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AIR ATTACKS ON ENEMY IN BURMA RAILWAY & OTHER TARGETS \ BOMBED INEFFECTIVE JAPANESE RAIDS (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. “On Thursday, in Burma, R.A.F. dive-bombers carried out attacks on an enemy-occupied village on the Mayu Peninsula, while fighter-bombers attacked positions in the Kalemye area,” states an India communique. “Large fires resulted from these attacks and bombs were seen to fall on the targets. Fighters, in sweeps against enemy communications south of Mandalay, damaged a locomotive and several river craft and shot up other targets. During Thursday night, heavy bombers started fires in an attack on railway installations at Insein, near Rangoon. Prome was also raided and bomb bursts seen along railway lines. “One of our forward airfields was attacked yesterday by Japanese bombers. The damage was slight. There were some civilian casualties. Early on Friday morning, enemy ,aircraft approached Ceylon and the Madras area. One plane was destroyed and another was damaged. No bombs were dropped.
“From all these operations none of our aircraft are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 3
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