22- _____ AA once during night (1.30AM). GQ went out at 500 to 600 then chow & after chow they set Cond. II for bombardment. In todays Bombardment(2 - CA-) (1CL) & (3 DDs)
help us. Captain Miller made a special an___ at 11.15 AM about what we have been doing. Here is what he told us
_____ Mobile has [k]nock out a lot of guns & has also help to cl[ear] a lot of caves which the Japs are using to hide in during the day & coming out at night. We will stay here & help our troops as much as possable. We now have 40 miles of the 65 miles which make up the [bulk] of Okinawa. We have the Northern end of the island. The operation is way ahead of time. Tomorrow we were told we are going back to K_____ anchorage. We stop bombarding at "1800" (6 PM)
____ AA defense went at 1830 _ GQ at 1915 _ also Jap was spotted swimming 6000 yards from Mobile when ships open fire on him _ he blow up. We went out at 2015.
____ We have lost 5 DDs since this battle for Okinawa has started.
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Cond. = condition
CA = heavy cruisers
CL = light cruiser
DD = destroyers
Captain Christopher C. Miller, USN, Class of 1918
an = announcement. Likely morale was pretty low after the turret accident and Captain Miller was trying to rally his crew.
K = Kerama
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