Note 11 — Chapter XVI · The Fall of Ormoc
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On 19 November, while it was still at sea, General Krueger had ordered the 77th Division to furnish immediately after landing a ship-unloading detail of about 1,200 men for the projected operation at Mindoro.11 At 1600 on 27 November the detail, a battalion of the 306th Infantry, boarded LCI’s at Tarragona Beach and departed for the staging area for the Mindoro operation.