The B-24 Bomber that Vanished Without a Trace - The Story of "Lady Be Good"
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This is the historic tale of B-24 Liberator Bomber "Lady Be Good" and the tragic ending it would meet. This was made using the World War II flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles series. Hope you enjoy! Please like, comment, and subscribe. #WW2 #History #WarThunder
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I was on Operation Climax. Spent 30 days in the desert searching for our fallen hero’s . The desert is very unforgiving. We lost 2 of our team in a sand storm and took days to find them. I sat on the side of the sand dune he was climbing and read his diary. I removed spark plugs from the Lady Be Good and donated them And other pictures to the Yankee Air Force here in Michigan after I got home. Years later the hanger where the items were kept burned to the ground.
My father was a B-17 Navigator with the 15th Airforce in 1944. I asked him why the Lady be Good crashed. He said only two words, bad navigation.
The last man, Sgt Harold Ripslinger, spending his final hours alone after such a cruel journey, still walking in the desert to the north, it's sad but I want to think it a triumph. I will remember him and learn from his strength when whatever hardship hits me in the rest of my life. Thanks for the video.
I'm likely more proud of this video than any other I've ever made. So I hope you guys enjoy! I tried some new things here so let me know your thoughts! Correction - Someone said I accidentally said "B-25" around
When I was a boy I got the book, "The Lady be Good". I think it was from one of those book drives they had in schools back in the day, and I was fascinated by WW2 and had several books on it. I remember that book well to this day (and I still have it actually, although I'm now 50). It really left an impression on me, and I remember feeling very sad and haunted by the tale. The Book had many of the sane pictures in your video, but also several more including two diaries I believe. Reading those diary entries will bring a tear to your eye at any age. You can really feel what those men went through.
My dad was a Bomb Aimer and Assistant Navigator in a B24 crew with the 357 Special Duty Squadron of the RAF. On long distance missions to drop agents deep in Japanese held territory he would constantly be taking astro shots (stars, moon, sun, etc.) for his Navigator in order to triangulate and plot their position. He said he survived the war because he was lucky to have a good Captain, a good Navigator and skilled ground crews. Some of his friends were not as lucky.
I have seen all of your videos and this is the best one. I can't even imagine the feeling of hopelessness when the landed in the desert expecting water and they got sand. The story telling in this documentary was the best I have seen on TH-cam. As an aside you are a very good pitchman, weirdly I look forward to your advertisements, very smooth presentation. I am enjoying the many series your are doing. Cheers.
My dad was USAF stationed at Wheelus AFB, Tripoli Libya from 1962 to 1966. We, his family were there as well. Lived offbase in downtown Tripoli for the first 2 years then got on base housing for the second 2 years. The base chapel had a beautifully crafted stained glass window showing a crashed B-24 in the desert with some other symbols as well. I was pretty young so I don't remember exactly the whole scene but do remember I was always struck by the lonely, broken plane in it. Found out later the plane was the Lady Be Good and the story of her crew. Still tugs at me today every time I encounter reminders of them like this video. I'm commenting before watching this so I hope it serves them well.
I've served in the military and watched many people get lost many times. I'd try to help, or point it out, but they always refused help out of stupid pride. I would never EVER rely solely on another person to navigate. I will Always do my own checking of where we are, and where we're supposed to be or going, even if I'm not the one responsible for navigating.
I was about 11 years old when Lady Be Good was found. I had a plastic model of a B-24 Liberator that I hung from my ceiling light for years afterward.
I really enjoyed this video and the way you presented the plight of this air crew.
Giff Marr, a military pilot of the 329th Geodetic Detachment (which later became the reactivated 64th Topographic Engineer Battalion, flew an Air Force LTC to the site in an L-19 in 1959 to determine if a C-47 could be landed there. As noted in the video some parts where used in other aircraft and an arm rest was removed and placed in one of the detachments Otters. In January 1960 that Otter, flew with two other Otters to Benghazi, but the pilot detoured across the the Gulf of Sirte (against orders) and that was the last time it was seen. Giff Marr with other members of the aviation section searched the coast line and one of the other pilots with him found a few pieces of the Otter with the arm rest taken from the Lady Be Good. The remains of the Otter with its pilot and a full survey crew from the detachment were never found.
What an incredibly heartbreaking story. I just can't imagine the fear that these young men experienced while trying to find a way to home and help. And then slowly having to break the group up one by one with the strongest continuing on to get help is just heart-wrenching. Rest in peace to these Brave Young Warriors.
Some years latter a tv movie was made starring William Shatner. The plane was a B-25. The movie is Lone Survivor (1970).
I’m from a small town in upper Michigan called Hancock. A short distance away is a town called Lake Linden. Sgt. LaMott who was on the Lady be Good crew is from that town. In front of their town hall is a memorial to the Lady be Good, & one of the propellers from the plane is mounted on the memorial!
I'm surprised the navigator did not have or used a compass. In WWII basic survival techniques nor basic survival equipment were not always taught or distribute to flight crews. In the Korean War airmen and flight crews had basic survival gear and survival training!
Sad today the one who died from parachute malfunction was the luckiest one,he didn’t have to die slowly from thirst and blazing sun and freezing nights.Tragic story.
Finding a body in that many square miles is amazing
Saw an episode based on this happening shown in the Twilight Zone television series when I was a young boy. Didn't realize it was a true story then. Very entertaining, made me so very sad for the crew even then. Many years later when I found out it was actually real it made me even sadder. Sense I could really appreciate what they must have gone through.