CINCPOA COMMUNIQUE NUMBER 328 RELEASED AS OF 2345 CCT [...]
APRIL 1945 AS FOLLOWS X AFTER BEATING OFF TWO SMALL COUNT-
ERATTACKS ON MOTOBU PENINSULA ON THE EVENING OF 9 APRIL,
EAST LONGITUDE DATE MARINE OF THE THIRD AMPHIBIOUS CORPS
ON OKINAWA CONTINUED THEIR ATTACK ON 10 APRIL MOVING THEIR
LINES GENERALLY ABOUT 2500 YARDS WESTWARDS TO THE VICINITY
OF THE MANNA RIVER ON THE SOUTH AND UNTEN BAY ON THE NORTH
ENEMY SUBMARINES AND OTHER INSTALLATIONS WERE CAPTURED X
ON ISHIKAWA MARINES MOVED NORTHWARD TO THE VICINITY OF [TEU...A]
VILLAGE X THE TWENTY FOURTH ARMY CORPS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR
OF THE OKINAWA BATTLE CONTINUED TO MEET STUBBORN ENEMY
RESISTANCE ALONG ITS ENTIRE FRONT X AT 1330 ON 10 APRIL THERE
WERE NOT SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES IN THE LINES X BACKED BY HEAVY
ARTILLERY FIRE THE ENEMY MADE SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL COUNTER-
ATTACKS AGAINST OUR POSITIONS X ARMY TROOPS WERE SUPPORTED
BY INTENSE ARMY AND MARINE ARTILLERY FIRE BY CARRIER AIRCR-
AFT AND BY NAVAL GUNFIRE OF MAJOR UNITS OF THE PACIFIC
FLEET X ELEMENTS OF THE TWENTY FOURTH ARMY CORPS LANDED
ON THUGEN ISLAND ABOUT 10 MILES OFF THE EAST COAST OF
OKINAWA ON THE MORNING OF 10 APRIL ENCOUNTERED SOME ENEMY
RESISTANCE X AT THE END OF 8 APRIL OUR FORCES ON OKINAWA
HAD KILLED 5009 OF THE ENEMY AND HAD TAKEN 222 PRISONERS
OF WAR X AT THAT TIME 43378 CIVILIANS WERE UNDER CARE OF THE
U S MILITARY GOVERNMENT X SEARCH AIRCRAFT OF FLEET AIR
WING ONE BOMBED HANGARS AND BARRACKS ON TAKEGA ISLAND IN
THE NORTHERN RYUKYUS ON 10 APRIL X ELEVENTH FIGHTER COM-
MAND FIGHTERS MUSTANGS BOMBED DOCKS AND SHIPPING CHICHI
JIMA ON 10 APRIL SCORING HITS ON A SMALL CARGO SHIP AT
CHICHI JIMA XX TARGETS IN THE PALAUS WERE STRUCK BY HEL-
CAT AND CORSAIRS, FIGHTERS OF THE FOURTH MARINE AIR WING