RAID ON BURMESE TOWN
Recd. 6 p.m. Calcutta, Nov. 16. R.A.F. medium and heavy bombers early to-day carried out the heaviest and most concentrated attack against Burma since the outbreak of the war in the East, says an official announcement.
Reuter's Calcutta correspondent reports that the raid completely shattered the railway station, marshalling yards, and barracks at Pegu, 46 miles north-east of Rangoon. A large number of planes dropped a heavy tonnage of high-explosive bombs and started big fires. Heavy cloud made the bombing conditions difficult.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 273, 18 November 1943, Page 5
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