Colonel Ichiki Was Told "Wait For Reinforcements You Fool" — He Attacked Anyway And Lost 800 Men
Автор: Untold War Archives
Загружено: 2025-12-15
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On August 21, 1942, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki rashly attacked the Marine perimeter at Tenaru River on Guadalcanal with only his "First Echelon" of 900 men, ignoring orders to wait for reinforcements after his force was detected. The overconfident night assault was shattered by concentrated Marine machine-gun and canister fire at the sandbar crossing, followed by a devastating dawn counterattack with light tanks that wiped out the trapped Japanese pocket. Ichiki's impetuous gamble cost Japan nearly 800 elite troops with only a handful of survivors, while Marine casualties were just 34 killed and 75 wounded—a catastrophic exchange ratio that demonstrated the fatal consequences of underestimating American defenses.
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