Note 39 — Chapter IX · Northern Leyte Valley: Part One

At a point 1,500 yards south of Pawing naval flyers from the Seventh Fleet strafed the enemy and, in co-operation with the artillery fire, successfully broke the back of the offensive. The enemy scattered into the rice paddies. Members of the 2d Battalion were then able to go down the road and mop up. More than 600 Japanese were killed during the engagement.39 Company G, which had borne the brunt of the attack, lost fourteen men killed and had twelve wounded.