MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 270

       

  1. Date: 15/16 July 1945
     
  2. Target: Nippon Oil Co. at Kudamatsu (90.32 - 657A)
     
  3. Participating Unit: 315th BW
     
  4. Number A/C Airborne: 69
     
  5. % A/C Bombing Primary: 85.5% (59 Primary and 3 Opportunity)
     
  6. Type of Bombs and Fuzes: AN-M64 500# G.P., 1/10 delay nose and 1/100 delay tail.
      
  7. Tons of Bombs Dropped: 476.8 tons on Primary and 28.7 tons on Opportunity, 17 tons on Wind-Run. 
     
  8. Time Over Primary: 200041K - 200201K
     
  9. Altitude of Attack: 10,230 - 11,700  
     
  10. Weather Over Target: 3/10 - 10/10
     
  11. Total A/C Lost: 0
  1. Resume of Mission: Results were unobserved.  A/C bombed by radar and 7 visually.  Seven A/C were non-effective.  Thirty-two E/A sighted made no attacks.  Flak was heavy, nil to meager, and in- accurate.  Estimated 10-13 S/L's, generally ineffective, observed in Target area.  Two wind-run A/C also airborne and bombed their primary Target, Ube Coal Liquefaction Co. Five B-29s landed at Iwo Jima.  Average bomb load: 17,806 lbs. Average fuel reserve: 1,066 gallons. 

 

 

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