AIR ACTIVITY
AGAINST JAPANESE IN BURMA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 17
An India communique states: “Yesterday R.A.F. Hurricanes machinegunned Japanese army huts and troops in the Maungdaw area, and at Simon, on the Mayu Peninsula. Other aircraft attacked loaded supply sampans near Minbya and on the Kaladan River, north of Akyab, destroying six and damaging others. In the Lalewa district, Mohawks attacked a river steamer and supply dumps at Kongyi with bombs and machine-gun fire. None of our aircraft are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 3
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87AIR ACTIVITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 3
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