MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 330
- Date:
14/15 August 1945
- Target:
Isesaki Urban Area (
90.13 )
-
Participating Units:
73rd BW and 314th BW
- Number A/C
Airborne: 93
- % A/C
Bombing Primary: 92.47%
(86 Primary and 2 Opportunity)
- Type of
Bombs and Fuzes: M19,
500# incendiary cluster set to open 5,000 feet over the Target and
M-47, 100# incendiary bombs fuzed with instantaneous nose.
- Tons of
Bombs Dropped: 614.1
tons on Primary and 11 tons on Opportunity.
- Time Over
Primary: 150108K -
150315K
- Altitude
of Attack: 15,450 -
18,200
- Weather
Over Target: 7/10 -
10/10
- Total A/C
Lost: 0
- Resume of
Mission: Results
reported were unobserved to excellent. Five A/C were
non-effective. Seventeen A/C bombed visually and 69 by radar. Flak
was heavy and A/W caliber meager and inaccurate. Four E/A sighted
did not attack. Six B-29s landed at Iwo Jima. Average bomb load:
14,924 lbs. Average fuel reserve: 648 gallons.
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