METHODICAL BLASTING
Allied Air Superiority In Burma NEW DELHI, November 4. “We have attained air supremacy over Burma and intend to hold it,” declared General Stratemeycr, the United States Air Force commander in South-east Asia. He added that increasing enemy opposition had not prevented our combat crews from carrying out precise and methodical blasting of their objectives. We systematically interfered with railway movements in Burma. ■ General Strabemeyer said that during October the United States Air Force dropped 13,000 tons of bombs on Burma, which was the greatest tonnage so far, and also carried out a record daily number of sorties and operations. Lieut.-Gen. A. G. O. M. Mayne has been appointed G.0.C.-in-C. Eastern Command, India, and as such Will be responsible for operations on the Burma frontier. General Mayne I’eeeived the surrender of the Duke of Aosta, with 7000 troops, at Amba Alagi in May, 1941, which virtually brought the Abyssinia campaign to an end.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 36, 6 November 1943, Page 5
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