“Our artillery has been right up behind the infantry supporting,” Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Yeo, an artillery commander in XI Corps, wrote to his father. “The batteries have been under attack at their positions and wire and observation parties have been attacked. The Jap is desperate.” In a single night, the Japanese suffered about three thousand casualties. So many of their bodies choked the riverbed that American observers who glimpsed them initially thought they were looking at piles of logs.
