MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 299

 

1. Date: 28/29 July 1945
    
2. Target: Ichinomiya Urban Industrial Area (90.20)
    
3. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
    
4. Number A/C Airborne: 127
    
5. % A/C Bombing Primary: 96.20% (122 Primary and 2 Opportunity)
     
6. Type of Bombs and Fuzes: E46 and M17, 500# incendiary clusters set to open at 5,000 feet above Target and M47, 100# incendiary bombs with instantaneous nose. 
    
7. Tons of Bombs Dropped: 868.8 tons on Primary and 16.7 tons on Opportunity. 
    
8. Time Over Primary: 282356K - 290148K
    
9. Altitude of Attack: 13,500 - 16,700
    
10. Weather Over Target: 4/10 - 8/10
     
11. Total A/C Lost: 0 
     
12. Resume of Mission: Early photos revealed many large fires in center of city.  Twenty-six A/C bombed visually and 96 by radar.  Three A/C were non-effective.  Nineteen E/A sighted made 14 attacks and damaged 4 B-29s.  No claims.  Flak was heavy, meager, inaccurate, barrage and continuously pointed.  Approximately 20 S/L's were seen.  Seven B-29s landed at Iwo Jima.  Average bomb load: 14,833 lbs. Average fuel reserve: 758 gallons. 

 

 

        

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