| In the Ryukyu Islands... On Okinawa, the Japanese pocket in the Oroku Peninsula has been reduce to perimeter
measurable in yards but their resistance remains fanatical. An assault
by the US 1st Marine Division (US 3rd Amphibious Corps) fails to capture
Kunishi Ridge. A regiment of the US 96th Division reaches the town of
Yuza but is forced to withdraw by intensive Japanese fire. An important
height east of Mount Yaeju is capture by American forces.
In the Philippines... On Luzon, fighting at Orioung Pass
continues as Japanese forces continue to hold the US 37th Division.
In China... Japanese forces recapture Ishan in Kwangsi
Province.
In Liberate Czechoslovakia... Soviet authorities begin the
forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland to the west.
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