RANGOON BOMBED
FORCE OF SUPER-FORTRESSES
RUGBY, Mar. 22. The United States War Department announced that India-based SuperFortresses to-day blasted targets in Rangoon. A correspondent at Twentieth Bomber Command headquarters in India says the principal targets were supply dumps on Lake Victoria and in the Mingaldon cantonment. The results were reported “good to excellent” with fires and explosions in the dump areas. Both the anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition were meagre, and all the planes returned safely. Between Mandalay and the Myitnge River to the south, pockets of Japanese resistance are being mopped up, states a South-east Asia Command communique. At Myingyan sharp fighting continues. Our troops are firmly established in the southern part of the town. In Northern Burma Chinese troops are now 25 miles southeast of Lashio, on the Lashio-HsipaV road. Three enemy aircraft were de stroyed and barracks and revetmentr strafed during fighter sweeps ovei Tavoy and Moulmein.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 8
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150RANGOON BOMBED Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 8
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