AIR SUPREMACY
ATTAINED OVER BURMA £ AND WILL BE HELD BY ALLIES. AMERICAN COMMANDER’S DECLARATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) NEW DELHI, November 4. “We have attained air supremacy ever Burma, and intend to hold it,” declared General Stratemeyer, United States Air Force commander in South-East Asia. He added: “Increasing enemy opposi„_iion has not prevented our combat crews carrying out ?. precise and methodical blasting of objectives. We have systematically choked railway movements in Burma.” General Stratemeyer said that during October the United States Air Force dropped 13,000 tons of bombs in Burma, which' was' the greatest tonnage thus far. It had also carried out daily a record number of sorties and operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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114AIR SUPREMACY Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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