MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 164
- Date:
10 May 1945
- Code
Name: Rotative #1
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Target: Tokuyama Coal Yard 90.32-674
Kure Naval Arsenal 90.30-657A
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Participating Unit: 73rd Bombardment
Wing
- Number A/C Airborne:
63
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
88.48% (56 primary and 1 opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
101107K - 101120K
- Altitude of Attack:
18,700 - 21,080
- Weather Over Target:
2/10
- Total A/C Lost: 0
- Resume of Mission:
Crews reported large columns of smoke interfered with damage
evaluation. Concentration of hits seen on jetty with majority of
bombs falling in Target area. Five E/A sighted made no attacks. No
claims. Flak was heavy, meager, and in-accurate. Enemy A/A damaged
7 B-29’s. Four A/C landed at Iwo Jima. Six A/C were
non-effective. Average Bomb Load: 10,395 lbs. Average Fuel
reserve: 723 gallons.
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