MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 8

 

  1. Date: 27 November 1944
     
  2. Code Name: Sand Antonio # 2
     
  3. Target: Primary - Musashino Plant, Nakajima A/C Factory Tokyo (357) Secondary - Urban and Dock Area Tokyo
     
  4. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
     
  5. Number A/C Airborne: 81
     
  6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 0 Primary, 49 Secondary
     
  7. Time Over Primary: Secondary - 271347K - 271525K Opportunity - 271420K - 271423K
     
  8. Altitude of Attack: Secondary - 27,700 - 34,000 Opportunity - 32,000
     
  9. Weather Over Target: 10/10
     
  10. Total A/C Lost: 1
     
  1. Resume of Mission: Bombing results unobserved.  Primary completely obscured.  Forty-nine aircraft bombed secondary Target by radar.  Seven aircraft bombed Hamamatsu.  While this mission was being flown nine to eleven enemy fighters attacked Isley Field.  All but one destroyed by AA and fighters.  Three B-29s destroyed, two extensively damaged, undetermined number damaged.  Nineteen aircraft non-effective.  One aircraft ditched on return to base, 12 crew members missing.  Enemy air opposition and flak nil.  Average bomb load: 10,000 lbs. Average gas reserve: 1,093 gallons. 

 

 

  

 

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