At ten-thirty, a short distance below the summit of Hill 192, Meserve found what he was looking for — a command post for the day.
Clark could knife the girl from the front, the Sergeant said, while he bayoneted her from behind; the body would then be tossed over a cliff from the summit of Hill 192, where the patrol had reconnoitred the previous day.
The Chinese now turned their attention to D Company holding the summit of Hill 677, on the battalion's left flank.
Meanwhile, the Chinese still occupied three key ridgeline positions the 'Sierra' feature, the 'Hinge' and the summit of Hill 317 itself which they continued to furiously defend.
Reaching their objectives by 10 00, the Australians then took advantage of the initiative gained so far, pushing a platoon towards the summit of Hill 355.
The battalion now occupied a northward facing arc curving from the summit of Hill 677 in the west to the high ground closest to the river.
The next day, elements of the 132nd's 2nd Battalion occupied the summit of Hill 27, surprised and killed a Japanese 75 mm artillery crew, and successfully repulsed, with help from heavy artillery fire, six Japanese counterattacks on their positions.
Meanwhile, on the right flank, D Company under Captain Norm Gravener held the summit of Hill 504 and was not heavily engaged during the night, while C Company commanded by Captain Reg Saunders was attacked only once.
The Americans had been dispatched earlier in the day to ensure that Kapyong remained in UN hands, and one of the battalions was subsequently deployed to the southwest of the D Company, 2 PPCLI on the summit of Hill 677 in order to cover the left flank.
A 19th century traveller, visiting a few years earlier, described the annual festival that was held on the summit of the hill: The hill gained a brief military significance in 1849 when it was used as the site of an Italian gun battery, under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the successful defence of Rome against an attacking French army.
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