| DATE:
June 7, 1945
TARGET:
CITY OF OSAKA
TIME:
Daylight
Briefing
was at nineteen hundred. Ate chow at twenty-four-thirty
(2430), and then started to the airplane to check the
guns and ammo. We took off at o-four-forty five (0445).
We
reached the assembly point and joined up with four other
ships from the sixty squadron. Then after flying all around
the Jap homeland, we finally headed for the target and
dropped our thirty-seven (37) bombs at an altitude of
twenty thousand (20,000) feet. Over the target area there
were from fifteen to twenty bursts of flak, including
about five phosphorous bombs, which I hate to see. There
were about two or three fighters up to intercept us, but
they did not do any damage.
Finally
we left the Jap mainland and started hack to Guam, landing
home at about twenty-one hundred (2100). So far we have
been rather lucky.
DATE:
June 10, 1945
TARGET: CITY OF CHIBA - AIRCRAFT PLANT
TIME: Daylight
For
this mission we briefed at nineteen hundred (1900). We
went out to the plane at twenty-two thirty, and then took
off at o-one-fifteen (0115).
We
headed for the assembly point, but as usual it and the
target both were socked in. So we had to bomb by radar
at an altitude of about fifteen thousand (15,000) feet.
We cut loose with a load of twenty-three (23) five hundred-pound
general-purpose bombs of Composition B, a very high explosive
bomb. Being as it was so cloudy was probably the reason
there was no flak and no fighters.
After
leaving the target we head for Guam and landed at sixteen-fifteen
(1650).
DATE:
June 10, 1945
TARGET: CITY OF NOBEOKA
TIME: Night
Briefed
at fourteen hundred (1400). Ate chow, then went to the
airplane, and prepared everything for take-off, which
was at eighteen-o-three (1803).
This
was something new they were trying out taking pictures
of targets as they appear on the radar scope. We did it
before on our bombing missions and obtained some fine
pictures. So they decided to have us do nothing but take
scope pictures. On all of these missions we fly over the
targets all by our lonely.
The
weather up to the target was cloudy and rather rough,
but we came through it O. K. At the target we made three
picture runs on the target and took some good pictures.
We
had no interference on this trip from fighters or flak,
and neither were there an spotlights on us turned on us.
Probably the reason we had no inference was because of
the cloud cover.
We
left the target about o-two-fifteen and landed here at Guam
about seven or eight hours later. |
