MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 17

 

  1. Date: 3 January 1945
     
  2. Code Name: Microscope # 1
     
  3. Target: Nagoya City - Docks and Urban Areas
     
  4. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
     
  5. Number A/C Airborne: 97
     
  6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 59% (57 Primary, 0 Secondary, 21 Last Resort and Opportunity)
     
  7. Time Over Primary: 031545K - 31633K
     
  8. Altitude of Attack: 28,200 - 31,500
     
  9. Weather Over Target: 6/10
     
  10. Total A/C Lost: 5
     
  1. Resume of Mission: Bombing results fair - 140,000 square feet destroyed and 75 fires started.  Eighteen early returns.  One aircraft lost to enemy aircraft, three aircraft lost to unknown causes and one aircraft ditched on return.  Enemy air opposition moderate to heavy, unaggressive to aggressive - 346 attacks with fourteen destroyed, fourteen probably destroyed and twenty damaged.  AA meager - accurate.  Average bomb load: 5,300 lbs. Average gas reserve: 761 gallons. 

 

  

  

 

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