REPEATED ATTACKS
ON JAPANESE AIRFIELDS > IN BURMA MORE LAND ENGAGEMENTS. ENEMY PARTIES AMBUSHED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, February 7. “Allied Strategic Air Force bombers of the Eastern Command attacked the Heho and Aungban airfields, 90 miles south-west of Mandalay, for the second time in 24 hours, on Saturday night,” states a South-East Asia Headquarters communique. American medium bombers attacked the same targets on Saturday morning and inflicted further damage. Bombers attacked the Myittha and Sagain airfields. A Japanese interceptor fighter, during the Heho raid, crashed on a mountainside. R.A.F. dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force yesterday attacked Taung Tazaar and Badana, eight miles north-north-east of Buthidaung. “Our land forces have continued to engage the enemy. In the Tiddim area, on Sunday, British forces twice ambushed parties of Japanese and inflicted considerable casualties. That night our forces consolidated the ground gained. Active patrolling has been carried out.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1944, Page 4
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