Cabaruan Hills

An immediate I Corps objective was the enemy position in the Cabaruan Hills, fifteen miles inland from the Lingayen beaches in the sector of the 6th Division. On 22 January Company A, 98th Chemical Mortar Battalion, operating as a unit for the first time on Luzon, supported the 2d Battalion, 20th Infantry, in what was expected to be the culminating effort against Japanese resistance in the Cabaruan Hills. The mortar platoons went into positions about 200 yards from one another in defiladed terrain. Each unit maintained its own observation post on one of the highest hills in the area. These OP s... 

Japanese positions but set fire to brush and grass in which they had taken cover. As enemy opposition ceased, Captain Doolittle organized parties to evacuate the wounded and then led the force in an orderly withdrawal back to the positions from which the attack began. Several days later Cabaruan Hills fell to another infantry battalion. ... 

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