MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 183
- Date: 25 May 1945
- Target: Tokyo Urban
Area
- Participating Units:
58th, 73rd, 313th, and 314th Wings
- Number A/C Airborne:
498
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
92.8% (464 primary and 6 opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
252338K – 260213K
- Altitude of Attack:
7,915 – 22,000
- Weather Over Target:
1/10 – 9/10
- Total A/C Lost: 26
- Resume of Mission:
Aircraft dropped a total of 3362 tons of incendiary bombs on the
Target with excellent results. This mission and Mission No. 181
accounted for 18.6 square miles of area burned out. Twenty-eight
A/C were non-effective. Enemy A/A, which was heavy and medium,
moderate to intense, destroyed 3 B-29’s and combined with E/AC to
down another: 2 planes were abandoned year Iwo Jima, and 20 B-29s
were lost to unknown reasons. A/A damaged 89 B-29’s and combined
with A/C damaged 11 more. E/A damaged 10 planes. Sixty E/A sighted
made 99 attacks. Claims were 19-0-4. Average bomb load: 13,517
lbs. Average fuel reserve: 794 gallons.
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