FRIDAY, 30 MARCH 1945
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): Eight B-25s cancel a shipping strike because of weather.
CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): Five B-24s bomb the Samah Bay area. In China, 4 B-25s, supported by 24 P-40s, knock out a bridge at Chungmow; 10 B-25s bomb Hsuchang, 9 bomb Changanyi, and 9 pound the Yanglowtung railroad yards; 15 P-40s fly escort; Two B-25s bomb Hankow Airfield, 2 bomb Neihsiang, and single B-25s attack targets around Fang-cheng, Nanyang, and Anlu; 100+ fighter-bombers over S and E China hit troops, railroad targets, trucks, tanks, supplies, and rivercraft especially around Hankow, Wuchang, Kanchou, and Hangchow; the airfield area at Kanchou and airfield and railroad yards at Hangchow are hit particularly hard; the 529th Fighter Squadron, 311th Fighter Group, based at Pungchacheng with P-51s, sends a detachment to operate from Hsian.
INDIA-BURMA THEATER (Tenth Air Force): In the C Burma battle area 41 P-38s and P-47s hit enemy troops and supplies at Loiwing, Pawngleng, and Nawnghkio; 7 B-25s hit personnel, a supply area, and trucks behind the enemy lines in and near Laihka and at Kongleng; 7 other B-25s attack road bridges, knocking out a bridge at Loi Putau; transports complete 612 sorties to forward areas.
AAFPOA (Seventh Air Force): Ten Guam based B-24s bomb the airfield on Marcus in the N Pacific; during the night 5 others individually strike Chichi Jima Airfield.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): 2 missions are flown during the night of 30/31
Mar. Mission 48: 12 of 14 B-29s attack the Mitsubishi aircraft engine plant
at Nagoya shortly past 0000 hours without loss. Mission 49: 85 of 94
B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait between Honshu and Kyushu; 2 others drop their
mines in other areas; 1 B-29 is lost.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA: B-24s
bomb the Balete
Pass and Solvec Cove areas; P-38s hit artillery positions in the Santa
Fe area; B-24s and A-20s hit Legaspi Port and nearby Little Batsan; A-20s
and fighter-bombers continue ground support missions in the Laguna de Bay area
and W of Ft Stotsenburg. B-24s and A-20s support ground forces on Cebu. B-24s,
B-25s, and P-38s hit Bongao, Sanga Sanga, and Kuching,
Borneo area. Lost is B-25J 44-29350 (3 POW, 3 MIA). Also lost on a ferry flight is B-25D "Chow Hound" 41-30669 (crew rescued).
USN: Lost is PB4Y-1 Liberator 38925 (crew rescued).
