U.S. Navy Department (April 26, 1945)
CINCPOA Communiqué No. 344
On April 26 (East Longitude Date), the troops of the XXIV Army Corps moved forward and secured positions on the high ground East of Urasoe Mura. Battleships and cruisers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet continued to give close gunfire support to the troops. A number of batteries, emplacements, structures and caves were destroyed by ships’ guns. Aircraft from carriers and planes of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing attacked enemy installations in the southern sector of the island. During the early hours of April 26, a few enemy aircraft approached our forces in the area around Okinawa and one was shot down.
Carrier aircraft of the U.S. Pacific Fleet continued neutralizing attacks on airfield installations in the Sakishima Group on April 25.
Search aircraft of Fleet Air Wing One strafed and sank a number of fishing craft, a small picket boat and a torpedo boat and damaged a number of other small craft in the waters east of Kyushu on April 26.
Helldiver bombers of the 4th MarAirWing struck the airfield on Yap on April 26. On the same date, fighters of the same Wing bombed targets in the Palaus. On the previous day dive bombers of the same Wing continued neutralizing raids on the Marshalls.
Search Privateers of FlAirWing Two bombed fuel and ammunition storage areas on Wake Island on April 25.