More American GI's into the jungle, another stiff defense by the Japanese. With added troops the Americans renewed their attack. The added forces helped, but the jungle still proved to be a harsh mistress. The Americans scored a great OBA hit early on, but their support was limited to the first few turns. The Japanese took advantage of opportunity fire to make the advancing GIs pay. The fog of war made it hard for the Americans to coordinate their attacks. Once several hexes were involved in assault combat the Japanese morale kept thwarting the GI's attempts to control the victory hexes. The GIs killed some steps of Japanese, but often became disrupted due to the powerful defensive positions and assault modifiers that the Japanese could bring to bear. In the end the GI's "threw themselves against the wall" but could no break through.