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Pressure on Airfield

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Pressure on Airfield

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Interviewer: During this period you referred to the pressure that you were putting on the Japanese airfields, can you describe what that pressure actually was? Well we would attack a squadron, I haven't emphasized this, but we were sort of lone wolves. Most of our operations were done with two air crafts or one. We got, later in the war, just one because it, bigger bang for your buck, but we did have squadron attacks on airfields, and that would be six aircraft usually, sometimes more. And we would try to surprise them and come out of the sun at dawn and we drove them back from the forward airstrips that existed from, the days when Burma was part of the Indian (inaudible) of Great Britain. They built airfields, Magway and Prome and several others along the Irrawady, they were all-weather airstrips. And all-weather is a key word here because you can't fly out of a, a grass field, for five months of the year. So, so they were driven back to places like Yeu, Meiktila, which was a big group of airfields in Central Burma and Myingyon at Rangoon. And back, and they had big airfields in Northern Siam also.
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Mr. Sutherland-Brown talks about the tactics they used to put pressure on the Japanese Airfields.

Atholl Sutherland Brown

Mr. Sutherland Brown was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1923. Mr. Sutherland was the youngest of three sons, all of whom where in the military. His father had an extensive military background, but resigned just before Hitler took power. Mr. Sutherland enlisted at the age of 16 as a private with the Piper 16th Canadian Scottish. He then finished his education at Victoria College before joining the air force at 18.

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Video
Owner:
Veterans Affairs Canada
Duration:
02:01
Person Interviewed:
Atholl Sutherland Brown
War, Conflict or Mission:
Second World War
Location/Theatre:
Asia
Branch:
Air Force
Units/Ship:
Bullfighter Squadron
Occupation:
Pilot

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