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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.
Jun 16, 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.
At 2:50 p.m. on April 4, 1943, 25 B-24Ds of the 376th Bomb Group took off from their AAF base at Soluch, Libya, for a high-altitude bombing attack against harbor facilities at Naples, Italy.
Dec 15, 2020 · The, Lady Be Good, 41-24301, was an American B-24D Liberator, which flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was originally in the 8th Air Force, the 376th Bomb Group, and the 514th Bomb Squadron in Britain, and sent to North Africa, as part of the 8th Air Force, the 376th Bomb Group, and the 514th Bomb Squadron, under ...
Nov 21, 2017 · For 15 years, a B-24D Liberator called the Lady Be Good was missing and no one had the slightest clue what had happened to it.
Oct 22, 2021 · On 4 April 1943, an American B-24D Liberator named Lady Be Good mysteriously disappeared while returning from a bombing run over Naples. The aircraft seemingly vanished into thin air. In 1958 a British oil exploration team discovered the wreckage of a large aircraft laying in the Libyan Desert.
Story of the 1959-60 search for and recovery of crew members of the B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan Desert 16 years after it lost its way back from a World War II mission to bomb Naples, Italy on 4 April 1943.
Dick Campbell, Aviation Historian, explores the mystery of the World War II American B-24D Liberator, "Lady Be Good." The plane, lost in a bombing raid on Naples, Italy on April 4, 1943, was...
Feb 20, 2018 · It was later revealed that it was the wreckage of a ‘B-24D Liberator’ from the Second World War, also known as the ‘Lady Be Good.’ The plane flew for the first time on a bombing mission in Italy in 1943 but lost radio contact shortly after entering a sandstorm.
Jan 25, 2007 · Among the wave of bombers, a B-24 named Lady Be Good was on its very first mission with a crew fresh from training in the United States. It would also be the last mission for Lady Be Good and her crew who would disappear that day and whose whereabouts would remain unknown for over 15 years.
