RAIDS ON BURMA.
ATTACKS ON COAST AND ISLAND.
LONDON, January, 25
A communique received from India today reports a raid by the Royal Air Force on the aerodrome at Shwetoi, ’in Upper Burma, last night. All the bombs fell in the dispersal areas. Enemy-occupied villages on Akyab Island were also bombed! . Yesterday Royal Air Force patrol,te attacked enemy shipping on' the Arakan coast and damaged buildings on land. No aircraft are missing from these attacks. Last night « squadron of Hurricanes madte a series of attacks oil; the Prome area n Lower Burma, the first raid to be made by fighters on this district.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 90, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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