* * 5 Kassel, Germany July 28
* * 5 Kassel, Germany July 28
Lt Wooldridge wasn't the only one to bring a plane down in a farmer's field. Above, Hells' Belles, B-17 42-30157, overshoots the runway on the Kassel raid ending up in a farmer's field. 91st Bomb Group .
Photo Roger Freeman Collection 729 - American Air Museum in Britain
Below, Lt Wooldridge writes his longest account, ten pages, on Kassel, Germany. The oxygen system is shot out and the crew begins to pass out one by one. He crash lands the crippled ship on a single engine. It is some of his best writing.
Of 302 B-17s dispatched on this mission targeting the Fieseler Works at Kassel and the Focke-Wulf 190 plant at Oschersleben, 22 are shot down resulting in 205 MIA.
Below, Lt KDW brings the plane down on one engine, crash landing in a farmer's field at Foulsham, England