The Rise of the Third Reich

Just as the American landing craft on the sea encountered ruthless killings by the German Type 21 U-boats, dozens of large and small landing crafts were breaking through the fog in the early morning sea and landed on the beach near Georgetown with a bang. .

Before the landing craft could stop, the hatch on the bow of the boat was lowered into the knee-high seawater with a creaking sound, and all the U.S. officers and soldiers on board jumped into the water with their heads covered. The leader was an unshaven, tall U.S. Marine Corps captain with a helmet on his head, holding an M3A1 submachine gun (Ged submachine gun), carrying a large backpack, and shouting the slogan "God bless the United States!" A bit crazy and doesn't seem to care about death at all. However, the American soldiers who followed him into the water all looked nervous.

"Guys, come with me! Follow me to kill the Germans!"

Captain John Miller, commander of E Company of the 4th Amphibious Assault Battalion of the 4th Marine Division, is a veteran who participated in the bloody battle on Niihau Island. At that time, he led a platoon of Marines to the beach of Niihau Island... …then he and his men plunged into a web of fire woven by various Japanese ammunition. His platoon lost two-thirds of its men during the beach landing alone, and the 4th Amphibious Assault Battalion of the 4th Marine Division also lost more than half of its men in that day's battle.

And now, Captain John Miller has to lead a company of American youths to face the various ammunition of the German devils that are 10 times more terrifying than the Japanese!

As an American man who crawled out from the dead on Niihau Island, he had long believed that taking the lead in landing in Georgetown was a fatal mission. However, out of loyalty to the American motherland and belief in freedom and democracy, he gladly accepted the order and accepted the fatal mission.

Moreover, as early as the second day after he landed on Niihau Island, he regarded himself as a dead man!

So he is not afraid of death and is ready to die.

Before the beach landing began, the American landing formation was attacked in turn by German aircraft, torpedo boats and submarines, which also strengthened Captain Miller's confidence that he would die!

Even the landing ship USS Alansh, commander of the 4th Marine Division, Major General Clifton Katz, was sunk. How can the number of casualties in the subsequent landing operations be so low?

Therefore, the Marines who followed Captain Miller on the flood landing were all on tenterhooks in the morning fog, fearing the combined attack of various German firepowers and possibly encountering the terrifying E-50 tank— - Even the Japanese know about deploying T-34 tanks near the beach. Do their teachers the Germans also know about it? However, the Germans will definitely not use the old T-34, but the powerful E-50 tanks and Tiger tanks!

According to intelligence provided by the Soviets, the German E-50 tank can even withstand Soviet 122mm cannon fire!

In order to fight against this terrible tank, the U.S. Army urgently modified the M10A1 tank destroyer, installed a 90mm anti-aircraft gun on the M10A1 body, and produced the M36 tank destroyer. The Marine Corps' 4th Tank Battalion (belonging to the 4th Marine Division) was also equipped with a company of M36 tank destroyers (17 M36s) before entering Guyana.

However, these 17 precious M36 tank destroyers were all loaded on the Alainche dock landing ship, and have now sunk into the sea together with the ship.

In other words, the officers and soldiers of the 4th Marine Division who are currently rushing towards the Georgetown beach have no idea what weapons they can use to deal with the German E-50 tanks?

However, the landing operations of the 4th Marine Division will not be canceled because of the absence of the M36 tank destroyer. The battle to attack British Guiana was so important to the United States that it was simply a decisive battle related to the fate of the country.

Because British Guiana was the bridgehead for the German invasion of the Caribbean, Georgetown was less than 500 kilometers away from Trinidad. Most types of German shore-based aircraft can use Georgetown as a base to attack Trinidad. Georgetown is a huge and unsinkable aircraft carrier! As long as it is still in the hands of the Germans, the US military on Trinidad may lose its air superiority at any time!

Therefore, thousands of officers and soldiers of the 4th Marine Division, including Captain Miller, when the sky was dim and bright on August 24, regardless of the fact that their landing fleet had just been attacked by German aircraft, submarines and torpedo boats. Although they suffered heavy losses during the raid and lost many supplies and technical equipment, they still embarked on the journey to "liberate" British Guiana without hesitation.

Miller and his soldiers held their guns tightly and rushed towards the beach as hard as they could. But the knee-high seawater and soft tidal flats made it impossible for them to move faster. Everyone was covered in sweat in the blink of an eye, and the distance of several hundred meters to less than a thousand meters was less than half.

Captain Miller was still at the forefront. His heart was beating so fast that he was almost having a heart attack. Although he had already put his life and death at risk, he was still very nervous when death was right in front of him.

Especially since there had been no sound of gunfire on the beach until now, Captain Miller smelled a strong smell of danger.

You need to get closer before firing! Only the truly experienced elites can remain calm in front of the waves of enemies landing, place them at the ideal shooting distance, and then kill them with extremely precise firepower.

The German troops holding on to Georgetown Island are undoubtedly such elites!

However, the extremely accurate shooting that Captain Miller imagined never appeared. When he and more than a hundred officers and soldiers under his command finally rushed to the beach. The first thing you can see is the shanty towns on the edge of the beach that have been bombed into ruins by American aircraft and warships - they are the homes of local Indians and black fishermen in Guyana. Because it was too close to the beach, the US military believed that it might be hiding German firepower, so it was repeatedly bombed and shelled. Now there is only a pile of rotten wood and various miscellaneous rags. Of course, there are also many fragments of black people and Indians waiting to be rescued by American soldiers. Most of them are elderly people and children. There are not many young adults, because young adults They were all captured by the Germans and sent to work at the "Georgetown Island Fortress"...

"Captain, there don't seem to be any Germans here!" a sergeant who was following Captain Miller shouted to him. "They probably couldn't stand the bombardment and ran away, right?"

"Escape?" Captain Miller glanced at the sergeant beside him, "They haven't really escaped once in this war!"

"But there are really no Germans here. If there were... they should have opened fire."

Captain Miller looked around again. More and more American soldiers were rushing onto the beach, and several amphibious tanks modified from M4 tanks were also rushing onto the beach. However, the direction of downtown Georgetown was still there. There was silence.

"Well, there may be no Germans here, but they will definitely fire at us somewhere else!" Captain Miller stated his judgment very definitely, and then faced the company's flag bearer and the person responsible for signal liaison. The sergeant yelled: "Find a higher place and put up our stars and stripes to let the damn Germans know that the United States is ashore!"

Then fire off a signal flare to tell the sea: the landing was successful, the landing site is safe, and the beaches of Georgetown are under the control of the US military! "

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"Look, there are three red flares in a row!"

"That's a sign of successful login!"

"The Star-Spangled Banner, it seems someone else put up the Star-Spangled Banner, right on the beach in Georgetown!"

"God bless America, we win!"

"Victory!"

At sea, oh, there should be a cheering sound in the sea, which cheered up the somewhat groggy U.S. Marine Corps Major General Clifton Katz again.

The U.S. Marine Corps major general is now wearing a life jacket, and together with hundreds of American soldiers who jumped into the sea from the USS Ashland dock landing ship, they are soaking in the water less than 8 kilometers away from the Georgetown beach with the most desperate feelings. The mood is waiting for rescue.

His mood is completely understandable. The landing in Georgetown had just begun when his 4th Marine Division was severely beaten by several German U-boats (six Type 21 U-boats) at sea. There are 24 landing ships of various types that have either sunk or run aground, accounting for almost 20% of all the landing ships occupied by the 4th Marine Division. Moreover, these 24 landing ships are all large ships, including 3 valuable dock landing ships. and 12 tank landing ships (including various support ships modified from tank landing ships).

At least 4,000 US officers and soldiers have either drowned or are soaked in seawater waiting to drown. One of them is Major General Katz himself, the commander of the 4th Marine Division!

They had already suffered heavy losses before landing, and also lost the division headquarters (the division headquarters and Major General Katz were both on the Ashland), a key tank destroyer company, and a large amount of heavy equipment. Therefore, Major General Katz, who fought in the Second Battle of the Hawaiian Islands, had just concluded that the landing operation had no hope of success - his troops had been defeated, and Operation God of Liberty had failed.

But just when he felt very desperate, the Stars and Stripes were raised on the beach of Georgetown.

Major General Katz, who had regained some energy, quickly raised the telescope that had been soaked in the water for an unknown amount of time and looked toward the beach. Sure enough, one, no, several Stars and Stripes appeared on the beach.

Moreover, there were no signs of fighting on the beach, which showed that the landing was successful. The beach in Georgetown was already under the firm control of the US landing force.

Major General Katz thought to himself: I actually fought and won a battle. It’s incredible that I can win like this!