the strangest thing was that none of the corpses were Americans. The artillery fire of the American army was even more fierce at this time. Soon, the Japanese prepared something on this place, and there was nothing left. At this time, the minesweepers of the American army were not idle, and began to clear mines for the landing forces, and after half an hour of bombardment by the American troops, eight thousand American soldiers, under the cover of tanks, began to slowly approach the beachhead.
U.S. aircraft carriers
Only then did the Japanese army react and begin their counterattack. After this, I thought that the United States could successfully defeat Japan, but what I did not expect was that the American army attacked very badly. The Japanese army also launched a fierce blockade, the U.S. army will not look at the situation, has always wanted to advance, of course, the U.S. army paid a great price to move forward a small step. As a result, this attack cost the American troops more than two thousand people. The U.S. army was very unwilling, so they sent out tank troops, Japan saw the American tanks, but also not willing to show weakness, the Japanese army also sent their tank troops, they are a little blind arrogant, they want to beat the American soldiers fiercely, but the U.S. army tanks are too powerful, the Japanese tanks in front of these tanks in front of the United States are like his children, and in the end so many good things of the Japanese army have been destroyed almost, the Japanese did not expect this result, After the Japanese army had lost so many people, they had to retreat, and in this regard the Japanese army retreated very quickly.
After this, the Japanese army was not willing to accept the first defeat, and soon ordered the organization of a death squad of seven hundred people. They planned to ride on the darkness at night, which would give the U.S. army a blow that day, but what the Japanese never expected was that the U.S. army was rich and had long been prepared, and the U.S. army fired a special number of illuminating items into the sky, and the sky that was originally night instantly turned into day, and so many Japanese soldiers suddenly let the U.S. army see it, and the U.S. army also quickly and neatly annihilated all the seven hundred death squads. At this time, the Japanese army immediately understood that their superiority was gone, and began to retreat rapidly.
Battle of Saipan
At this time, the American army began to send troops to the island in a steady stream, and it has been advancing to the positions where the Japanese troops were stationed. At this time, the Japanese army could only watch the American army attack them, and they could only be so passive. At this time, the Japanese army was ready to fight to the death with the American army, either he died or I died. The Japanese army also quickly assembled dozens of aircraft carriers and quickly launched a maritime operation. At this time, the Japanese army must have thought that the American army was just pretending. The U.S. military had many aircraft carriers, which crushed the Japanese army in numbers. Moreover, the pilots of the Japanese troops had just joined in, and the result was a fiasco for Japan, and the Japanese army lost so many things at once, which made the people above regret it very much, and even Japan's most advanced things were destroyed, and Japan could not afford such a price. On the U.S. military side, only two aircraft carriers were damaged and could be used. In addition, the Japanese aircraft also suffered very heavy losses, and most of the pilots died here. The Japanese military could not afford such a price. They lost the battle, and the Americans reacted quickly, knowing that they had no way to support them, and that the soldiers on Saipan would lose.
At this time, the Japanese army began to think of a way, they arranged the troops of all the nearby islands to Saipan, but the American army was very clever, and their means were also very hateful, and immediately eliminated them, and at this time it became a small island of isolation and helplessness.
The U.S. forces are too strong
The Speed of the American Army landing on the island was very fast, and as long as the Americans were allowed to land on the island, the Japanese army had already lost more than half in this battle. And the United States also had the most advanced bomber in the world at that time, carrying a minimum of nine tons of aviation weapons. Once so many bombers flew over the Japanese state, it would become a nightmare for Japan for life. Of course, after the U.S. army was occupying Saipan, it showed no mercy to Japan, and really bombed Japanese territory in turn.
Soldiers who died
After the American troops officially landed on the island, the Japanese army did not dare to stop it at all. After a few days, the U.S. army had been attacking the Japanese army, and the American army had won every battle along the way, and soon took the beach. On the other hand, the American army also quickly took the airfield on the island, and along the way, the Japanese army did not resist. At this time at the airport, you can't see a single Japanese soldier at all, all of them are scrapped aircraft of the Japanese army. Because at this time, the Japanese army had retreated far away, and the Japanese army was also very generous, directly abandoning the airfield, at this time the Japanese army wanted to fight a protracted war with the American army.
One night, the Japanese once again planned a sneak attack, and they dispatched thirteen ships from the side of Saipan, with more than a thousand soldiers hidden in them, and the Japanese wanted to use this opportunity to counterattack the Landing American troops. It can be said that the luck of the Japanese army was so bad that even God did not help them, and this force actually encountered the ships of the American army in the middle of the road. The American army saw the Japanese ship and did not hesitate to launch a fierce attack, so that this Japanese army was completely annihilated, and the plan was once again frustrated. After so many defeats, the commanders of the Japanese army also felt the gap between them and the American army, and it was more difficult to counterattack the American army than to ascend to the sky, and the Japanese army could only change its strategy, and they soon established a lot of fortifications at the highest point, and also used the defensive network.
Soon, the weapons of the American army will be pointed at the Japanese. The Japanese army was reduced to a very small size, and the American army was very brave and quickly occupied the command post of the Japanese army. At this time, the Japanese also very much wanted to support the Saipan army. But the U.S. military sealed Saipan too tightly, and the Japanese army could not get to the island at all. At this time, the American army no longer wanted to delay, and they quickly gathered all their forces on Saipan and began a final attack on the Japanese army. The next morning, the Speed of the Japanese Army had always been very fast, and it could get so many things in a little bit of time, and the Japanese Army had been doing a good job in this regard. Suddenly, Saipan was full of artillery fire, and even the ground was shaking. With so much artillery support, two Marine divisions of the U.S. Army took the lead in attacking, and it wasn't until the evening that the U.S. army attacked under Tower D'Aocho.
American warplanes
By the twenty-third day, the Twenty-seventh Division of the United States Army had joined the battle, and there were three armies. These three units attacked the Japanese army from the east, south, and west. But in the evening, one of the troops lost their way on the night march, which resulted in no attack on Japan that night. Because of the late arrival of this unit, it directly affected the entire war situation.
And those two naval units had already broken through the Japanese army's defensive line and directly entered the depths of the Japanese army, and the whole front had become very strange, the two sides had broken through, but there was no middle, which caused the flanks of the naval forces on both sides to explode, and they did not dare to continue to advance, and could only stand by.
The U.S. Navy and the Army have always had contradictions. The U.S. Marine Corps is very contemptuous of the Army, because the Marine Corps is a special unit established for landing operations, and they are selected through very strict conditions, and this is not the end of it, they have also been trained by others that they cannot stand, and their will to fight is really very strong, it is the kind that others cannot imagine, and there is no unit in the United States that is stronger than them.
Especially in other wars, the U.S. Marine Corps performed very well, they created too many "myths." Looking at the US Army, in normal training, they also like to use artillery to support. When they encounter any troops, they will not fight back as bravely as other troops, but will call for artillery support first each time, or just avoid the Japanese army. Sometimes only a japanese point of fire was needed to stop the advance of a battalion of American troops.
Japanese residents of Saipan
It is precisely because of this that General Smith of the United States is very grumpy, and after consultation, it is also decided to remove the former division commander. The Saipan combat commander was also replaced by another general, but what he never expected was that this made the U.S. Army feel very unhappy, and even dared to contradict such a strong army and navy, it was really too powerful, at this time the leadership of the U.S. army must stand up, under his momentum, the situation slowly improved, at this time the U.S. Army also underwent very big changes, began to become brave, the war situation slowly improved.
Subsequently, with the close cooperation of the U.S. Army and the two Marines, and after several days of fierce combat, the U.S. army also captured this position in Japan, and the U.S. army did not rest, and was still attacking Japan.
How can the shells of the US army be so strong, the pressure on Japan is getting bigger and bigger, and it can only lead a little bit of troops to run to no one's place, and the Japanese soldiers should regret it now. They wanted to give the U.S. military a final blow, but in the eyes of the U.S. military, the Japanese were now a joke.
Isolated Japanese troops
After this, the Japanese army finally realized the gap between him and the enemy, but by this time it was too late to react. At this time, the Japanese army should have been frightened by the American army. After many days, the American army also very easily took the position of the Japanese army, compressing all the Japanese troops into a small corner in the northeast, the Japanese army thought that their defense line was very strong, but what they did not expect was that their defense line was easily breached by the American army, and even the American army had not yet shown its full strength, and now the losses of the Japanese army were unimaginable.
American submarines
By now, the commanders of the Japanese army also knew that they had failed, and at this time they sent a final telegram to their base camp. At this time, the Japanese army still had more than five thousand soldiers, and the Japanese commanders gathered them all together to prepare for their deadly attack, which also made people call it a madman's practice. Just after the end of today, the commander of the Japanese army can only choose to commit suicide, and his men can only choose to commit suicide with a pistol when they see the leader commit suicide.
After a few days of fighting, the American officers were also very clever, and the first time they thought of Japan's frequent combat method - suicide attacks, they specifically told them that they must strengthen their precautions and strictly guard against the impact of those Japanese troops. But the U.S. army is now very inflated, has looked down on the soldiers of the Japanese army, and as a result, at this time the Japanese army is crazy, they are like dead people, crazy suppression of the American army, no one in the whole army reacted.
As if unable to see the shooting of the American army, the Japanese army ran directly into the American army with the weapon, and a battalion of the American army quickly collapsed under the fatal impact of the Japanese army. Even the U.S. troops were shelled by their own men, which caused heavy losses to the U.S. troops. The battle also lasted for a long time, and the American army still paid the price of two thousand people, which completely annihilated the Japanese army.
U.S. Fleet
By this time, the Japanese army's defense on Saipan had completely collapsed, and it was only a matter of time before it was destroyed. But what the U.S. military did not expect anyway was that under such circumstances, the battle was not over. After the large-scale fighting of the Japanese army, the residents of Saipan did not know what was happening and actually began to commit suicide. It turned out that these ordinary people had brainwashed the Japanese Empire, they thought that surrender was a very shameful thing, and at the same time they felt that if they did not commit suicide, they would be tortured by the American army, so they all jumped on the cliffs on Saipan, one by one, including children, even the old people.
Even at this time, the U.S. army made a stop, saying that it would not slaughter them, only give them food, but this did not stop the Japanese from committing suicide, and they were all buried in the sea.
After the American occupation of Saipan, the United States at that time was really too ruthless, they had to bomb Japan every day, which made the Japanese people live in hell every day, which also accelerated the speed of Japan's surrender. I think Japan was not tough with the United States at that time, or it could hold out for a while.
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