MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 26
- Date: 4 February
1945
- Code Name: Middleman
# 1
- Target: Kobe Area
(90.25) - Kobe Urban Area
- Participating Units:
73rd BW and 313th BW
- Number A/C Airborne:
110
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
57% (69 Primary, 0 Secondary, 30 Last Resort and Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
041557K - 041656K
- Altitude of Attack:
24,500 - 27,000
- Weather Over Target:
5/10 - 6/10
- Total A/C Lost: 2
- Resume of Mission:
2,651,000 square feet of the Target area was destroyed or damaged.
Fifteen aircraft bombed Natsuzka and fifteen aircraft bombed various
Last Resort Targets. One aircraft ditched on return and one
aircraft burned after landing at home base classified as lost to
survey. Enemy air opposition heavy and aggressive - 273 attacks.
Enemy aircraft destroyed four, probably destroyed twenty and
thirty-nine damaged. AA heavy, moderate too intense, inaccurate to
accurate. Average bomb load: 6,830 lbs. Average gas reserve: 696
gallons.
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