[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from yesterday.]

8 January. The 2d and 3d Battalions spent this day developing the outpost line of resistance farther. At 0424, a 2d Battalion outpost near Sel was attacked by ten or fifteen Japanese who disclosed their approach by springing a hand grenade booby trap fifty yards in front of our position. The outpost opened up with machine guns and 60mm mortars and repulsed the attack. At daylight a reconnaissance patrol found five dead Japanese and one seriously wounded. The enemy troops had carried rifles with bayonets fixed, and knee mortars and grenades. All their weapons were new and in excellent condition. They had no packs or canteens. A base camp was probably nearby.

Inland patrol reports were negative.

Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., The 32d Infantry Division in World War II