7 July 1945

 

This page is deliberately blank

D Company History "At 0730 the Co. with attch. MG moved appr. six miles S of Fabrica on logging train and stopped at Bn. CP. While stopped at the Bn CP at the Dian-Ay Bridge, a B-24 dropped a stick of bombs across the area and Sgt Keller, Cpl Burnett, and Pvts. Emery, Lewis, and Howe slightly wounded. The Co. moved about 5 mi S of The Bn CP and set up a perimeter. At 1300 the CO, Lt. Gifford, and the 1st squad of the 1st plt. left on a security patrol around the Co. perimeter. No enemy were contacted. At 1300 the 3d plt, Lt Watkins, moved west to find a possible crossing place on the Himaagan River. The patrol returned at, 1730 and reported a possible crossing SW---"
I believe the company is off on their dates here. The 2d Battalion Journal gives the bombing mishap as 13 July. The F Company History also gives it as 13 July. At this date the 2d Battalion the battalion was not gathered at Fabrica with the exception of E Company as far as I can determine. The F Company History states that the company readied to move to Fabrica 9 July. The 8 July entry of the Regimental History states that the 2d Battalion had moved to Fabrica, but I think they are wrong.