Shamelessly taken from the following book. Any typos are mine.
The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokoyo Bay by Harry A Gailey, published by Presidio Publishing, pages 440-443

After almost two months of fighting on Okinawa, the major prizes of Naha, Yonabaru, and Shuri had eluded the Tenth Army. All elements were still battling an enemy who controlled most of the heights protecting the major concentrations along the Shuri perimeter. III Amphibious Corps had sustained almost eleven thousand casualties, and XXIV Corps, which had borne the brunt of the fighting, had suffered almsot fifteen thousand casualties. The attrition rate on the vehicles was very high. More than 60 percent of all the light and medium tanks committed were either destroyed or damaged. All the troops were exhausted, and illness was rampant. However bad the situation was for the Americans, the Japanese condition bordered on hopeless. The 62d Division had been almost completely wiped out; an estimated sixty-two thousand Japanese were dead. Despite these losses, there was no sign of slackening in the tenacious defense. The Japanese fought until they were killed.

Tenth Army intelligence in the last week of May had concluded that the Japanese would make a final stand along the Shuri line. However, at a staff meeting on the twenty-first, Ushijima and Cho decided to withdraw the bulk of their remaining forces southward, leaving only a rear guard to hold the hills around Shuri. Aerial observers relayed messages to Bickner's headquarters of a great amount of seemingly confused movement behind the lines. Not until 30 May did higher headquarters concede that Shuri might be held by fewer troops than suspected. That same day, elements of the 1st Marine Division northwest of the city moved through a gap in 1544 for the kings of Okinawa but by then a ruin, lay one-half mile in front of the marines. After receiving permission to encroach on 77th Division territory, a battalion from the 5th Marines occupied the castle by midmorning. A number of Japanese remained in caves underneath the fortress and had to be carefully rooted out.

On the thirtieth the 77th Division's 307th Infantry took a major defensive position, Dorothy Hill, burned out three levels of caves in the process. Later, other elements captured three more hill positions. In the east, the 96th had been halted for nine days by Japanese defenses on two large hill masses northeast of Shuri. Using grenades and satchel charges, infantrymen of the 382nd Infantry finally secured those positions. The Japanese shell finally cracked open when the 77th Division moved the Wana Ridge into northern Shuri on the thirty-first, meeting elements of the 1st Marine Division that had moved north of the castle. Shuri, Okinawa's second largest city, was finally in American hands - but it was almost destroyed in the process. An estimated tow hundred thousand high-explosive rounds pumped into the city before Ushijima decided to move most of his remaining troops south.

Offshore, the navy was heavily engaged during the entire month of May with individual and organized kamikaze attacks. There were four more kikusui attacks, each involving more than a hundred planes of ll types. The most dangerous were by two-engined bombers crammed with bombs or torpedos. Despite continuous air cover by navy and army fighters and excellent vectoring by the radar picket ships, some Japanese aircraft always managed to break throught. Antiaircraft fire took a extensive toll of the suicide planes but the few that survived did terrible damage.

The sixth kikusui, a 150-plane strike on 11 May, lost two-thirds of its number before reaching the ships. Nevertheless, the destroyers Evans and Hadley were so badly damaged that they had to be towed to Kerama. Nor did TF58 escape. Mitchner's flagship, the Bunker Hill, took two hits and sustained damage second only to that suffered by the Franklin. The suicide planes caused 353 deaths on the carrier. Three days later, the Enterprise was damaged so badly that it, too, had to be sent to a major West Coast shipyard. These serious losses were in contrast to the British aircreaft carriers Formidable, Indomitable, and Victorious, all of which were struck by kamikazes but whose armored decks kept damage to a minimum. Individual attackers damaged the destroyer Bache on the thirteenth and the Fox on the fifteenth.

The seventh kikusui, launched over a three-day period from 23 to 25 May, was the last in which the Japanese committed more than a hundred planes. The continued pounding of Kyush and Shikoku by TF58, coupled with he heavy attrition fo the kamikazes, dramatically lowered the number of planes available. In this attack the destroyers Stormes, Anthony, and Braine were so seriously damaged that they had to be towed to Kerama.

The last major organized attack of the month occured on the twenty-eigth. It coincided with a changeover in the U.S. fleets as Halsey again replaced Spruance and McCain took over from Mitscher. This attach cost the third Fleet the destroyer Drexler, which was blown apart, and the destroyers Anthony, Brainer, and Shubrick, all heavilly damaged.

Suicide planes also attacked fixed installations on Kerama and at the airfields at Kadena, Yontan, and on Ie Shima. One of the most bizarre episodes in the entire kamikaze campaign occured on the evening of 24 May at Yontan Field. Five two-engined bombers were spotted approaching the field from the direction of Ie Shima. Four of these were shot down but the fifth, although damaged, did a wheels-up landing on the airstrip. Ten heavily armed Japanese leaped from the plan and began throwing grenades and incendiaries at the parked aircreaft. Before they were killed, these suicide troops had destroyed seven planes and damaged twenty-six others. In addition, they ignited a fuel dump and seventy thousand gallons of gasoline went up in flames.