BOMBING ATTACKS
ON JAPANESE BASES IN BURMA
DIRECT HIT ON ENEMY SHIP OFF COAST.
ALL PLANES RETURN SAFELY.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 13. A New Delhi R.A.F. communique states; “Our planes based in India bombed enemy targets in the Chindwin Valley and off the Arakan coast. .On Sunday Blenheims successfully attacked barracks and a Japanese air base in Kalewa. All our bombs were seen to fall in the target area, but the results were not observed, owing to cloud. On the same day an enemy merchantman was bombed off the Arakan coast and a direct hit was scored. All our planes returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1942, Page 4
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