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Heavy with “cargo” for Japan, 29^th Group from 314^th Wing North Field

Radar aimed Bombs Rain on Japan Enlarge to see “droplets”

Top of Fujiama

Refueling line on IWO

Bombs falling

Another Group on another city. As resistance waned warnings were issued in advance, we will bomb one of the following three cities tonight, evacuate.....another method used to destroy the will to fight....you've lost we can bomb anywhere you can no longer stop us.......surrender......they didn’t have a surrender mode, the Atomic Bomb followed.

Typical damage to aircraft plants, the results of mix of high explosive and fire bombs. For every hit there were many misses. This factory complex was one of the most hit and most missed.

Long Boy 'Atomic Bomb' in special Bombay with doors opened. Practice drop of Long Boy dummy Atomic Bomb.

Airplane drove over a pit and bomb was lifted up. Bombay doors were fitted to bomb which was not entirely encased by Bombay. These photos once secrete are from IMPACT an official Army Air Corp publication, that these would be Atomic Bombs was not disclosed at the time.

Nap in tunnel above bombbay Co-pilot to Bombardier Flt Engineer to Pilot.

Flight of man made birds returning home – to North Field Guam. The lowest on fuel will land first, others will circle, landing at about 1 minute intervals on each runway. This field is home to almost 200 airplanes, 90% of which could have been in the air this day. One took off every 30 seconds, they will all be returning about the same time, unless damaged or having problems. The planes were equipped with seven methods of navigation, if one kind of method went out they could change to another. Radio beacons were the most used to aim for home, where they were on that path was determined by the Navigator.

This field was soon to be used by following generations of aircraft, these B-29's were destined to be destroyed in Arizona to salvage aluminum for their siblings, none were spared even for museums.

Overall Bombing Results

	Population dehoused	Industrial bldqs. destroyed
Tokyo	46%	29%
Kawasaki	53%	18%
Yokohama	69%	28%
Nagoya	32%	50%
Kobe	58%	36%
Osaka	40%	28%

Industry	Plant Area in '000s sq. ft.	Industrial bldgs. destroyed
Aircraft	140,000	37%
Ordnance .	110,000	15%
Shipbuilding and repair	45,000	15%
Oil (including storage)	150,000	5%
Electrical equipment	40,000	28%
Machinery & finished metal prod.	110,000	33%
Metals (ferrous and non-ferrous)	150,000	14%
Chemicals	130,000	9%
Rubber	30,000	17%
Textiles	50,000	24%
Mil. and Gen. storage area	200,000	12%
All others	445,000	20%

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Resume of 20th AF Missions -- Data Summary by Wing

Item	#M	Wing	AirB	Pri	Sec	Abt	Lost	KLA	KHA		ResF		Iwo		BLd		Ton		EAS		EAA		Ds		Pb		Dm
Min		58C	10	10	0	0	0									29						0		0		0
Avg		58C	62	47	3	10	1.6									200						3.6		2.3		5.7
Max		58C	130	105	19	37	14									638						27		19		31
Sum	49	58C	3060	2343	144	497	79									9794						177		111		280
%		58C		76.5	4.7	16.2	2.6															1.8		1.1		2.9
Min		58	29	23	0	0	0	6.5	8.8	571		0		10607		149		0		0		0		0		0
Avg		58	102	95	2.5	4.3	0.4	14	15	738		13		14679		693		13		6.7		0.3		0.5		1.1
Max		58	180	169	15	9	2	21	25	1051		42		19979		1623		45		54		6		5		15
Sum	25	58	2645	2461	64	112	9					319				18006		335		174		9		12		30
%		58		93	2.4	4.2	0.3															5		6.9		17
Min		73	9	0	0	0	0	5.7	7.2	532		1		2500		10		0		0		0		0		0
AVG		73	118	99	9.9	7.7	2	17	20	907		16		10648		639		18		88		842		4.5		8
Max		73	182	173	64	22	9	29	34	2212		39		20000		1473		45		984		80		23		50
Sum	66	73	4837	3934	467	367	79					120				25669		136		5130		297		148		266
%		73		81.3	9.6	7.58	1.6															6		2.9		5
Min		313	10	4	0	0	0	7	7.8	498		0		8939		27		0		0		0		0		0
Avg		313	43.5	38	2.3	2.5	0.16	14	16	777		7		13056		278		12		11		1.7		1.1		1.3
Max		313	136	133	18	12	2	23	27	1128		40		16906		1029		45		87		21		11		8
Sum	61	313	2696	2376	145	150	10					257				17241		277		690		71		47		57
%		313		88.1	5.4	5.6	0.37															1007		6.8		8
Min		314	9	0	0	0	0	6.8	7.9	464		1		4888		21		0		0		0		0		0
Avg		314	49	44	2.29	2.5	0.37	15	18	817		6		11325		282		17		14		1.5		0.7		1.7
Max		314	167	160	22	10	3	22	29	1516		22		16923		1172		49		85		10		7		11
Sum	69	314	3384	3043	158	167	25					196				19494		428		976		70		36		84
%		314		89.9	4.67	4.9	0.74															7		3.7		8.6
Min		315	35	32	0	0	0	10	12	879		1		14631		208		0		0		0		0		0
Avg		315	78.7	73	1.3	4.2	0.2	13	15	1134		5		17443		615		16		1		0		0		0
Max		315	141	132	4	10	2	16	18	1386		14		20648		1043		38		9		0		0		0
Sum	14	315	1180	1095	20	63	3					61				9228		234		16		0		0		0
%		315		92.8	1.7	5.3	0.25
Min		Com	93	0	0	2	0	4.5	8.5	544		5		5392		290				0		0		0		0
Avg		Com	268.4	228	19.5	16.6	4.46	14	20	803		34		11300		1479				114		9		5.9		10.2
Max		Com	530	473	177	45	26	26	34	1191		100		16565		3609				672		86		31		76
Sum	37	Com	9930	8430	722	613	165					570				54726				4242		291		183		317
%		Com		85	7.3	6.2	1.7															6.8		4.3		7.5
Min		All	9					4.5	7.2	464				2500
Avg		All	107					15	18
Max		All	530					29	34	2212		319		20648
Sum	321	All	26552	23682	1720	1969	370					1523				154159						915		385		793
%		All		89.2	6.5	7.4	1.4															6		4		8

Terms: #M=number of missions; AirB=Airborne; Pri=Primary target; Sec=Secondary target; Lost=Aircraft lost;

KLA=Lowest Altitude in 10,000 ft; KHA=Highest Altitiude in 10,000 ft; ResF=Reserve Fuel remaining;

Iwo=Numbers of aircraft landing on Iwo; BLd=Average Bomb load in pounds; Ton=Tons dropped per mission;

EAS=Enemy Aircraft sighted; EAA=Enemy Aircraft Attacks;

Ds=EA Destroyed, Pb=EA Probable, Dm=EA Damaged