Fighting for Buri Airfield continued for days, as the Japanese made use of captured weapons and received reinforcements in the form of a single battalion of the 26th Infantry Division that staggered over the mountains to join them. Though the Japanese had to be aware by now that the airfields were of little use, they continued to try to secure this last airstrip still within their grasp.

This last gasp effort by the Japanese paratroopers caused some panic among the American rear echelon, but they finally held and drove off the attackers. Thirty-Fifth Army ordered the operation broken off so the troops could help defend Ormoc, but few if any made it back to the west coast. The handful of Japanese survivors melted back into the jungles where some of them would hold out for years to come.