MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 43

 

1. Date: 16 March 1945
    
2. Code Name: Middleman #2
    
3. Target: Kobe Urban Area
    
4. Participating Units: 73rd, 313th and 314th Bombardment Wings
    
5. Number A/C Airborne:  330
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 93% (305 Primary, 0 Secondary and 3 Last Resort and Opportunity)
    
7. Time Over Primary:  170338K - 170546K
    
8. Altitude of Attack: 4600-9000
    
9. Weather Over Target: 1/10 - 3/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 3
     
11. Resume of Mission: 85,458,000 square feet (1920 acres or 3.0 square miles) destroyed.  Twenty-one aircraft non-effective.  Three aircraft lost to reasons unknown, enemy fighter opposition medium to heavy, unaggressive  - 93 attacks.  AA medium to heavy, meager to intense, inaccurate.  Average bomb load 14,931 lbs.  Average gas reserve 889 gallons.

 

 

  

    

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