MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 165
- Date:
10 May 1945
- Code
Name: Fainter #1
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Target: Otake Oil Refinery
90.30-2121
Kure Urban Area
(Secondary)
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Participating Unit: 314th Bombardment
Wing
- Number A/C Airborne:
132
- % A/C Bombing Primary:
74% (112 primary and 14 opportunity)
- Time Over Target:
101048K - 101114K
- Altitude of Attack:
14,620 – 19,700
- Weather Over Target:
0/10
- Total A/C Lost: 1
- Resume of Mission.
First photographs showed concentration of bursts in Target. The A/C
lost, crashed on landing at North Field, Guam. No casualties. Six
A/C were non-effective. 39 E/A sighted made 54 attacks and damaged
1 B-29. Claims 3-2-8. Flak was heavy, meager, and inaccurate. A/A
damaged 19 B-29’s. Twelve A/C landed at Iwo Jima. Average Bomb
Load: 10,862 lbs. Average Fuel Reserve: 683 gallons.
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