| DATE:
July 29, 1945
TARGET:
CITIES OF YAWATA, KOKURA and HIROSHIMA
TIME:
Night
Briefed
at two-thirty and took off at four-thirty. The tip up
as far as Iwo Jima was 0. K. We had to stop there to get
the turbos fixed. They were acting up. Instead of fixing
it in a few hours, it took them eleven hours. Therefore,
we had to stay over at Iwo all the next day-which was
not too bad. We then took off again that night at ten-thirty,
and again headed for Japan.
We
climbed to twenty-eight thousand feet and went over both
targets at this altitude. The first target was supposed
to be one of the roughest targets in the Empire. But,
again, we were lucky and didn't see any flak, fighters,
or spotlights.
After
leaving the Empire we dropped down to fifteen thousand feet
and flew the remainder of the distance back to Guam at that
altitude. We arrived here at eleven o'clock on the thirty-first
day of July.
DATE:
August 2, 1945
TARGET: CITIES OF NAGAOKA, AKITA, and MIYAKO
TIME: Night
Briefed
at two o'clock and then ate and went out to the plane.
Take-off was scheduled for four-thirty but was delayed
an hour because of the radio not working.
The
trip up was 0. K. By that, I mean there was no rough weather.
The weather over the target was good also except for a
few low-hanging clouds.
There
was no flak, fighters, or spotlights over the targets. The
only thing we saw were the towns burning from the mission
the night before. The towns were TOYAMA and AKITA and they
both were burning fine. Just like tinder-boxes.
We returned to Guam at eleven forty-five. Another eighteen-hour
mission.
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