|
Date
|
Force/Leader
|
Staging/ Target
|
Claims
|
Losses
|
|
1/3
|
9 B-17s/Maj. C. Combs
|
Samarinh/
Davao
Harbor
|
1 destroyer, sunk
|
none
|
|
1/8
|
9 B-17s/Maj. Combs
|
Kendai/Davao Harbor
|
"uncertain results"
|
none
|
|
1/11
|
7 B-17s/Maj. Combs
|
-/Tarakan
|
2 Japanese A/C downed
|
none
|
|
1/14
|
7 B-17s/Maj. Combs
|
Palembang
,Sumatra/Malasia
|
hits on A/Fs, downed 2 A/C
|
1 damaged beyond repair on landing
|
|
1/16
|
3 LB-30s, 2 B-17s/Maj. A. A. Straubel
|
Kendrai/Manado
Bay
|
|
2 LB-30s; 1 B-17
|
|
1/19
|
9 B-17s/Lt. John B. Connally
|
Del Monte
/Jolo
|
|
none
|
|
1/22-
2/3
|
"at least 15 missions" involving 88 heavy bombers; 5
missions reported successes
|
targets included shipping in NEI and
Philippines
and A/F in Malasia
|
his on 2 transports, 2 other vessels
|
10 B-17s from enemy action and accidents
|
|
2/2 – 2/12
|
"foul weather and enemy interception thwarted all
attempts to bomb"
|
|
|
|
|
2/9 – 2/18
|
16 missions involving 87 sorties; 51 sorties turned
back mostly by weather
|
|
|
|
|
2/8
|
9 B-17s/Capt. J.L. DuFrame
|
Kendrai
|
5 Japanese A/C downed
|
6 B-17s shot down
|
|
2/12
|
3 "bombers"
|
|
"believed they hit a boat"
|
|
|
2/15
|
5 B-17s
|
|
hit on cruiser
|
|
|
2/16
|
|
|
hits, 2 transports
|
|
|
2/19
|
11 sorties by B-17s
|
Bali
invasion fleet
|
3 hits on
cruiser, one on destroyer and transport, 2 A/C downed
|
none
|
|
2/21 – 2/28
|
11 missions, 31 sorties.
"could only be recorded as failures"
|
|
|
|
|
2/24
|
|
ships at
Makassar
|
two ships "definitely sank"
|
|
|
2/28
|
6 B-17s, 1 LB-30
|
Java invasion fleet
|
one B-17 claimed 4 transports sunk, 2 possibles.
Two other B-17s claimed 1 transport sunk, 1 damaged
|
|
|
3/1
|
1 B-17
|
Java invasion fleet
|
2 hits on transports
|
|