Note 64 — Chapter XV · Battle of the Ridges

In support of the advance of the 17th Infantry, the 49th Field Artillery Battalion fired 577 rounds of ammunition during the day. The fires “varied from knocking out machine guns to fire on mortars and on troops in the open.”64 The 17th Infantry had forced the 1st Battalion, 12th Independent Infantry Regiment, to start withdrawal to a hill farther north. At the same time, Japanese engineer and artillery units at Albuera “were erecting anti-landing obstacles along the beach and putting up antitank defenses.”65