Note 16 — Chapter VII · Southern Leyte Valley: Part One

At 1930 the Japanese centered a counterattack on Company A on the right flank of the 1st Battalion, 383d Infantry. A combined concentration from the 921st, 361st, and 363d Field Artillery Battalions repelled this assault.16 While Labiranan Hill was being secured, a force consisting of the 3d Platoon, Company C, the 1st Platoon, Company D, 763d Tank Battalion, the 1st Platoon, Cannon Company, and the battalion Antitank Platoon pushed along Highway 1, secured San Roque, and set up a roadblock.17 From the 23d to the 26th of October the 1st Battalion, 383d Infantry, patrolled the Labiranan Hill—San Roque area and protected the right flank of the 96th Division as the rest of the division slogged through swamps and rice paddies to the south.