OKINAWA FIGHT
AMERICAN OBJECTIVE
NEW YORK, May 2. I Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar Buckner told a Press conference that the remaining objective of the Okinawa campaign was to kill as many Japanese as possible, as soon as possible, with the least loss to the Americans. The Americans so far had suffered less than one man hurt for every Japanese Wong Japanese defences and difficult terrain had slowed down the U.b. advance, he said, but the American tactics were to push fingers around the Japanese strong-points and not malte frontal assaults on the forUflcations-a slower process, but one which saved lrAdmiral Nimitz's communique says that the 7th Infantry Division continued to advance in the eastern sector of Okinawa and entered Kuhazu village Local gains were made on tne remainder of the front. Enemy planes damaged a medium-sized ship. Carrier aircraft attacked the SakiShima group. The bombing and strafing iof various installations over a wide area, including- Truk, continued.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 6
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156OKINAWA FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 6
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