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AIR ATTACKS ON JAPANESE IN BURMA PEGU RAILWAY DEPOT SHATTERED. GREAT FIRES STARTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) CALCUTTA, November 16. “R.A.F. medium and heavy bombers early today carried out their heaviest and most concentrated attack against Burma since the outbreak of the Eastern war,’’ says an offiOial announcement. Reuter’s Calcutta correspondent reports that the raid completely shattered the railway station, marshalling yards and barracks at Pegu, 46 miles north-east of Rangoon. A large number of planes dropped a heavy tonnage of high-explosive bombs and started big fires. Heavy clouds made the bombing conditions difficult.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 4
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102HEAVIEST TO DATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 4
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