MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 16

 

  1. Date: 27 December 1944
     
  2. Code Name: Tokyo (357) - Nakajima A/C Plant, Musashino
     
  3. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
     
  4. Number A/C Airborne: 72
     
  5. % A/C Bombing Primary: 54% (39 Primary, 9 Secondary, 4 Last Resort, and Opportunity)
     
  6. Time Over Primary: 271342K - 271503K
     
  7. Altitude of Attack: 28,800 - 33,800
     
  8. Weather Over Target: 2/10
     
  9. Total A/C Lost: 3
     
  10. 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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