This page focuses on Navigation coordinates and altitude(s) to and from the target.

The first three are from the 73rd BW Mission Report and
the last from XXI Bomber Command.

The fourth table is 499th Bomb Group Bombing Data.
V-5 ( 42-63513 ) is not in this list.

For this mission, there were no formations.

The B-29s bombed in single file over a period of one hour.
The time when bombs were dropped from
each B-29 is noted in the table

At bottom is the notation " General's Aircraft "
This is Terrible Terry, assigned to Headquarters 73rd Bomb Wing

Some of these documents have the words
Initial Point (IP).

This is the location
where the bombing run begins

73RD BOMB WING
FIELD ORDER NUMBER 79 CONTINUED
NAVIGATION AND ALTITUDES

 

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73RD BOMB WING
CONSOLIDATED NAVIGATION DATA
497TH AND 498TH BOMB GROUPS

 

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73RD BOMB WING
CONSOLIDATED NAVIGATION DATA
499TH AND 500TH BOMB GROUPS

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XXI BOMCCOM
FRAGMENTARY COMBAT ORDER
MEETINGHOUSE BAKER

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499TH BOMB GROUP
BOMBING DATA

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