MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 38

 

1. Date: 25 February 1945
    
2. Code Name: Meetinghouse #1
    
3. Target: Tokyo Urban Area
    
4. Participating Units: 73rd, 313th and 314th Bombardment Wings
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 229
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 75% (172 primary, 0 Secondary, 28   last Resort and 1 Opportunity)
    
7. Time Over Primary: 251458K - 251652K
    
8. Altitude of Attack: 23,500 - 31,000
    
9. Weather Over Target: 10/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 3
     
11. Resume of Mission: First three wing strike, 28,000,000 square feet of urban area destroyed.  Twenty eight non-effective.  Two aircraft collided at wing assembly point and one aircraft lost to survey.  Enemy air opposition nil.  AA meager and inaccurate.  Average bomb-load 7,065 lbs. 73rd Wing, 5,147 lbs.  313th Wing and 3944 lbs.  314th Wing.  Average gas reserve 883 gallons.

 

 

  

    

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