Sorry for the delay, it WAS a hard week for the U.S.
In the Home front, the news of the dead GI Div. and Combat Engineer team had anger the pubulic opinion, the death toll is way to hign, and many were complaining and the war effort in Atlantic did not help either. The U.S. Governemnt are trouble.
This Week, The GI attack the bombarded postitions of the Paratrooper and overwhelming it while the Nippon was attack by a decimated Tank Battallion but too successfully overwhelming it with help of heavy bombardment and heavy air support.
The Marine Div. participated in Davao assault was rushed to Mendo and they too attacked, but worn down from the previous attack, they were not as effiecient and one Div was trapped by the reminant of 3 Paratrooper, by the time the reinforcement arrived, the battlefield was bloodied by two dead Japanese Paratroopers and a Marine Div was wipe out. The Navy retailate by bombarding other cities including Kapalang(I think that's how you spell it) , they destroyed a courthouse and the BB station there, also Torpedo planes sunk the DD and Transport opposite side of the island
North of the fleet two PT boat was sunk by destroeyers.
The bombing of Japanese continued but this time only barrack of Osaka was bombed.
