MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 34

 

1. Date: 15 February 1945
    
2. Code Name: Eradicate # 4
    
3. Target: Nagoya (193) - Mitsubishi Engine Plant
    
4. Participating Units: 73rd BW and 313th BW
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 117
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 28% (33 Primary, 0 Secondary, 54 Last Resort, 16 Opportunity)
    
7. Time Over Primary: 151502K - 151555K
    
8. Altitude of Attack: 25,300 - 34,000
    
9. Weather Over Target: CAVU to 3/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 1 
     
11. Resume of Mission: Bombing results - 203,000 square feet destroyed or damaged.  5.4% of total rood area.  Severe weather en route caused formations to break up.  Sixteen early returns.  One aircraft ditched on return.  Enemy air opposition weak - 166 attacks.  Enemy aircraft destroyed seven, probably destroyed eight and damaged twenty-three.  AA meager to moderate, inaccurate to accurate.  Average bomb load: 6,000 lbs. for the 73rd BW, 5,000 lbs. for the 313th BW.  Average gas reserve: 1,191 gallons.  Fifty-four aircraft Hamamatsu - 2,000,000 

 

  

  

  

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