Mission #35-36 to Ploesti Americano Romano (Shell) oil refineries, north of Bucharest, Rumania. Same trip as planned yesterday. Total time 8:15 - on oxygen 6˝ hours. Intense heavy accurate flak. Several holes in ship. No fighters except one ME-109 that made one pass at our tail. No hits. Target completely smoked out. Made 2 runs on it. Don't believe we hit even close. Altitude was 24,000, Temp. -26°. 10 x 500 GPs.

No mail today. Hope I get some tomorrow, or else. Now reading "Escape" by Ethel Vance. Nazi story.

Alerted again for tomorrow. Habit forming, but OK by me.