MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 9

 

1. Date: 29 November 1944
    
2. Code Name: Brooklyn # 1
    
3. Target: Primary - Industrial Area Tokyo Secondary - None Last Resort - Any Industrial City
    
4. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 29
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 79% (Primary 23, Last Resort 2)
    
7. Time Over Primary: Primary - 300050K - 300527K Last Resort - 300108K - 300157K
    
8. Altitude of Attack: Primary - 25,000 - 33,200 Last Resort - 21,000 - 33,200
    
9. Weather Over Target: Primary - 10/10 Last Resort - 10/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 1
     

11. Resume of Mission: Bombed by radar results unknown.  Last resort Targets Yokohama and Numozu.  Four aircraft were non-effective.  One aircraft missing to unknown reasons.  AA heavy, meager to inaccurate.  Enemy air opposition slight - five attacks.  Average bomb load: 7,000 lbs. Average gas reserve: 1,238 gallons. 

 

 

  

 

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