MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 124
- Date: 29 April 1945
- Code Name: Checkbook
#9
- Target: Kanoya A/F
90.38-1378
- Participating Unit:
314th Bombardment Wing
- Number A/C Airborne:
20
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
90% (18 A/C)
- Time Over Primary:
290925K - 29O936K
- Altitude of Attack:
17,500 - 18,500
- Weather Over Target:
0/10 - 1/10
- Total A/C Lost: 0
- Resume of Mission:
Bombing results good - bombs were dropped in good patterns. Two
concentrations of bursts about 2000 ft wide covered both runways.
Nineteen aircraft sighted and made fifteen attacks. AA heavy,
meager and inaccurate. Average bomb load 10,700 lbs. Average gas
reserve 700 gallons.
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