MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 258
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Date:
9/10 July 1945
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Target:
Sakai Urban Area
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Participating Unit:
73rd Bombardment Wing
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Number A/C Airborne:
124
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% A/C Bombing Primary:
92.74% (115 primary
& 3 opportunity)
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Type of Bombs and Fuzes:
AN-M47A2, 100# incendiary bomb with instantaneous nose fuse:
and, E36 and E46, 500# incendiary clusters set with nose & tail to
open 5000 feet above
Target.
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Tons of Bombs Dropped:
778.9 tons on primary and 19.6 on opportunity.
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Time Over Primary:
100233K - 100406K
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Altitude of Attack:
10,000 - 11,350 feet
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Weather Over Target:
1/10
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Total A/C Lost:
0
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Resume of Mission:
Strike photos showed well concentrated fires in the city,
with a brisk ground wind from the NE.
Crews reported glow of fires visible nearly 200 miles.
Smoke columns were up to over 17,000 feet.
The Target was
visible to only 5 A/C. 6 A/C
were non-effective. 15 E/A
sighted made 5 attacks. One
possible air-to-air phosphorous burst met over Target.
Flak was heavy and medium, meager to moderate, inaccurate,
barrage and continuously pointed.
Approximately 20 S/L’s in Target area.
Flak damaged 5 B-29’s.
One A/C, not included in A/B preceded main force to transmit
weather information. Dropped
6.3 tons on Target.
Two A/C landed at Iwo
Jima. Average Bomb Load:
13,972 lbs. Average
Fuel Reserve: 812 gallons.
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