Contact is made during day with 40th Div Ren Tr, which has driven down from the N, and with Filipino guerillas. Inf, which is working N along it. 3d Bn, 27th Inf, continues to clear Mt Myoko. 2d Bn, 35th Inf, gains ridge 600 yards N of Fishhook. In XIV Corps area, 1st and 3d Bns, RCT 158, make contact on main ridge of Cituinan hill mass.
Some ground is gained against firm opposition.
Japanese apparently intend to make a final stand in hills NW of Davao City. 41st Div, will move up from Zamboaga to guards communication lines and thus free X Corps to press attack. RCT 108, 40th Div, is to land at Macajalar Bay and move S along Sayre Highway to establish contact with 31st Div forces moving N, thus splitting the island. Aircraft and any pound the strongpoint. On Negro's, forward elements of 2d Bn, 164th Inf, reach leading to Palimpinon.