MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 63

 

1. Date: 12 April 1945
    
2. Code Name: Enkindle #8
    
3. Target: Nakajima A/C Factory, Tokyo 90.17-357
    
4. Participating Units: 73rd Bombardment Wing
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 114
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 82.5% (93 primary, 11 secondary and 13 opportunity)
    
7. Time Over Primary: 121208K  - 12122IK
    
8. Altitude of Attack: 12,000  - 17,500
    
9. Weather Over Target: Thick haze  - 2/10 cumulus
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 0
     
11. Resume of Mission:  Bombing results: Damage resulting from missions 58 and 63 amounts to 886,900 square feet or 48.2% of total roof area.  Damage mostly in Eastern Section of plant - 1,075,500 square feet or 94% of roof area, western section has 71,000 square feet or 10.1% of roof area destroyed or damaged.  Total damage to Date to 357 is   1,146,500 square feet or 62.6% of total roof area.  Damage resulting to the Shizuoka A/C Engine Plant  (90.18-2011) amounts to 823,000 square feet or 86% of the total roof area of the Target proper.  Four aircraft not included in above totals airborne as navigational escort to approximately 90 P-51's.  Seven aircraft non-effective.  Enemy air opposition moderate - 105 attacks.  Enemy aircraft destroyed eleven, probably destroyed two and ten damaged, P-51's claim twenty aircraft destroyed.  AA heavy, moderate to intense, generally accurate.  Four P-51's lost - one pilot rescued.  Average bomb load 10,762 lbs.  Average gas reserve 532 gallons.

 

 

  

    

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