RAID ON HANOI
MADE BY AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS DAMAGE TO RAILWAY YARDS AND WAREHOUSES. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN OTHER AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.32 a.m.) RUGBY, December 13. Liberators, escorted by fighters, raided Hanoi on December 10, states a coYnmunique from General Stilwell’s ‘headquarters. Ten tons of bombs were dropped on railroad yards and warehouses, and hits and explosions were observed. There was no enemy interception. On the Salween front (in Burma) four villages were bombed. The Japanese raided one of our forward bases, three Japanese planes being shot down. Three fighters and one bomber were damaged. We lost one aircraft. Three Japanese- planes were shot down and three others badly damaged when the Japanese raided another forward base. Chinese planes bombed targets north of Hunan, starting many big fires, states a Chungking message. They also bombed retreating Japanese troops north-west of Changteh. No Chinese planes were lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1943, Page 3
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