MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 22

 

  1. Date: 23 January 1945
     
  2. Code Name: Eradicate # 3
     
  3. Target: Nagoya (193) - Mitsubishi Engine Plant
     
  4. Participating Unit: 73rd BW
     
  5. Number A/C Airborne: 73
     
  6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 38% (28 Primary, 27 Secondary, 5 Last Resort and Opportunity)
     
  7. Time Over Primary: 230535K - 230547K
     
  8. Altitude of Attack: 25,300 - 27,200
     
  9. Weather Over Target: 9/10 - 10/10
     
  10. Total A/C Lost: 2
     
  11. 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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