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REPORTED IN BURMA. R.A.F. AID AMERICAN ACTIVITIES. LONDON, February 15. In Burma there is no fresh news of any land fighting but the R.A.F. has been out again attacking Japanese targets in the Akyab area. It is now known that on Saturday United States fighter-bombers attacked Japanese barracks and stores in Northern Burma, while in Central Burma they went for railway rolling stock and bombed enemy occupied buildings. “Blenheims, escorted by fighters, attacked the Japanese-occupied villages of Aiet Zigaing and Auk Zigaing, near Akyab, yesterday morning,” says an India join ; communique. “Many fires were started. Other Blenheims bombed Padali and Kyauktaw, on Akyab Island and Pauktawgyla, a few miles east of the Kaladan River. All our aircraft returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 3
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122AIR ACTION ONLY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 3
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