MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 183

 

  1. Date:  25 May 1945
     
  1. Target:  Tokyo Urban Area
     
  1. Participating Units:  58th, 73rd, 313th, and 314th Wings
     
  1. Number A/C Airborne:  498
     
  1. % A/C Bombing Primary:  92.8% (464 primary and 6 opportunity)
     
  1. Time Over Primary:  252338K – 260213K
     
  1. Altitude of Attack:  7,915 – 22,000
     
  1. Weather Over Target:  1/10 – 9/10
     
  1. Total A/C Lost:  26
     
  1. 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.

 

 

   

 

Next Mission