TARGETS IN BURMA
ALLIED AIRCRAFT ACTIVE RUGBY, Oct. 22. Troop positions and communications were again the principal targets of R.A.F. bombers and fighters in Burma yesterday, states an India communique, Vengeance dive-bombers attacked Japanese troops in the Kalemyo area with good effect, while Beaufighters attacked two groups of army huts at Monglong, 70 miles north-east of Mandalay, and left many on fire. Other Beauflghters patrolling railways in the Shewbo district heavily damaged four locomotives, storage dumps, and wagons. Early on Thursday morning Wellingtons dropped bombs on Meiktila airfield and the railway yards at Sagaing. On Wednesday, in addition to the operations reported yesterday, Vengeances and Hurricanes attacked troops in the Buthidaung area. From all operations none of our aircraft are missing.
It is now learned that in the air raid on Chittagong on Wednesday A.A. gunners damaged four enemy aircraft, of which three were probably destroyed. Blasting Japanese positions in Myitha Valley, Vengeances dropped over 60,0001 b of high explosives in three days recently. The bombs were rained down in a series of concentrated raids by a squadron which has been giving close support to the army in breaking up enemy movements. The Vengeances dived to 3000 feet to release their loads on troop concentrations.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25365, 25 October 1943, Page 3
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