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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)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 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

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[Continued from yesterday.]

10 February. Enemy on the Sibog-Sindaman track have dug in and now have at least four pillboxes there. An estimated company of 150-200 Japanese are in the position.

A patrol returning came to the scene of the action where Captain Mooney and 5 men were killed. They found all six bodies. One man with a BAR had been leading, followed by the Captain and the rest of the patrol. The BAR-man evidently was wounded, for his body was found in a ravine about fifteen feet from the trail where he had crawled and died. The Captain and three others were killed instantly. There was evidence that one Sergeant had been wounded and then bayonetted to death.

Advance elements of the Australian 5th Division advancing northwest along the coast made contact with Michaelmas Force.

The arrival of the Australians in the Saidor area officially ended the Michaelmas operation.

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