BOMBINGS IN BURMA
RUGBY, August 17. An India communique stated: Yesterday R.A.F. Hurricanes machinegunned Japanese Army huts and troops in the Maungdam area, and at Simon on Mayo Peninsula. Other aircraft attacked loaded supply sampans near Minbya and on Kaladan River, north of Akyab, destroying six and damaging others. On the Lalewa district Mohawks attacked a river steamer and supply dumps at Kongyi with bombs and machine-gun fire. None of our aircraft is missing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1943, Page 5
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