BATTLE FOR PEGU
FOUGHT IN RICEFIELDS HEAVY ENEMY CASUALTIES. JAPANESE AIR LOSSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 8. Reuter’s Mandalay correspondent says the battle for Pegu is unabated. Our forces are able to bring the full weight of their fire-power now against the Japanese, who have emerged from the jungle into the paddy fields. The British tanks are inflicting heavy casualties, despite mortar fire, and the R.A.F. is consistently raiding the Japanese long and exposed communications, which are primarily based on the road from Martaban through Thaton, causing carrier elephants to stampede. The Japanese air losses over Burma throughout the campaign arc at least 250 planes, with the record proportion of 25 per cent shot down in each raid.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420310.2.20.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119BATTLE FOR PEGU Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in