AGAIN WRECKED
OIL REFINERY AT RANGOON. SUCCESSFUL ALLIED AIR ATTACH LONDON, May 12-. Allied aircraft have set fire to an oil refinery near Rangoon, just as the Japanese had got it working again after the British had wrecked it before their withdrawal. A Joint India communique states: “Yesterday R.A.F. Hurricanes attacked enemy water transport on the Mayu River. A formation of fighters vigorously machine-gunned fifty supply sampans on the Irrawaddy, between Chauk and Tenangyaung. All the boats were damaged or destroyed. Last night Wellingtons attacked the Kanguang Airfield, in Central Burma. Hits were scored on the runway and fires were started. Other Wellingtons -bombed Meiktla Airfield and the village of Yegyenbyin, on Akyab Island. All our aircraft returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1943, Page 3
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119AGAIN WRECKED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1943, Page 3
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