The Burma Banshees

November would find the JAAF doubling it’s fighter presence in the area to over 50 fighters. On December 1, 1943 the combined Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces planned a large raid on Calcutta. Near Rangoon, the Allied Strategic Air Force, StraAF would assemble a force of 15 P-38’s from the Burma Banshee’s 459th Fighter Squadron and 10 P-51’s from the 530th Squadron to protect a force of over 40 B24’s Liberators from the 7th and 308th Bomb group and the 490th’s B-25 Mitchell

November would find the JAAF doubling it’s fighter presence in the area to over 50 fighters. On December 1, 1943 the combined Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces planned a large raid on Calcutta. Near Rangoon, the Allied Strategic Air Force, StraAF would assemble a force of 15 P-38’s from the Burma Banshee’s 459th Fighter Squadron and 10 P-51’s from the 530th Squadron to protect a force of over 40 B24’s Liberators from the 7th and 308th Bomb group and the 490th’s B-25 Mitchell