Примеры использования Point cruz на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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The U.S. attack was halted on 23 November at a line just west of Point Cruz.
Defending the Point Cruz area were Japanese army troops from the 4th Infantry Regiment commanded by Nomasu Nakaguma.
Puller's battalion was ordered to proceed with the planned landing west of Point Cruz.
Along the coast near Point Cruz, however, the 7th Company from Tamura's battalion fiercely resisted the U.S. advance.
The Americans and Japanese remained facing each other along a line just west of Point Cruz for the next six weeks.
These fresh troops were quickly emplaced in the Point Cruz and Matanikau area and helped successfully resist further attacks by American forces on 10 and 18 November.
At the same time, two battalions from 2nd Marine Regiment, now committed to the offensive,advanced past the Point Cruz area.
Once aboard Monssen, Puller andthe destroyer led 10 landing craft towards Point Cruz and established communications with Kelley on the ridge by signal flag.
Three companies of Puller's battalion, under Major Otho Rogers, landed from nine landing craft just west of Point Cruz at 13:00.
The Matanikau River area included a peninsula called Point Cruz, the village of Kokumbona, and a series of ridges and ravines stretching inland from the coast.
Despite taking some casualties fromtheir own artillery fire, most of the Marines made it to the beach near Point Cruz by 16:30.
The 4th Infantry Regiment retreated back to positions west of the Matanikau and around the Point Cruz area while the 124th Infantry Regiment took up positions on the slopes of Mount Austen in the upper Matanikau Valley.
The 2/5 and the Whaling Group encountered very little resistance and reached andoccupied several ridges south of Point Cruz by early afternoon.
During the action three Marine companies were surrounded by Japanese forces near Point Cruz west of the Matanikau, took heavy losses, and barely escaped with assistance from the destroyer USS Monssen and landing craft manned by U.S. Coast Guard personnel.
Near evening the U.S. 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines reached the first ridge west of the Matanikau about 1 mi(1.6 km) from Point Cruz.
If the attacks were successful, the rest of Puller's battalion would land by boat west of Point Cruz to take the Japanese by surprise from the rear.
The operation was commanded by Merritt Edson andits goal was to capture Kokumbona, headquarters of the 17th Army, west of Point Cruz.
The American offensive began on 1 November and, after some difficulty,succeeded in destroying Japanese forces defending the Point Cruz area by 3 November, including rear echelon troops sent to reinforce Nakaguma's battered regiment.
At the same time, the 2nd Marines with the Whaling Group continued to push along the coast, reaching a point 3,500 yards(3,200 m)west of Point Cruz by nightfall.
Facing the Marines in the hills andravines south of Point Cruz were the remains of the Japanese 2nd Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Masao Maruyama, plus the 1st Battalion, 228th Infantry Regiment from the 38th Infantry Division under Major Kikuo Hayakawa.
What remained of the 4th Infantry Regiment under Colonel Nomasu Nakaguma began to gather openly near Point Cruz on the coast just west of the Matanikau.
They ordered 1/5 and3/5 to continue to press the Japanese along the coast the next day while 2/5 wheeled north to envelop their adversaries west and south of Point Cruz.
At the same time, four battalions of Marine artillery,totaling 40 howitzers, fired over 6,000 rounds into the area between Point Cruz and the Matanikau, causing heavy casualties in Nakaguma's infantry battalions as they tried to approach the Marine lines.
Reviewing the situation at the end of the day, Edson, along with Colonel Gerald Thomas andLieutenant Colonel Merrill Twining from Vandegrift's staff, decided to try to encircle the Japanese defenders around Point Cruz.
The Whaling Group and the 2nd Battalion 7th Marines-commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Herman H. Hanneken-reached the shoreline around Point Cruz and trapped large numbers of Japanese troops between themselves and the Matanikau River, where the Japanese took heavy losses from U.S. artillery and aircraft bombardment.
The 2nd Marine's 1st and 2nd Battalions, plus the 1st Battalion, 164th Infantry took up positionsabout 2,000 yards(1,829 m) west of Point Cruz with plans to hold in that location.
Between 08:00 and noon, five Marine companies from 2/5 and 3/5, using small arms, mortars, demolition charges, and direct and indirect artillery fire,completed the destruction of the Japanese pocket near Point Cruz.
On the morning of 2 November, with the Whaling Group covering their flank, the men of 2/5 marched north andreached the coast west of Point Cruz, completing the encirclement of the Japanese defenders.
In the engagement, seven battalions of U.S. Marine and Army troops under the overall command of Alexander Vandegrift and tactical command of Merritt A. Edson, following up on the U.S. victory in the Battle for Henderson Field, crossed the Matanikau River andattacked Japanese Army units between the river and Point Cruz, on the northern Guadalcanal coast.
The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about 3 miles(4.8 km)west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.