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Operation Boomerang was an air raid by the United States Army Air Forces's XX Bomber Command against targets in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies during World War II. It took place on the night of 10/11 August 1944 and involved attempts to bomb an oil refinery at Palembang and lay mines to interdict the Musi River. A total of 54 B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers were dispatched from British Ceylon, of which 39 reached the Palembang area. Attempts to bomb the oil refinery were largely unsuccessful; only a single building was confirmed destroyed. Mines dropped in the river connecting Palembang to the sea sank three ships and damaged two others. The Japanese failed to destroy any of the aircraft, but one B-29 ditched when it ran out of fuel. British air and naval forces provided search-and-rescue support for the bombers. This was the only US raid on these strategically important oil facilities, but they were attacked by aircraft from British aircraft carriers in January 1945. (Full article...)
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Hi Nick-D and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:19, 28 September 2020 (UTC)