U.S. Navy Department (April 18, 1945)
CINCPOA Communiqué No. 336
Tenth Army troops in Ie Shima made substantial gains in the northeastern area of the Island on April 18 (East Longitude Date). The enemy in the area of Iegusugu Peak gave stiff resistance from dug in positions and pillboxes. On the third day of the action, preliminary reports show that 388 of the enemy have been killed and one prisoner taken. In the same period, our forces lost 15 killed and 73 wounded. Five are listed as missing.
Elements of the Marine III Amphibious Corps have reached the northern end of Okinawa Island. The Marines on Motobu Peninsula continued operations on April 18 against isolated groups of the enemy in that sector.
There were no changes in the lines of the XXIV Army Corps in the southern sector of Okinawa. Naval guns and carrier aircraft continued to attack enemy strongpoints in the south. As of April 18, according to the most recent reports available, 989 officers and men of the U.S. Pacific Fleet had been killed in the Okinawa operation and associated attacks on Japan, 2,220 were wounded in action, and 1,491 were missing in action. At last report, the soldiers and Marines of the Tenth Army had lost 478 officers and men killed, 2,457 had been wounded and 260 were missing.
A Search Privateer of Fleet Air Wing One sank a small cargo ship north of the Ryukyus on April 18.
Corsair and Hellcat fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing attacked targets in the Palaus and destroyed buildings on Yap in the Western Carolines on April 18.
Liberators of the 11th Army Air Force on April 17, bombed the Kataoka Naval Base on Shumushu in the Northern Kurils.
U.S. patrols on Saipan, Tinian and Guam in the Marianas killed 30 Japanese and took 88 prisoners of war during the week ending April 14.