MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 22
- Date: 23 January
1945
- Code Name: Eradicate
# 3
- Target: Nagoya (193)
- Mitsubishi Engine Plant
- Participating Unit:
73rd BW
- Number A/C Airborne:
73
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
38% (28 Primary, 27 Secondary, 5 Last Resort and Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
230535K - 230547K
- Altitude of Attack:
25,300 - 27,200
- Weather Over Target:
9/10 - 10/10
- Total A/C Lost: 2
- Resume of Mission:
Bombing results unsatisfactory. Due to weather twenty-seven
aircraft bombed Urban area of Nagoya. Thirteen early returns. One
aircraft ditched just after take-off' and one aircraft lost to enemy
aircraft and AA. Enemy fighter opposition heavy and aggressive -
691 attacks. Enemy air- craft destroyed thirty-three, probably
destroyed twenty-two and damaged forty. AA heavy, meager to
moderate, inaccurate to accurate. Average bomb load: 6,000 lbs.
Average gas reserve: 1,053 gallons.
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