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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 story is told in the book "Almost Home: The Story of the B-24 Crash at Walliwall Orkney – 31 March 1945" by David W. Earl. [59] [60] 5 April 1945 A B-24H-15-DT, 41-28779 of the 564th Bomb Squadron , 389th Bomb Group (Heavy) , was captured by the Luftwaffe on 20 June 1944 (MACR 6533 [ clarification needed ] ), [ citation needed ] and ...
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.
"Little Eva" was a USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator which crashed north-west of Burketown, Queensland (near the Gulf of Carpentaria) on 2 December 1942. The aircraft was returning from a bombing mission when its crew became lost. As the fuel supply approached exhaustion some of the crew took to their parachutes.
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Consolidated B-24 Liberator" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The remains of the 31-year-old Army Air Force tail gunner aboard a B-24J Liberator bomber, a warplane that went down on a bombing mission from India to Burma late in 1943, have been identified and ...
The Atka B-24D Liberator is a derelict bomber on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The Consolidated B-24D Liberator was deliberately crash-landed on the island on 9 December 1942, and is one of only eight surviving D-model Liberators (including partial and derelict aircraft).
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