MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 58
- Date: 7 April 1945
- Code Name: Enkindle
#7
- Target: Nakajima
A/C Plant, Tokyo 90.17-357
- Participating Units:
73rd Bombardment Wing
- Number A/C Airborne:
107
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
94% (101 primary, 2 Opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
071100K - 071106K
- Altitude of Attack:
11,500 - 15,550
- Weather Over Target:
CAVU - 2/10
- Total A/C Lost: 3
- Resume of Mission:
Bombing results- see mission 63 for details. Four aircraft
non-effective. Two aircraft lost to flak and one aircraft lost to
air to air bombing. First mission to have friendly fighter
escort - approximately 97 P-51's escorted formations. Escort
efficient in breaking up enemy aircraft concentrations. Enemy
fighter opposition heavy, aggressive to very aggressive - 531
attacks. Enemy aircraft destroyed 80, probably destroyed 23 and
fifty damaged. Crews reported that P-51's destroyed 21 enemy
aircraft. Report may contain some duplication. Two P-51's
lost. AA heavy, moderate to intense, accurate to very accurate.
Three aircraft airborne as navigational escort to fighters not
included in above totals. Average bomb load 10,275 lbs. Average
gas reserve 547 gallons.
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