Japs. Conserve Planes In Burmese Fighting
LONDON. August 22
Caotain Clark Johnston has returned after 14 months with the United States Tenth Air Force in India. Interviewed, he said that the crippling effect of bombing attacks had prevented Japanese exploitation of Burma or its use as an invasion base against India. The Japanese keep little air strength in Burma, as they did not want to lose planes. They bring planes from Indo-China foi-l-aids 'and missions and then send them back to safe territory. Our Mitchell bombers skip bombs into warehouses, bridges, trains and ammunition dumps from a few feet above ground. Flying so low prevents Japanese detection until the planes have bombed and strafed and gone.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1943, Page 3
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