The complete 73rd Bomb Wing Mission #22 Report contains 278 pages.
A few of those appear within this section.
The assigned target (357) for this mission was the
Musashino Aircraft Plant in the Tokyo area.
Target 357 was a difficult one to destroy,
with typically minimal damage to the aircraft plant and
losses of many B-29s.
Due to weather conditions, none of the 55 or 56 B-29s
from the 73rd Bomb Wing bombed this target.
Another major factor in this mission was the
number of attacks by enemy aircraft.
The 73rd Bomb Wing lost five B-29s and their crews.
One of these was A Square 28,
497th Bomb Group, Capt Elmer Hahn crew.
Below the cover page is the 497th Mission Blackboard.
This was updated throughout the mission by 73rd Bomb Wing Mission
Control.
At the bottom of the Blackboard is a short table with one of the
entries
A/C LOST to EA 3
