involving about four hundred “Takachiho” paratroopers of an Airborne Raiding Brigade based on Luzon. The Japanese troopers returned rifle fire from aloft, and threw hand grenades as they approached the ground. Several Seabee engineers were in the shower as the enemy paratroopers hit the ground, and “bolted, buck naked, for their guns.”71 Fierce firefights continued late into the night. Squads of attackers set demolition charges in parked airplanes and fuel storage dumps, and fires blazed through the area. Fighting continued for three days. The 11th Airborne Division, supported by Seabees and
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