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14 de jan. de 2018 · Lady Be Good era o musical da Broadway apresentado em 1924, sendo o primeiro musical de sucesso dos irmãos George e Ira Gershwin. A música com o mesmo nome foi gravada por Fred Astaire com George Gershwin no piano.
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Mission
In 1943, Lady Be Good was a new B-24D Liberator bomber that had just been assigned to the 514th Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) on March 25. The squadron was part of the 376th Bombardment Group (Heavy) based at Soluch Field in Soluch in Libya. The plane, which had the AAF serial number 41-24301, had the group identification number 64 stencil-painted on its nose. Its given name, Lady Be Good, was hand-painted on the starboard, front side of the forward fuselage. Lady...
Operation
Lady Be Good, which was one of the last planes of the second wave to depart, took off from Soluch Field near Benghazi at 2:15 p.m. It joined the formation and continued on to Naples. However, a sandstorm caused eight B-24s to return to Soluch, leaving four aircraft to continue the operation. When Lady Be Good arrived over Naples at 7:50 pm at 25,000 ft (7,600 m), poor visibility obscured the primary target. Two B-24s attacked their secondary target on the return trip while the other two aircr...
Disappearance
Lady Be Good flew alone on its return trip to its home base in Libya. At 12:12 a.m. the pilot, Lt. William Hatton, radioed to say his automatic direction finder was not working and asked for a location of base. The crew apparently overflew their base, failing to see the flares fired to attract their attention. They continued southward over North Africa, deeper into the Sahara Desert, for the next two hours. At 2 a.m., as fuel became critically low, the crew parachuted to the ground. The aband...
Wreckage: 1958
After the crew abandoned the aircraft, it continued flying southward. The mostly intact wreckage and evidence showing that one engine was still operating at the time of impact suggests that the aircraft gradually lost altitude in a very shallow descent and reached the flat, open desert floor and landed on its belly.[citation needed] The first reported sighting of the crash site was on November 9, 1958, by a British oil exploration team working for British Petroleum (BP) in the northeast of Li...
Crew remains: 1960
In February 1960, the United States Army conducted a formal search of the area for the remains of the crew. Five bodies – those of Hatton, 2nd Lt. Robert F. Toner, Hays, T/S Robert E. LaMotte and S/Sgt Samuel E. Adams – were found on February 11. The team concluded that other bodies were likely buried beneath sand dunesafter finding evidence that at least three of the surviving crew members had continued walking northward. With the news that five bodies had been recovered, the US Air Force an...
Subsequent examinations of the remains and personal items showed that eight of the nine airmen managed to parachute safely down to the desert from the aircraft. They then located each other by firing their revolvers and signal flares into the air. However, one crew member, Woravka (the bombardier) did not rendezvous with the others. The configurati...
Parts and crew items
After the Lady Be Good was identified, some parts of the plane were returned to the United States for evaluation while the rest of the wreckage remained. In August 1994, the remains of the craft were recovered by a team led by Dr. Fadel Ali Mohamed and taken to a Libyan military base in Tobruk for safekeeping. They are now stored at Jamal Abdelnasser Air Force Base, Libya. Over the years pieces of the plane were stripped by souvenir hunters. Today, parts can be seen at the National Museum of...
Memorial
A stained-glass window was installed in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base to commemorate Lady Be Good and her crew. As part of the US withdrawal from Wheelus, the window was disassembled, shipped to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and reassembled there.
The episode Ghost Bomber: The Lady Be Good of Armstrong Circle Theater investigated the disappearance of the Lady Be Good. It includes dramatizations of key events and interviews with a pilot who flew on the same mission as the final one for the Lady Be Goodand military officials who investigated the incident. The Lady Be Goodincident was indirectl...
Wind, Sand and Stars: a 1939 autobiography by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that details his survival following a 1935 plane crash in the Sahara Desert between Benghazi and Cairo.MM. 23881: an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 torpedo bomber which suffered a similar fate to Lady be Good in 1941, and was found in the Libyan Desertin 1960.Tragedy at Kufra: eleven South African Air Force personnel died from thirst and exposure in May 1942 after their flight of three Bristol Blenheimscrash landed in the Sahara.BoksburgHistorical.com: African Relics (Calanshio Sand Sea and Lady Be Good)"Body and wallets lie among 200-foot dunes" (Lady Be Goodin the Calanshio Sand Sea)29 de out. de 2020 · is a 1924 song by George and Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Walter Catlett in the Broadway musical Lady, Be Good! written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, and the Gershwin brothers and...
Lady Be Good perdido na areia. ...
27 de mar. de 2019 · Mais tarde foi revelado que eram os destroços de um B-24D da Segunda Guerra Mundial, também conhecida como "Lady Be Good". O avião voou pela primeira vez em uma missão de bombardeio na Itália em 1943, mas perdeu o contato por rádio logo após entrar em uma tempestade de areia.
16 de jun. de 2017 · On April 4, 1943, a B-24D Liberator nicknamed Lady Be Good took off from Soluch, an airstrip located near Bengazi, Libya, for what would be her first and final mission. During that fateful trip, Lady Be Good carried nine members of the 514 th Squadron, 376 th Bomb Group, 9 th Air Force.
22 de abr. de 2022 · Subscribed. 8.7K. 413K views 1 year ago #Disasters #History. April 1943 - While on a return trip from a bombing raid, the WW2 B-24 Liberator the "Lady Be Good" vanished without a trace....
