Lady Be Good – Day 2, April 6, 1943

Lady Be Good – Day 2, April 6, 1943
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For the second day, the eight members of the crew of the Lady Be Good that had formed up after bailing out continued their trek across the featureless gravel plain.

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Lady Be Good – Day 1, April 5, 1943

Lady Be Good – Day 1, April 5, 1943
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With the aircraft almost out of fuel and just flying on one engine, the crew of the Lady Be Good baled out into the night sky.

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The ‘Lady Be Good’, Libya

The ‘Lady Be Good’, Libya
Wreckage of the Lady Be Good in 1991

In 1990-91 I was fortunate enough to be assigned to work in the Calanscio sand sea in the Libyan Desert. Fortunate because a little to the east (in those days)…

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