EXCELLENT RESULTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 42, 29 November 1944, Page 3

EXCELLENT RESULTS.

DAYLIGHT RAID ON BANGKOK. (Rec. 12.40.) NEW YORK, Nov. 27. A considerable force of Superfortresses from India achieved excellent results in a daylight raid to-day on the Bansue railway yards, Bangkok, an important centre for clearing Japanese supplies, says a United Press correspondent. Repair shops and many locomotives and freight cars weie damaged. Docks and warehouses at Mergiu were also hit. Superfortresses encountered little flak or fightei opposition. All the planes returned. A message from Washington says that Superfortresses conducted daylight attacks upon strategical and industrial objectives of two widely-sep-arated areas to-day,- says the 20th Air Force communique. Major-General Curtis Lemay attacked, in substantial force, railway marshalling yards and repair facilities at Bangkok, and returned to India without losses in combat. The weather was clear and cloudless. Visual precision bombing was carried out and the results were good. Crews confirmed that direct hits had been made on the heart of the target. Our gunners destroyed six enemy fighter planes. Three others were probably shot down and two damaged. The anti-aircraft fire was meagre.

Simultaneously General Mansell’s command dispatched a sizeable force of Superfortresses against Tokio for the second time in four days. TJio principal objective was the industrial waterfront. Bombing was done through heavy cloud cover so the results were not observed. Both antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition was virtually nil. None of our planes was 409 t to enemy action.