AIR ATTACKS IN BURMA
Rec. 11.30 a.m,
RUGBY. Sept. 13.
An India communique states: "Yesterday R.A.F. Beaufighters successfully attacked railroad communications near Maungdaw. Other patrols attacked sampans, sinking, at least .nine and damaging others. On Mayu Peninsula Hurricanes inflicted casualties on Japanese troops at'Sinoh. All our planes returned." It is now known that in a divebombing attack by Vengeance planes on Buthidaung on August 31 over 150 Japanese were killed, and that the attack on troop positions at Maungdaw on August 30 was also very effective.—E.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 5
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