MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 16
- Date: 27 December
1944
- Code Name: Tokyo
(357) - Nakajima A/C Plant, Musashino
- Participating Unit:
73rd BW
- Number A/C Airborne:
72
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
54% (39 Primary, 9 Secondary, 4 Last Resort, and Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
271342K - 271503K
- Altitude of Attack:
28,800 - 33,800
- Weather Over Target:
2/10
- Total A/C Lost: 3
- Resume of Mission:
Bombing results poor. Six hits within 1,000 feet of AP. Results
unobserved on Secondary, Last Resort, and Opportunity Targets.
Twenty-two early returns. One aircraft ditched on return. Enemy
air opposition moderate to heavy, inaggressive to aggressive - 272
attacks with twenty-one destroyed, ten probably destroyed and seven
damaged. AA meager to intense, generally inaccurate. Average bomb
load: 5,500 lbs. Average gas reserve: 1,200 gallons.
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