About the Book
By 2:15 pm on April 4, 1943, the B-24D Liberator bomber ‘Lady Be Good’ was off on her first mission of the war. After the raid, she was the only aircraft unaccounted for and no wreckage was found. Her disappearance became just another mystery of the war.
In 1958, an oil exploration company performing an aerial survey saw a B-24 Liberator bomber crashed in the Libyan Desert. Sighting the wreck again, later in 1958, a ground survey crew came upon the wreck in 1959 and identified the aircraft as the ‘Lady Be Good’. Broken in two, the wreck was remarkably well preserved with drinkable water on board, functioning radios, but not a trace of the crew.
The bodies of eight of the crew of nine were found over an eight-month period in 1960 and the story pieced together from the aircraft logs and the diaries found with two of the crew.
I visited the wreck in December 1990 and June 1991 and took the photographs in this book on those visits.
In 1958, an oil exploration company performing an aerial survey saw a B-24 Liberator bomber crashed in the Libyan Desert. Sighting the wreck again, later in 1958, a ground survey crew came upon the wreck in 1959 and identified the aircraft as the ‘Lady Be Good’. Broken in two, the wreck was remarkably well preserved with drinkable water on board, functioning radios, but not a trace of the crew.
The bodies of eight of the crew of nine were found over an eight-month period in 1960 and the story pieced together from the aircraft logs and the diaries found with two of the crew.
I visited the wreck in December 1990 and June 1991 and took the photographs in this book on those visits.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: History
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 40 - Publish Date: Mar 04, 2011
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About the Creator
Richard Davis
Katy, Texas, United States
