Advancing from two landing beaches on opposite sides of the island, they were able to rapidly push inland.
32.
At the end of the first day, the Americans held their stretch of landing beaches, but little else.
33.
Before the landings Gallipoli was defended by several divisions, based on infantry battalion strong-points overlooking potential landing beaches.
34.
The commandos were responsible for their own planning and selected two landing beaches codenamed Orange one and two.
35.
For the first three weeks Coastal Base Section was largely occupied with the operation of the landing beaches.
36.
There was therefore no possibility of defence in depth, and the Japanese planned to counter-attack the landing beaches.
37.
This left the landing beaches covered only by sixteen escort carriers with about 450 aircraft from the 7th Fleet.
38.
Before landings, guerrillas harassed Japanese units, provided valuable intelligence about enemy dispositions and the relative suitability of landing beaches.
39.
Castro's air planes had blown up the invaders'ammunition ship . and his tanks were heading toward the landing beach.
40.
After their attack, the raiding force were to return to their landing beach to be picked up by submarine.
