Tag:B-24D Liberator Bomber
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.
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.
Since I recently posted some detail shots of the Lady Be Good some of my readers have asked to see more of my images
At the request of one of my readers I’m posting three photos showing the ALCLAD 24S-T markings on the Lady Be Good.
So, after several weeks and several false starts my first book is now available! You can preview and order it below. The ‘Lady Be Good’ by Richard Davis | Make Your Own Book I decided to use the Lady Be Good as my first book as I still find this to be a compelling story all these years later. In short, in 1943 a B-24D Liberator bomber took off on it’s first mission of the war and never returned. No […]
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) lay the wreckage of the ‘Lady Be Good’, a WWII era Liberator Bomber. The plane failed to return to Suluq airbase after the crew’s first combat mission to bomb Naples on April 4, 1943. The wreckage was discovered from the air on May 15, 1959 and visited on the ground […]
