RAID ON BANGKOK
BY SUPER-FORTRESSES. NEW YORK, November 27. A correspondent says: A considerable force of Super-Fortresses from India achieved excellent results in a daylight raid on Monday on the Bansue railway yards at Bangkok, an important centre for the clearing of Japanese supplies. Repair shops and many locomotives and freight cars were damaged. Docks and warehouses at Mergiu were also hit. T'he Super-Fortresses encountered little flak or fighter opposition and all our ’planes returned. A United States 20th. Air Force communique stated: Major-General Curtis Lemay attacked in substant:al force railroad marshalling yards and repair facilities at Bangkok and returned to India without combat losses. The weather was clear and cloudless, and visual precision bombing was carried out, results being good. The crews confirmed direct hits on the heart of the target. Our gunners destroyed six enemy fighter ’planes, three others were probably shot down, and two damaged. Flak was meagre.
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Grey River Argus, 29 November 1944, Page 2
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