MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 34
- Date: 15 February
1945
- Code Name: Eradicate
# 4
- Target: Nagoya (193)
- Mitsubishi Engine Plant
- Participating Units:
73rd BW and 313th BW
- Number A/C Airborne:
117
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
28% (33 Primary, 0 Secondary, 54 Last Resort, 16 Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
151502K - 151555K
- Altitude of Attack:
25,300 - 34,000
- Weather Over Target:
CAVU to 3/10
- Total A/C Lost: 1
- Resume of Mission:
Bombing results - 203,000 square feet destroyed or damaged. 5.4% of
total rood area. Severe weather en route caused formations to break
up. Sixteen early returns. One aircraft ditched on return. Enemy
air opposition weak - 166 attacks. Enemy aircraft destroyed seven,
probably destroyed eight and damaged twenty-three. AA meager to
moderate, inaccurate to accurate. Average bomb load: 6,000 lbs. for
the 73rd BW, 5,000 lbs. for the 313th BW. Average gas reserve:
1,191 gallons. Fifty-four aircraft Hamamatsu - 2,000,000
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