OPERATIONS IN BURMA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1943, Page 3

OPERATIONS IN BURMA

BLENHEIMS ATTACK WITHOUT LOSS FIGHTERS SHOOT UP ENEMY TRANSPORT. JAPANESE PLANES MAULED BY AMERICANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 26. An India communique reports: “Blenheims, without loss, yesteidaj successfully attacked objectives in t e Akyab district and the Myitha Valley, and fighters shot up railway trucks and river craft. “Late reports indicate that there was one casualty in yesterday’s Japanese air raid in north-east Assam, when 3U Japanese planes attempted to attack air bases. American fighters, without loss, destroyed six, probably twelve more and damaged others. , RANGOON AREA FIRES STARTED BY AMERICAN BOMBERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 am ’2 R RUGBY, February 26. A Delhi communique states: . Arnerican bombers on Tuesday morning attacked the dock area at Rangoon, staitinff five fires. It is now known that forty-six Japanese aircraft participated in yesterday’s raid on an air base m Assam. Six Japanese bombers and three fighters were destroyed for certain. Only nine enemy planes were seen flying back. Afle refuelling, the American planes went to Burma and destroyed an oil dump and enemy tank.