TARGETS IN BURMA
MANY JAPANESE BASES
BOMBED. SOME BIG FIRES STARTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, October 24. In Burma, enemy troop positions , were the R.A.F.’s principal targets on Saturday, when attacks were carried out by dive-bombers, fighter-bombers and fighters, says an India communique. In Arakan, Vengeances divebombed Buthidaung and enemy-occu-pied villages nearby, dropping all their bombs in the target area. In the Chin Hills, Vengeances attacked an enemyoccupied vilage in the Kalemyo sector and’ started a fire from which smoke was visible for 30 miles. Further south, fighters attacked groups of Army huts along the Taungup Pass Road., setting a number on fire. On Friday, in operations already reported, Mohawks attacked Kalemyo and a Japanese village with bombs and machine-gun firfc. From these operations none of our aircraft are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1943, Page 4
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135TARGETS IN BURMA MANY JAPANESE BASES Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1943, Page 4
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