The first document is from
Missing Air Crew Report 14911.
The other pages are in the
Crew
section.
The last communication with Capt Newell was at coordinates
33 15' N - 134 04' E
This is the location of the Assembly Area.
Paragraph 17 is titled
Remarks or Eyewitness Statements.
Note that weather conditions were such
at the Assembly Point that formations were never assembled.
( the navigation chart in Page 3 has this location )
In the below Bombing Data report the
Time of Release
indicates the B-29s were bombing individually.
Were they in formation, this time would have been the same for each
squadron.
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This partial Weather Forecast diagram shows
expected conditions from Saipan to Osaka.
The part from Saipan, which is ~ 15-20 North, is not in here.
In the area of Osaka ( TARGET )
the forecast does not have any major cloud conditions.
However, the situation during the Bomb Run
was such that the B-29s could not bomb visually and had to rely on
Radar.
Next is the Bombing Data report.
In one of the columns is the Bombing Altitude.
This varies from roughly 20,000 to 26,000 feet.
Underlined in red at the bottom is V-11, the B-29 flown by Capt Newell.
The last three pages have two tables.
The first is Table I titled Aircraft Participating.
This was a Maximum Aircraft Mission.
Every B-29 that was able to fly was in the Mission.
A total of 122 aircraft were airbone with 109 bombing the primary
target.
Table VII
Aircraft Lost and Casualties
is split between pages 4 and 5.
One B-29, V-11, was lost on this mission.
Footnote 'a' at the bottom of each page has a few details concerning
V-11 :
The last contact was at the Assembly Area and not in distress.
Presumbed to have bombed the Primary Target and
reported on fire departing the Osaka area.
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