Note 25 — Chapter XIII · The Mountain Barrier: Part Two

The 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry, under Colonel Clifford, operated west of Highway 2 on Kilay Ridge, behind the Japanese front lines. It “wrote a brilliant page in the history of the campaign”25 but, since its influence on the situation was not appreciated until later and since it affords an excellent example of a battalion fighting independently, the operation of “Clifford’s Battalion” will be discussed separately.