MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Number 172
- Date: 11 May 1945
- Code Name:
Leafstalk #1
- Target: Kawanishi
A/C Plant, Kobe 90.25-1702
- Participating Units:
58th, 73rd, and 314th Bombardment Wings
- Number A/C Airborne:
102
- % A/C Bombing Primary
Target: 92% (92 primary and 1 opportunity)
- Time Over Primary:
111153K - 111103K
- Altitude of Attack:
15,700 - 20,000
- Weather Over Target:
4/10 - 8/10
- Total A/C Lost: 1
- Resume of Mission:
Strike photos showed 2 patterns of bursts in urban areas 10,000 feet
W of Target. Poor results indicated. Several near misses on E side
of Target. Hits on seaplane ramp in SE corner of Target started
fire. Nine A/C were non-effective. 314th Wing A/C lost, crashed
into ocean at take-off. All 11 crew members killed. Forty-one E/A
sighted made 261 attacks. Damaged 3 B-29’s. Claims 9-22-15. Enemy
A/A damaged twenty aircraft. Flak was heavy, meager to intense, and
accurate to inaccurate. Fourteen B-29’s landed at Iwo Jima.
Average Bomb Load: 11,313 lbs. Average Fuel Reserve: 752 gallons.
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