BURMA CAMPAIGN
RANGOON BOMBED. > RUGBY, March 22. The United States War Department announced that India-based Superfortresses, to-day, blasted targets at Rangoon. A correspondent. at Twentieth Bomber Command Headquarters, India, says the principal- targets were supply dumps on Lake Victoria and Mingaladon Cantonment. The results were reported “good to excellent,” with fires and explosions in dump areas. Both anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition were meagre, and all the planes returned safely. JAPANESE CASUALTIES. LONDON, March 22. An officer of Admiral Lord Mountbatten’s staff, in an interview in the United States, said that more than 100,000 Japanese had been killed in Burma. The rate of killing Japanese was increasing as they became weaker through shortage of food. Japanese supply lines had been cut, shipping to Rangoon had been destroyed by Allied submarines, and supply columns had been attacked by longrange penetration groups.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1945, Page 5
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