Note 46 — Chapter VIII · Southern Leyte Valley: Part Two

During the fighting, the regimental operations officer, hearing the heavy fire and not being able to communicate with the 3d Battalion headquarters, called Company K direct to ascertain if the Japanese had broken through the American lines. “Hell no,” was the reported reply, “we’re breaking through theirs and fighting for our bivouac.”46 During the night small infiltration parties of Japanese tried unsuccessfully to penetrate the regiment’s defenses, and sporadic artillery fire was received from the hills west of Dagami.