PATROL ACTIVITY
KOHIMA SECTOR OF BURMA RUGBY, June 15.
On the Kohima sector there was some patrol activity and our artillery shelled enemy posiiions, states a South-east Asia communique. Moving north from Kanglatongbi our troops gained ground. An entire Japanese convoy moving eastwards on one sector was destroyed or dispersed. Seventy-five dead Japanese were counted and many pack animals were killed or taken.' R.A.F. heavy bombers on Wednesday successfully ‘attacked targets in the Tiddim road area. On Tuesday and Wednesday R.A.F. fighters and fighter-borruers attacked enemy positions, tanks, motor transport, troop concentrations, and a bridge in the Manipur sector. Two Allied aircraft are. missing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 6
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