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[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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first excerpt below is continued from January 4. The second from January 2.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring