HONGKONG AIRFIELD
ATTACKED BY MITCHELLS
LONDON, Jan. 25.
General Stilwell’s communique states that Mitchells, with fighter escort, including Chinese pilots, bombed Maitak aerodrome at Hongkong. Heavy flak and interception were encountered. One Zero was shot down. Mitchells of a Sino-American sea sweep off the South-east China coast attacked a Japanese convoy of seven merchantmen, sinking one freighter and one tanker, each of 5600 tons, and seriously damaging another- freighter of the same tonnage. All our aircraft returned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25444, 27 January 1944, Page 5
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