FIGHTERS' ASSAULT
COLOMBO, July 23. "Every minute from dawn to dark yesterday Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Mosquitoes hammered at the Japanese troops who were hurling themselves at our cordon over the 77-mile stretch of the Rangoon-Mandalay road in their attempt to escape from Burma," says the Australian Associated Press correspondent.
"A continuous cab rank of fighters overhead was directed on to pinpointed targets by ground radio. By dusk many enemy-held villages were flaming wrecks. Foliage was insufficient camouflage for the fleeting enemy, whom the fighters remorselessly hunted down, blowing up buildings and then machine-gunning the Japanese as they scuttled away."
Today's communique says that only a small proportion of the enemy forces has crossed the road. Movement by the Japanese in the area west of Myitkyo has been reported.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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128FIGHTERS' ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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