MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 45
- Date: 24 March 1945
- Code Name: Eradicate
#5
- Target: Nagoya,
Mitsubishi Engine Plant (193)
- Participating Units:
73rd, 3l3th and 314th Bombardment Wings
- Number A/C Airborne:
248
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
90% (223 primary, 0 Secondary, 3 Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
250100K - 250217K
- Altitude of Attack:
5,660 - 9,800
- Weather Over Target:
3/10 - 5/10
- Total A/C Lost: 5
- Resume of Mission:
One aircraft included in total airborne as observation photo mission
and to direct any change in tactics necessary. 173,500 square feet
additional damage to Target 193. 8,053,800 square feet of Urban
Nagoya destroyed. Fifty one buildings of Chigusa Factory, Nagoya
Arsenal (196) destroyed: 502,000 square feet of Mitsubishi Electric
Company (254) destroyed or damaged: 129.000 square feet of Torimatsu
Factory, Nagoya Arsenal (200) destroyed or damaged. Kureha Textile
Mill totally destroyed approximately 350,000 square feet: Asashi
Pottery Works totally destroyed -approximately 474,000 square feet.
One aircraft, lost to flak over Target, one aircraft ditched on way
to Target and three aircraft missing to unknown reasons. Twenty two
aircraft non-effective. Enemy air opposition weak, no claims, AA
heavy, meager to intense, inaccurate to accurate. Average bomb load
16,957 lbs, 73rd Wing, 15,330 lbs, 313th Wing and 8,784 lbs. 314th
Wing. Average gas reserve 1021 gallons.
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