MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 67

 

  1. Date:  13 April 1945
     
  2. Code Name:  Perdition # 1
     
  3. Target:  Tokyo Arsenal Area, Tokyo  90.17-201-309
     
  4. Participating Units:  73rd, 313th and 314th Bombardment Wings
     
  5. Number A/C Airborne: 348
     
  6. % A/C Bombing Primary:  94.3%   (327 primary and 3 opportunity)
     
  7. Time Over Primary:  132357K  - 140336K
     
  8. Altitude of Attack:  4750 - 11,000
     
  9. Weather Over Target:  Clear-visibility unrestricted except for smoke rising from fires.
     
  10. Total A/C Lost:  7
     
  11. Resume of Mission:  Bombing results: Excellent 296,000,000 square feet - 10.7 square miles, 6,850 acres destroyed.  Eighteen aircraft non-effective.  Six aircraft missing to unknown reasons and one aircraft ditched on return.  Enemy air opposition - moderate 102 attacks l/3 aggressive.  Enemy aircraft destroyed six, probably destroyed none and two damaged.  A/A heavy and medium, meager to intense, inaccurate to accurate.  Average bomb load 73rd Wing, 16,887 lbs., 313th Wing 15,125 lbs., and 314 Wing, 9,409 lbs.  Average fuel reserve 73rd Wing, 779 gallons, 313th Wing, 1006 gallons, and   314th Wing 1153 gallons.

 

 

  

    

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