Owen Walls Diary
Operations Out of India
January 1945
Mission Number One
| January 2, 1945 | Bangkok (Bridge) in Southern Burma |
| eight 1000 pounders | |
| Results - excellent | |
| 10 hours 20 minutes |
Hump Flight Number One
| January 4, 1945 | Went over as passenger with Major Malone |
| Our crew was spare crew for missions out of A3 in China | |
| Returned January 9 | |
| 6 hours 15 minutes |
Mission Number Two
| January 11, 1945 | Floating dry docks at Singapore. We ran into trouble and bombed last resort target - shipping docks at Margui in West Burma |
| Left here at 0600 and returned | |
| Results - fair | |
| 14 hours 45 minutes |
Hump Flight Number Two
| January 13, 1945 | Our first trip over with just our own crew. |
| Left here 0600 in the morning --- returned about 2200 the same day. | |
| Weather at A-1 was sacked in but we did O.K. on our instrument let-down and approach. Hit the field on the first pass. | |
| 13 hours 5 minutes |
Mission Number Three
| January 25 & 26, 1945 | Singapore Harbor |
| Took off at 1600 Jan 25th weighing 135,000 lbs. We carried six 1000 lb. mines which we placed as per briefing. | |
| Results were excellent. Returned 10:30 Jan 26th | |
| 18 hours 30 minutes |