Battle of angar

Battle of Angar: The Japanese army fought with 65,438+0,200 men and the American army with 265,438+0,000 men for one month. In the Pacific War in the late World War II, the United States fought several very tragic battles, especially in the Battle of Palau, which met with stubborn resistance from the Japanese. In the Battle of Angar Island, a branch of the Battle of Palau Islands, the US military occupied an overwhelming advantage in weapons, equipment and numbers. However, the Japanese army and 2 1200 people of the US army fought hard for a month, causing heavy casualties to the US army.

The whole activity lasted from1September 1944 17 to 654381October 65438. There are 1200 people on Angar island, including 14 1 brigade of the 59th Japanese Division. The main weapons are rifles, machine guns and Grenade launchers. /kloc-in the early morning of September, 2007, dozens of US warships first launched a fierce attack on the Japanese fleet, and then the US military began to land.

The Japanese army organized 1 infantry squadron and 2 infantry squadrons to fight back and found that more than 20,000 American troops landed. Looking around, the sea is full of American warships, landing ships and landing craft. American troops easily occupied the landing position that day. Tanks and carrier aircraft landed with the US military, which made the two infantry squadrons that attacked at night fail.

After that, two US infantry regiments pushed inland under the cover of more than 50 M4 Sherman tanks. The Japanese army has no resistance and can only rely on caves to stop them. In order to deal with the Japanese army in the cave, the American army used a lot of flamethrowers and tanks, but the tenacious Japanese army stopped it in various ways and the whole battle lasted for a month.

19441kloc-0/9 that night, the Japanese army, which lacked logistical supplies, had run out of ammunition and food. Finally, Captain Goto Akio called the last 100 soldiers to launch a suicide attack on the US military, and the battle of Angar Island was finally over. The dominant American army killed 260 people and was injured 1354 people.