Above, a 379th Bomb Group assembly ship, a war weary plane that aids aircraft into formations.
B 17E 41-9100. This ship flew in Mission #1 of the 8th Air Force, Aug 17, 1942 as "Birmingham Blitzkrieg" with the 97th Bomb Group. It was one of the twelve bombers targeting Rouen that day.
Below, two page account of bombing synthetic oil. Neither flak nor enemy planes can bring Lt W aircraft down after P 47s arrive.
For another mission in the Ruhr Valley see mission 21, target "Happy Valley" link below. Lt Wooldridge led the low squadron where he writes it is "the perfect position--- for the flak to get you."
https://sites.google.com/view/wooldridge-diary-wwii-pilot/21-gelsenkirchen-germany-nov-5-1943
Below, B-17 42-29759 "Gay Caballeros" - this is the ship flown by Lt Wooldridge on this mission #6. He has named it "Little Maggie 2" in his account of the mission but there is no known photo of that event.