MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 68

 

1. Date:  15 April 1945
                
2. Code Name:  Brisket # 1
    
3. Target:  Kawasaki Urban Area   (90.17-3604)
    
4. Participating Units:  313th and 314th Bombardment Wings.
    
5. Number A/C Airborne:  219
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary:  89%  (194 primary   and 8 opportunity)
    
7. Time Over Primary:  152343K   - 160155K
    
8. Altitude of Attack:  6,420 - 10,020
    
9. Weather Over Target:  clear to 3/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost:  12
     
11. Resume of Mission: Bombing results: 80,920,000 square feet or 2.9 square miles   destroyed.  Eight aircraft mission to reasons unknown, Seventeen aircraft non-effective.  Enemy air opposition moderate to heavy, aggressive  -279 sighted 53 attacks.  Observations from crew interrogations show numerous B-29's going down in flames over Target, A/A heavy, meager to intense, inaccurate to accurate.  Average bomb load 313th Wing, 14,985 lbs. and 314th Wing 9659 lbs.  Average fuel reserve, 313th Wing 1065 gallons and 314th Wing 1060 gallons.

 

 

  

    

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