MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 188
- Date: 15 June 1945
- Target: Kobe Urban
Area (90.25-11)
- Participating Units:
58th, 73rd, 313th, and 314th Bombardment Wings
- Number A/C Airborne:
530 (including 7 Super Dumbos)
- % Aircraft Bombing
Primary: 89.87% (473 primary and 8 opportunity)
- Type of Bombs and Fuzes:
E-46, Non-delay nose and varied delay tails:
T4E4, varied delay nose and non-delay tail: AN-M47A2, instantaneous
nose and non-delay tails, and M17-A1m 24 sec. nose and non-delay
tail.
- Tons of Bombs Dropped:
3079.1 primary and 54.7 opportunity
- Time Over Primary:
050822K - 050947K
- Altitude of Attack:
13,650 - 18,800 feet
- Weather Over Target:
0/10 - 8/10
- Total A/C Lost: 11
- Resume of Mission:
About 3.8 square miles of the city were destroyed and about ½ square
mile east of Kobe. Nine numbered industrial Targets were damaged.
Total damage to city is 8 square miles, about 51% of the built-up
portion of the city. Of the B-29’s lost, 3 were due to E/AC, 3 to
enemy A/A, 1 crashed at Iwo Jima, and 1 to unknown causes. 49 A/C
were non-effective. The 125 E/AC sighted made 672 attacks. Claims
were 86-31-78. E/AA was heavy, meager to intense, generally
accurate, and damaged 139 B-29’s. Forty-three A/C landed at Iwo
Jima. Average Bomb Load: 13,178 lbs. Average Fuel Reserve: 677
gallons.
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