BOMBING OVER BURMA
WEATHER COMPLICATES OPERATIONS (Rec. 7 p.tn.) LONDON. Aug. 5. i?or two nights in succession, Wellington bombers from Bengal took advantage of a sudden break in the monsoon to launch heavy bombing attacks against Toungoo and Akyab. Wing Commander R. G. Maddox, A.F.C., of Dunedin, who participated in these raids, paid a tribute to the work of the navigators in these difficult monsoon operations. He said that huge walls of cloud often formed in front of the pilot’s eyes and a course had to be stgered round them, for these walls of cloud contained eddy currents and electrical storms which threw the instruments out of gear. Monsoon floods caused the contours of the land to change, and this, combined with heavy cloud conditions, made navigation most difficult
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24020, 7 August 1943, Page 5
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