MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 197
- Date:
10 June 1945
- Target:
Nakajima Aircraft Co.
at Musashino (PV) (90.17-357)
-
Participating Unit: 73rd
Bombardment Wing
- Number A/C
Airborne: 124
- % A/C
Bombing Primary: (PR)
95.11% (118 radar and 2 opportunity)
- Type of
Bombs and Fuzes:
AN-M66, 2000#, general purpose, and variable delay 1/40 sec. delay
tail
- Tons of
Bombs Dropped: 807 tons
on primary radar and 14 on opportunity
- Time Over
Primary: (PR) 0957K -
1038K
- Altitude
of Attack: 19,600 -
21,200 feet
- Weather
Over Target: 2/10 -
3/10
- Total A/C
Lost: 0
- Resume of
Mission: Strike report
photographs indicated excellent bombing results, with approximately
85 per cent of Target destroyed. Reinforced concrete buildings at
center of eastern edge of Target sustained at least 10 direct hits.
Internal damage impossible to assess, but it is believed to be
severe. All other buildings gutted or destroyed. Flak (at radar)
was heavy, meager to moderate, and occasionally accurate. Flak
damaged 19 B-29’s. Approximately 50 P-51’s met the first B-29
groups over Aoga Shima and escorted them to Target area. Forty-five
E/A sighted made 41 attacks. Claims not available. Eighteen B-29’s
landed at Iwo Jima. Average Bomb Load: 14,352 lbs. Average Fuel
Reserve: 631 gallons.
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