SECRET                              5 MAR 45

FROM:       5TH MAR DIV
TO  :       VAC                     INFO: 3D AND 4TH MAR DIVS  X  EXTROPAC

DISPATCH SUMMARY FOR THE PERIOD 041700 TO 051700 FOLLOWS X THE NIGHT WAS
GENERALLY QUIET ALONG THE ENTIRE FRONT WITH MINOR INFILTRATION ATTEMPTS
IN

ALL SECTORS X NO MASS OF INFANTRY WAS EMPLOYED BY THE JAPS X ENEMY ARTY
THAT HAD BEEN SILENT ALL DAY YESTERDAY WAS USED FOR SPORADIC SHELLING
DURING THE

NIGHT MIXED WITH LIGHT MORTAR FIRE IT IS BELIEVED THIS ARTY FIRE ORIGINATED
FROM THE FRONT OF EITHER THE 3D OR 4TH DIVISION X IN ONE CASE IN CT 28

Z OF A JAP INFILTRATORS WORKED AS A TEAM WITH ONE MAN EXPOSING HIMSELF
TO FIRE AFTER WHICH HIS PARTNER HEAVED HAND GRENADES INTO MARINE
FOXHOLES X

TODAY WAS SPENT IN MOPPING UP REAR AREAS CONSOLIDATING FRONT LINES AND
REORGANIZING X PREPARATIONS WERE MADE FOR THE ATTACK ON 6 MARCH X BOTH
SIDES

REMAINING IN POSITION THROUGHOUT THE DAY X SNIPERS WERE ACTIVE X FEW
ENEMY WERE SEEN AT ANY TIME AS MOST OF THE JAP FIRE CAME FROM CAVE
POSITIONS X

THE VOLUME OF FIRE RECEIVED PARTICULARLY ON THE FRONT OF CT 26 INDICATES A
CONSIDERABLE MASS OF INFANTRY ON THEIR FRONT X ARTY DELIVERED HARASSING
AND

CALL FOR FIRS THROUGHOUT THE DAY X AIR OBSERVERS PINPOINTING THE TARGETS
X TANKS ASSISTED THE FRONT LINE UNITS IN MOPPING UP X THERE ARE 37 TANKS

OPERATIONAL OF WHICH 3 ARE FLAME THROWERS X AS OF 1700 OUR FRONT LINES
ARE FROM 233V NORTHWEST TO 233V SOUTHEAST TO 233W SOUTH CENTER TO 233X
SOUTH

CENTER TO 234U SOUTH CENTER TO 234V CENTER TO 234W SOUTH CENTER TO 234X
CENTER TO 234X NORTHEAST TO 234Y NORTH TO 235U NORTH CENTER TO 235V
CENTER

TO 235W CENTER TO 235W SOUTHEAST X OUR CASUALTIES AS OF 1500 X KIA
 55 OFF 918 ENL X WIA 178 OFF 3504 ENL X MIA 2 OFF 316 ENL X SKEVAC 10 OFF 294
ENL X

TOTAL 245 OFF 5032 ENL X TOTAL INTERRED IN DIV CEMETERY 27 OFF 883 ENL 12
UNIDENTIFIED X TO BE INTERRED 22 X ENEMY DEAD 6367 X POW 19 X SUPPLY X EVAC-

UATI0N NORMAL X 12 AIR EVACUATIONS 26 DISTILLATION UNITS IN OPERATION X
25290 GALLONS WATER PRODUCED DURING LAST 24 HOURS X 81MM MORTAR AMMO

CRITICALLY LOW X FOLLOWING HE ARTY AMMO ON POSITION X 1ST BN 5450 RDS
75MM X 2D BN 1363 RDS 105MM X 3RD BN 1892 RDS 105MM X 4TH BN 2414 RDS 105MM X
THE

ABOVE AS OF 1500 X DURING LAST 24 HOURS RECEIVED 250 RDS OF 75MM AND 4198
RDS 105MM X 27 LVTA'S SERVICEABLE 8 LOST OR DESTROYED X 110 LVT'S
SERVICEABLE

21 UNDER REPAIR 20 INOPERATIVE 42 LOST OR DESTROYED X 9 WEASELS
SERVICEABLE 3 UNDER REPAIR 6 LOST OR DESTROYED X 29 DUKWS SERVICEABLE 7
UNDER REPAIR

6 INOPERATIVE 58 LOST OR DESTROYED X LOCATIONS OF CP'S X 5TH MAR DIV 181P X
13TH MAR 147J X 26TH MAR 199E X 27TH MAR 215Y X 28TH MAR 199K X

                                   RAY A. ROBINSON
                                   COLONEL, USMC
                                   CHIEF