MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 4
- Date: 5 November
1944
- Code Name: Iwo
Jima
- Target: Two
airfields at Iwo Jima
- Participating Unit:
73rd BW
- Number A/C Airborne:
36
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
67% (24)
- Time Over Primary:
051623K - 051639K
- Altitude of Attack:
26,750 - 27,500
- Weather Over Target:
9/10 - 10/10
- Total A/C Lost: 0
- Resume of Mission:
Shakedown mission. Mission planned to give training in daylight
visual bombing and test of night landing facilities at base. Two
aircraft non-effective. Ten aircraft reaching Target were
ineffective due to malfunction of bomb bay doors on lead aircraft.
Bombs dropped at various intervals beyond Target. No enemy air
opposition. AA heavy, meager to inaccurate. Bombing results poor.
Average bomb load: 10,000 pounds. Ave- rage gas reserve: 1,409
gallons.
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