MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 38
- Date: 25 February
1945
- Code Name:
Meetinghouse #1
- Target: Tokyo Urban
Area
- Participating Units:
73rd, 313th and 314th Bombardment Wings
- Number A/C Airborne:
229
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
75% (172 primary, 0 Secondary, 28 last Resort and 1 Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
251458K - 251652K
- Altitude of Attack:
23,500 - 31,000
- Weather Over Target:
10/10
- Total A/C Lost: 3
- Resume of Mission:
First three wing strike, 28,000,000 square feet of urban area
destroyed. Twenty eight non-effective. Two aircraft collided at
wing assembly point and one aircraft lost to survey. Enemy air
opposition nil. AA meager and inaccurate. Average bomb-load 7,065
lbs. 73rd Wing, 5,147 lbs. 313th Wing and 3944 lbs. 314th Wing.
Average gas reserve 883 gallons.
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