MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 29

 

  1. Date: 10 February 1945
     
  2. Code Name: Fraction # 1
     
  3. Target: Tokyo (1544) - Nakajima Aircraft Plant, Ota
     
  4. Participating Units: 73rd BW and 313th BW
     
  5. Number A/C Airborne: 120
     
  6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 70% (84 Primary, 0 Secondary, 16 Last Resort and Opportunity)
     
  7. Time Over Primary: 101605K - 101641K
     
  8. Altitude of Attack: 26,000 - 29,400
     
  9. Weather Over Target: 1/10 - 2/10
     
  10. Total A/C Lost: 12
     
  11. Resume of Mission: Two aircraft included in the above total were dispatched as a diversionary force against Hamamatsu.  Damage assessment revealed 755,900 square feet of roof area damaged in Target area.  Eighteen aircraft returned early.  One aircraft was lost to enemy action, one aircraft crashed on take-off, two aircraft collided in mid-air, seven aircraft ditched and one aircraft missing to unknown reasons.  Enemy air opposition moderate to strong - 330 attacks.  Enemy aircraft destroyed twenty-one, probably destroyed fifteen and twenty-six damaged.  AA weak and inaccurate.  Average bomb load: 6,522 lbs - 73rd Wing - and 5,317 lbs - 313th Wing.  Aver- age gas reserve: 576 gallons. 

 

  

  

  

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