42-29759 Gay Cabelleros
https://sites.google.com/view/wooldridge-diary-wwii-pilot/6-ruhr-valley-germany-aug-12
Frances Wooldridge Bekafigo, daughter of Lt Wooldridge
From his WWII diary. The original diary has been donated to the Library of Congress.
The website with the diary is at https://sites.google.com/view/wooldridge-diary-wwii-pilot/home
Delivered Denver 15/2/43; Walker 26/2/43; Salina 10/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 27/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; transferred 525BS/379BG [FR-K] Kimbolton 12/7/43; battle damaged Schweinfurt crash landed RAF Biggin Hill 14/10/43; 2 SAD Lt Staughton 15/10/43; 323BS/91BG [OR-V] Bassingbourn 21/12/43; damaged in mid-air collision with another B-17 of the group but limped back to base and was sent to AFSC 6/4/44; Returned to the USA Homestead 11/6/44; Hobbs 22/8/44; (? with Cleatus Lemmons force landed Hobbs, NM 2/5/45 ?); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 18/9/45. GAY CABALLEROS.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34242184
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16051745
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19059415 / O-731871
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14071848 / O-667406
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13005223 / O-736253
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: PIAAF / Presque Is
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Missions
- Date: 28 July 1943
Revisions
Snetterton Falcons II: The 96th Bomb Group in World War II by Robert E Doherty & Geoffrey D Ward. Second Edition with Errata & Supplemental Information. Taylor Publishing Company. 1996. pages 38, 293, 299