ENEMY AERODROMES IN BURMA

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 115, 10 February 1944, Page 5

ENEMY AERODROMES IN BURMA

i Allied Attacks Repeated (British Official"Wireloss.) (Received February 9, 5.30 p.m.) RUGBY, February 8. Bombers of the Eastern Command’s strategic air force attacked the Heho and Aungban airfields, 90 miles southeast of Mandalay, for tbe second time in 24 hours on Saturday night, states a South-east Asia headquarters report. American medium bombers had attacked the same targets on Saturday morning. Bombers attacked the Myittha and Sagain airfields, During the Heho raid a Japanese interceptor crashed into a mountainside. R.A.F, dive-bombers of the tactical air force yesterday attacked Taung Tazaar Badana, eight miles north-north-east of Bnthidaung. The Land forces continued to engage the enemy in th? Tiddim area on Sunday, British forces twice ambushed parties of Japanese and inflicted considerable casualties. That night they consolidated the ground gained, and active patrolling was carried out.

Liberator bombers dropped three tons of bombs on an ordnance plant at Bangkok, starting many fires, states General Stilwell’s communique. Mitchells carried out sweeps over Indo-China, destroying trains and railway bridges, and strafing industrial buildings. Troops of the Fourteenth Army continue to engage the Japanese on the Arakan front, and they are "being strongly backed up by R.A.F, dive bombers. In the Chiu hills our troops ambushed a Japanese patrol, inflicting heavy casualties. During the day they consolidated the ground gained. It is officially reported from Colombo that enemy planes dropped a few bombs along the coast of Ceylon last night. There were no casualties, and damage was negligible.