MANY AIR ATTACKS
ON JAPANESE-OCCUPIED BURMA. DAMAGE TO ENEMY TRANSPORT & POSITIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, July 20. An Indian communique states: “Yesterday the R.A.F. continued its attacks on enemy transportation and troop positions in Arakan and other parts of Japanese-occupied Burma. At Chindwin, Beaufighters set fire to an oil storage tank opposite the station and smoke rose 5,000 feet. They also damaged supply sampans and two river launches, one of which was left burning. Mohawks attacked targets at Kalemyo. Hurricanes, operating along the Irrawaddy, damaged oil barges and other river craft. In the Arakan area Blenheims dropped bombs on Rathedaung and Minbya. Hurricanes made low-level attacks on Japanese army huts at several places in the Mayu Peninsula. Further south other Hurricanes sank a 70-foot boat and several sampans and damaged others. One of our aircraft is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1943, Page 3
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