D Company will be following and deploy to the south.

D Company would provide rear guard, spread across all three columns.

Most of D Company would be captured before they could reach the river.

D Company was primed for it, aching to get going.

D Company made contact with the enemy force of regimental size and was soon under attack from three sides.

D company was the first across, and they immediately proceeded to the southern end of the island to Chamak.

Where any specific sniper was located, D Company could not tell.

D Company received heavy machine-gun fire from Hill 865 to the west, in particular.

Yet with their casualties now unable to be moved, D Company would have to remain in location instead.

By 18:45, D Company had succeeded in moving into an all round defensive position, nearly two and a half hours after the battle began.