DEVOTION TO DUTY
DISPLAYED BY CIVILIAN PERSONNEL DURING JAPANESE ATTACKS. ON INDIAN AERODROMES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, October 26. The bombing of aerodromes in the North-East Assam is described by General Headquarters, India: "Yesterday enemy aircraft attacked the aerodrome at Chittagong and some aerodromes in North-East Assam. Reports, so far indicate that civilian and military casualties were extremely light and damage small. Civilian labour employed in the areas attacked displayed an extremely high morale. Their devotion to their routine duties was most marked. There was a further raid on an aerodrome in North-East Assam today. No details are yet available, but later one of the enemy aircraft was shot down in flames, two of the crew baling out bv parachute. Enemy losses so far reported in yesterday’s raid are four planes.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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136DEVOTION TO DUTY Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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