Originally Posted by
walter kennedy
Whatever it was called, what enemy aircraft could have looked like a Liberator and been flying at the time?
Less has been called an act of war when it has suited.
According to 'Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service' by Richard J. Aldrich” the date was Jan 22/23, 1945 and the incidents took place at
night.
To quote the book:
SOE had asked the RAF’s Special Duties squadrons to maintain supplies to the resistance in Indochina by flying especially long and hazardous mission from Burma. Moreover because of the boundary dispute, SOE ceased to inform {Gen.} Wedemeyer’s command of these operations, risking unannounced night-time intrusions into the American air defense network. “