ATTACK IN FORCE
MADE BY U.S. BOMBERS ON MANDALAY HEAVY DAMAGE TO ENEMY RAILWAY CENTRE. 1 PRACTICALLY NO OPPOSITION. LONDON, November 22. In. Burma the great, railway centre of Mandalay was attacked last Friday by the largest formation of American heavy bombers ever to .operate* from any air base in India. Heavy damage was done io repair shops and other railway installations and to warehouses. There was practically no opposition and all the attacking planes returned safely.
BRITISH RAIDS MADE ON INCREASED SCALE. ENEMY AIRFIELDS BLASTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY. November 22. A New Delhi communique states: “R.A.F. medium and heavy bombers, operating on an increased scale last night, dropped many thousands of pounds of explosives on the Japanese airfields at Mingaldon and Toungoo, in Burma. Fires which resulted were visible a hundred miles away. Blenheims in daylight yesterday successfully bombed objectives in the Kaladan River area. All our planes returned.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1942, Page 3
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