MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Number 128

 

1. Date:   30 April 1945
    
2. Code Name: Famish #6
    
3. Target:  Kanoya East A/F    90.38-8516
    
4. Participating Unit: 314th Bombardment Wing
    
5. Number A/C Airborne: 11
    
6. % A/C Bombing Primary: 91%    (10 A/C)
    
7. Time Over Primary: 301138K
    
8. Altitude of Attack: 17,100
    
9. Weather Over Target: 0/10
    
10. Total A/C Lost: 0
     
11. Resume of Mission: Bombing results unobserved to good.  An area of bursts approximately 2000 feet covered the west edge of the airfield and hit the west end of the runway.  Fighter opposition consisted of sixteen enemy aircraft sighted making fifty attacks.  Enemy aircraft destroyed two, probably destroyed one and two damaged.  AA meager, moderate, inaccurate to accurate.  Average bomb load 11,877 lbs.  Average gas reserve 781 gallons.

 

 

 

  

    

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