The Marines Advanced up the board on the west side of the board to flank the Japanese on the hill. A section broke off and took the middle road to attack a small force of Japanese in the east. The going was easy and the marines advanced to within spitting distance of the enemy. The Japanese starting firing at the marines but did no damage. Two platoons assaulted a dug-in Japanese platoon with a gun. The Japanese defense was tough and disrupted the marines. The other platoons advanced up the hill toward the other dug-in Japanese position. Mean while the LTVA-4's advanced to the east to attack the enemy in two villages. As one of the LTV's advanced toward the ville a Japanese gun opened fire from the hill. Oh God it is an 88. The first shots took out an LTV (12 rolled. Assault continued with the Japanese attacking the Marines, but they held tough and disorganized the Japanese platoon. The Lt. ordered his Sgt to take his platoon and assault a unit in the jungle while He takes his Platoon into the assault. Shots were traded back and and forth with no results on either side. When we played this we did not see the errata that increased the turns. So the marines kept attacking and finally managed to disorganize most of the Japanese units but just could not break the last one. So the Japanese won the day.