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Lady Be Good is a B-24D Liberator bomber that disappeared without a trace on its first combat mission during World War II.The plane, which was from 376th Bomb Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), was believed to have been lost—with its nine-man crew—in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943.
The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories. 66 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Mysteriously Vanished in a Pennsylvania River Skip to main ...
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and other allied air forces during World War II. Of the 19,256 B-24, PB4Y-1, LB-30 and other model variants in the Liberator family produced, thirteen complete examples survive today, two of which are airworthy.
44-30988 PBJ Mitchell parked on the ramp at the Commemorative Air Force's Southern California Wing's Museum. 44-30988 USN BuNo. 35857 Semper Fi – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Southern California Wing) at Camarillo Airport in Camarillo, California. [118] [119] This aircraft is the only known existing original PBJ-1. [120] On display B-25C
Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bomber: 1935 retired 1946: 350: Douglas Y1B-7 heavy bomber: 1931 retired prototype: 8: Fokker XB-8 heavy bomber: 1929 retired prototype: 7: Great Lakes BG dive bomber: 1933 retired 1941: 61: Huff-Daland XB-1 heavy bomber: 1927 retired prototype: 1: Keystone B-3 light bomber: 1929 retired 1940: 36: Keystone B-4 heavy ...
On 17 October 1944 one crashed into a Coronado Island near San Diego, California. [7] On 6 December 1945 a PB2Y-5R (no. 7241) crashed at Canton island. [7] On 22 June 1945, a PB2Y landed at sea on a flight between Ebeye and Saipan. All were rescued but the aircraft later sank. [7]
It earned the nickname “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific.” The ship was in “exceptional” condition after 78 years under the sea, according to the search team. Ocean Infinity
The squadron was reactivated as a reserve unit at Long Beach Army Air Field, California in July 1947. Although nominally a very heavy bomber squadron, it operated a variety of trainer aircraft to maintain proficiency under Air Defense Command 's 416th AAF Base Unit (later the 2347th Air Force Reserve Training Center).