U.S. Navy Department (May 1, 1945)
CINCPOA Communiqué No. 349
Troops of the 7th Infantry Division continued to advance in the eastern sector of the lines on Okinawa on April 30 (East Longitude Date). By mid‑afternoon advance elements of the division had entered the village of Kuhazu. Local gains were made along the remainder of the front. The attack of the infantry was supported by heavy naval gunfire, heavy artillery and carrier and land‑based aircraft. A few enemy planes were in the area of Okinawa on April 30. One medium-sized ship was damaged.
Aircraft from escort carriers attacked air installations in the Sakishima group on April 30. Reports of the strike on these islands by escort carrier planes on April 29 reveal that ammunition dumps were exploded, radio facilities and barracks were hit and several planes were destroyed on the ground.
Search planes of Fleet Air Wing One bombed and strafed radio installations on Kuro and Kuchino Islands in the northern Ryukyus on April 30. An enemy plane was destroyed on the ground at Kuchino. On the following day, aircraft of this wing sank a cargo ship and damaged another in the East China Sea; sank a small cargo ship off the southern coast of Shikoku; and destroyed a small cargo ship at Miyake Island, south of Tokyo.
On April 30, Army Mustangs of the VII Fighter Command, escorted heavy bombers of the XXI Bomber Command over Tokyo, probably shot down one enemy plane and strafed three picket boats off the coast leaving them afire and dead in the water. Iwo-based Mustangs on May 1, bombed and strafed military installations on Chichi Jima in the Bonins.
Mitchells of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing damaged a large cargo ship with rockets north of the Bonins on April 30. Corsair and Hellcat fighters end Avenger torpedo planes of this wing bombed enemy islands in the Palaus on May 1.
Army Thunderbolt fighters of the Seventh Air Force shot down a four-engine seaplane over Truk in the Carolines on April 30 and swept the seaplane base and harbor with rocket fire sinking one small craft and damaging two others. Army Liberators of the same force followed the attack with heavy bombing of the airfields on Moen and Param Islands. Marcus Island was bombed by 7th AF Liberators on the same date.
Eleventh AAF Liberators bombed Kataoka naval base on Shumushu on April 30. On the same date, installations on Kokutan Cape on the same island, were attacked by search planes of FlAirWing Four.