U.S. Navy Department (April 23, 1945)
CINCPOA Communiqué No. 341
Naval guns and carrier aircraft continued to support troops of the XXIV Army Corps attacking the enemy’s fortified line in the southern sector of Okinawa on April 23 (East Longitude Date).
Planes from carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked 25 enemy aircraft about to take off from an airfield on Miyako in the Sakishima group on the evening of April 22 destroying 15 on the ground and shot down five more in the air. Four planes were shot down over Ishigaki in the same group. On April 23, three aircraft were destroyed on the ground at Kume Island in the Okinawa group by our fighters and a single enemy plane was shot down north of Okinawa by a Marine plane.
No further information is available on the progress of the fighting in southern Okinawa.
Carrier aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet bombed and strafed air installations in the Sakishima group on April 16 and 17. Four enemy planes were shot down and one was destroyed on the ground.
Fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing bombed targets in the Palaus on April 23.
On April 22, Marine Corsairs continued neutralizing raids on enemy bases in the Marshalls.