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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 2, 2021 21:38:28 GMT 12
NEW ZEALANDER FIRST AT AKYAB
ARRIVAL BY AIRCRAFT
COLOMBO, Jan. 5. A few hours before the first British and Indian troops landed on Akyab Island the island's former judge, now a Royal New Zealand Air Force wing commander, flew in a light aircraft and landed on a strip made serviceable by villagers. He was Wing Commander J. G. B. Bradley, Wellington, New, Zealand, The villagers greeted him with garlands of flowers and told him that the Japanese, when they had to abandon large quantities of rice — the islands staple food — poured kerosene on it. They removed all roofing materials, such as corrugated iron and wood.
PRESS, 8 JANUARY 1945
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Post by davidd on Feb 6, 2021 10:32:40 GMT 12
Ahhh, the old "burned earth" tactic (or in this case, substitute "ruined rice"), practised ever since humans started being mean to one another, and still in use to present day. David D
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