[ ] Nonetheless the bulk of the 68th Independent Mixed Brigade was judged as having been landed as most of the troops themselves got ashore. However because the troops had lost about half of the artillery, signal equipment and ammunition and were landed too far north, their reinforcement was not very decisive. They advanced from San Isidro toward Carigara, but it was too late---on 10 December Ormoc fell and the entire force retreated without engaging in battle when it was seen that Ormoc was lost to the American counter-landing.

[1] HAWKBILL reported MOMO making only 12 knots, in column leading CH 60 on a course nearly due north of 005 degrees. When mated with the prior info of 14 December bomb damage and then the breakdown before dawn it seems likely MOMO had lost the use of her aft engine and starboard shaft. HAWKBILL's torpedo hit the undamaged one and stopped her cold. The submarine did not give the hit location but IJN records do and said it hit the forward bulkhead of the No.2 boiler which is under the second stack and behind the forward engine room. This flooded both spaces and finished the ship.

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