Fighting for hill "A" and "B"
The 100th Btl attacked hill "A", the 2nd Btl attacked hill "B", but aftera day of severe fighting, the Nisei gained barely five hundred yards by the end of October 15.
On the morning of the October 16 , the 100th Btl, attacking on the left, had presumably cleared a roadblock. After the battalion had passed on, a few enemy diehards cut loose a blast of small arms fire on the engineer party that came forward to remove it causing five casualties. The engineers withdrew to cover, reorganized, and promptly launched an attack on the defenders, driving them out. They then proceeded with the day's work of blasting out the tangle of logs, wire, and mines that made the road impassable. This was indeed, a new and more devastating war than any of the US troops had previously experienced.
