The last 2 issues of Fly Past mentioned the Lady Be Good.
As a kid I recall the LIFE magazine article about the finding, research and recovery of the plane and crew….
As I recall, the people who found the B24 found uniform items, chewing gum, good coffee in thermoses, and when someone went into a turret, they accidentally fired the .50 cal’s! Oil companies took samples from the engines to study how the oil stood up over the years.
The crew, on course returing from a mission, unknowingly overflew their base. They could not tell just by the direction finder. They thought they were lost over the ocean and bailed out…. The plane went on, and crash landed by itself.
As I recall, they found most of the crew’s remains in a group, where they dropped, trying to get home. They kept a diary too.
I remember the story pretty well, because I was a kid, amazed at this sort of stuff, and had a new friend who had just moved back from working in Libya with Esso. He had war trophies from the desert that were almost like new… I am sure the B24 was well preserved!
Some of the LBG is in the Wright Patterson AF Museum.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b2-39.htm
There is a book out, Lady’s Men: The Story of World War Ii’s Mystery Bomber and Her Crew (Bluejacket Books)
by Mario Martinez …
I will put that on my Father’s Day list!
By: China Clipper - 19th March 2003 at 19:04
Better ending that I remembered. thought he was left! Good!
P40 posted.
By: geedee - 19th March 2003 at 18:58
No worries
Look forward to seeing the piccies
Poor little ghost on his lonesome with just a baseball bat and ball to play with….then they came back for him !
By: China Clipper - 19th March 2003 at 18:52
Not Flown CFS2
Sorry geedee, that was not me.
I just joined this forum this week.
I have been reading Fly Past for years and years, but more so in the last 2 or 3.
Do you recall a brief article about a spitfire under restoration in Texas? It is near me, but I have not exactly located it yet…
I am about to post several WW2 pic’s from my father in law in New Guinea 1944… b24, b26, p47 and p40…
I remember that movie pretty well… they were playing baseball.
By: geedee - 19th March 2003 at 18:44
Yup, thats the one.
Took me quite a while to find the name of the film…everyone I asked new the film and the bit about the ghost’s and everyone said how good it was, but no-one, no-one knew what it was called or who was in it !!!.
I saw that film about 25 years ago now…blimey am I old or what !…and still want a copy for my library…..one day !
TX….! have I flown with you on-line recently in CFS2 ?…about three weeks ago, I was on-line with a guy from TX ???
My zone name is Wrecked_plane, but cant for the life of me remeber who the other guy was
By: China Clipper - 19th March 2003 at 18:35
LBG, Soul Survivor
Geedee,
Greetings from TX….
Soul Survivor? Was that about a B25 crew that crashlanded in the desert? They found all the bodies but one guy who was under the fallen tail section? And “he” got left behind when the other remains were recovered? If it was, I did not make the connection to LBG, but it is clearly there!
Images of LBG remains in last Fly Past, I think. Pretty well busted up, in Libya.
By: ageorge - 19th March 2003 at 18:01
Was’nt she sawn up to fit on some oil companies lorries , when the Libyans found out they impounded her remains and they are still held in storage in a Police compound.
By: geedee - 19th March 2003 at 17:11
Mate, it’s a damn good book
Check out the archives, cos about a year ago, I posted a thread about this topic wanting to know if anyone had the TV film based on the Lady called ‘Soul survivor’. No one has a copy which is a shame cos the film was good as well with a neat twist near the end.
When I moved out here to cyprus, I joined the local library and the very firts book I picked up was the story of the Lady.
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March 19, 2003 at 4:37 pm