While these Allied aerial missions effectively disrupted Japanese military logistics in the region, they also resulted in considerable damage to the urban landscape of George Town, Penang's capital city.

In November 1944, the RAF's Strategic Air Force, based in India, was reconstituted to full operational strength with the return of the Seventh Bombardment Group and several squadrons equipped with Consolidated B-24 Liberators.

[1] The British intended to disrupt maritime traffic around the northern Strait of Malacca and prevent Axis submarine squadrons from utilising Swettenham Pier in Penang's capital, George Town.

A committee responsible for target selection in Southeast Asia suggested attacking naval installations and shipping, including George Town on account of its role as "Malaya's second harbour".

[2] An Air Command Southeast Asia (ACSEA) historian remarked that, "the mining operations were on a comparatively small scale but they paid dividends far in excess of what might have been expected from the effort involved".

[2] Following Japan's surrender, on 20 August, a De Havilland Mosquito carried out aerial reconnaissance of Penang and Taiping, departing from the Cocos Islands.

[9] After the air raid on 1 February, Lord Mountbatten directed a halt to aerial bombardments targeting naval installations in Penang and Singapore.

185 Wing, equipped with Supermarine Spitfires, Douglas C-47 Dakotas and Mosquitoes, was deployed to Penang, which had been liberated by Royal Marine commandoes two days earlier as part of Operation Jurist.

[11] The Allied air raids effectively disrupted Japanese logistics around Penang, but also resulted in "considerable damage" to George Town's urban landscape.

[2] In 1947, Resident Commissioner (predecessor to the present-day Governor position) Sydney Noel King proposed a revamp of urban planning due to the "considerable war damage" in the city.

The dispersed governmental offices caused inefficiencies in the post-war administration of Penang, which were not addressed until the completion of the Tuanku Syed Putra Building as the new seat of government in 1962.