Despite heavy casualties, the Japanese mounted two more attacks on consecutive nights. Not until the morning of 27 November were American troops able to take the offensive, counting at the time some 400 enemy dead outside of their perimeter and discovering over 100 more along with 29 abandoned machine guns as they advanced farther northwards [...]
- The World War II letters of Sgt. Abraham Gorenfeld, 17th Infantry, later an L.A. judge and court commissioner, written to his wife Clara from the Philippines and elsewhere. As featured in the ad campaign for HBO's The Pacific. Maintained by John & Will Gorenfeld.
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