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Consolidated B-24D that crashed in the Libyan Desert, the ‘Lady Be Good’, in 1943, discovered in 1958.
The ‘Lady Be Good’ disappeared without a trace on its first combat mission during WWII. The B-24, which was from the 376th Bomb Group, disappeared after a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943.
The wreck was accidentally discovered 440 miles inland in the Libyan Desert by a British Petroleum exploration team on November 9, 1958.
Investigators concluded that the first time, all new, crew had failed to realize that they had overflown their air base in a sandstorm. After continuing to fly south into the desert for many hours, the crew bailed out when the B-24’s fuel ran out. The survivors then died in the desert trying to walk out to safety.
All but one of the crew’s remains were recovered between February and August 1960. The wreckage of the ‘Lady be Good’ was taken to a Libyan AF base in August 1994.
The ill-fated crew of the ‘Lady Be Good’ L to R: 1LT.. W.J. Hatton, pilot; 2LT. R.F. Toner, copilot; 2LT. D.P. Hays, navigator; 2LT. J.S. Woravka, bombardier; TSgt. H.J. Ripslinger, engineer; TSgt. R.E. LaMotte, radio operator; SSgt. G.E. Shelly, gunner; SSgt. V.L. Moore, gunner; and SSgt. S.E. Adams, gunner.

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