MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 303

 

1. Date: 28/29 July 1945
    
2. Target: Shimotsu Oil Refinery (XXI 5046)
    
3. Participating Unit: 315 BW
    
4. Number A/C Airborne: 82
    
5. % A/C Bombing Primary: 92.68% (76 Primary and 1 Opportunity)
    
6. Type of Bombs and Fuzes: AN-M64, 500# G.P. with 1/10 sec. delay nose and non-delay tail. 
    
7. Tons of Bombs Dropped: 658.3 tons on Primary and 16.7 tons on Opportunity. 
    
8. Time Over Primary: 282302K - 290123K
     
9. Altitude of Attack: 10,100 - 12,000
    
10. Weather Over Target: 4/10 - 10/10
     
11. Total A/C Lost: 0 
     
12. Resume of Mission: Bombing results were unobserved.  All bombing was by radar.  Five A/C were non-effective.  Twelve E/A sighted made no attacks.  Flak was heavy, meager, inaccurate to accurate.  One B-29 was damaged by flak.  Two Wind-Run A/C were A/B.  Two A/C that bombed Primary also bombed Opportunity.  Two B-29s landed at Iwo Jima.  Average bomb load: 18,375 lbs. Average fuel reserve: 1,145 gallons. 

 

        

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