THAILAND RAILWAY
MANY BRIDGES DESTROYED RUGBY, Mar. .25.
When Liberators of the Ninth Bombardment Group, Eastern Air Command, destroyed a viaduct on the Burma-Thailand railway on Friday they raised the total number of bridges destroyed in the past three months and a-half to 69, says a message from South-east Asia headquarters. The viaduct is 1680 feet long, is located south of Ban LumSum (Thailand),and is one rail link over which the hardpressed Japanese in Burma can bring in supplies. Photographs show that approximately 700 feet of the viaduct was destroyed by 1000-pounders. Air crews describing the attack said the bridge seemed to blow up and disintegrate.
Advancing swiftly from Wundwin .on the Fourteenth . Army front, an armoured column has occupied Kume, on the main Mandalay trunk road, 15 miles south of Kyaukse, ar.d Langwa, two miles further north-east, says a South-east Asia Command communique. Two trains loaded with stores were captured, while other troops cleared four villages west of Kyaukse against stiff opposition. Our forces moving southwards along the axis of the Irrawaddy towards the oilfields area are overcoming Japanese resistance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 5
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