MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 30

 

1. Date: 11 February 1945
    
2. Code Name: Sea Search # 1
    
3. Target: 60 miles each side L 135 degrees east - 148 degrees east L 30 degrees north
    
4. Participating Unit: 313th BW
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 9
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 88% (8 A/C)
    
7. Time Over Search Area: 111518K (ETA over search area)
    
8. Altitude: 3,000 feet
    
9. Weather Over Target: 10/10 overcast
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 0
     
11. Resume of Mission: Nine aircraft to search for enemy picket boats.  One early return.  Search area 10/10 overcast radar used.  AA - Sofu-Gan heavy, meager and inaccurate.  Enemy convoy -  heavy, meager and inaccurate.  No enemy fighter opposition.  Enemy convoy of 4 DD, 2 tankers, and 5 freighters sighted at 29 degrees, 29 minutes north - 140 degrees 20 minutes east.  No bomb load.  Average gas reserve: unavailable. 

 

  

  

  

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