6 Ruhr Valley, Germany Aug 12

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.