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BEGINNING TO BEND

JAPANESE DEFENCE LINE Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, May 24. Quickly exploiting yesterday's gams the United States marines and infantry on Okinawa are smashing with their full weight both the coastal sides _of the Japanese line, which is beginning to bend in the shape of a hairpin, writes a correspondent on Guam. _ The eastern anchor of the line is already loose, with a deep salient into the hills driving dangerously inland to cut the Shuri defences. . Marines who stormed the mudflats under a smoke screen are now consolidating inside Naha capital, the collapse of which will cut adrift the western anchor .of the enemy line. Today the marines are clearing out strong-points and blasting snipers from the body-strewn streets.—B.O.W.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

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BEGINNING TO BEND Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

BEGINNING TO BEND Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5