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08-10-2009, 11:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| I remember seeing an episode on Globe Trekker where the gal was going through the North Afrikan desert, and she came across of a huge area of WWII British vehicles still sitting in the middle of nowhere. The vehicles were pretty well picked over, the rubber is all dry-rotted and the sheet metal is sand blasted, but overall, everything is in fair shape. Makes you wonder what else is sitting out there...
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08-11-2009, 09:29 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Time to pack!
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08-11-2009, 10:41 AM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| I'm certain that under those sands, which are shifting constantly, there is a treasure trove of aircraft and vehicles. Charles
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08-11-2009, 05:07 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| probably similar to "Glacier Girl".
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08-11-2009, 09:59 PM
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| I believe there's a German expedition in Greenland looking for other P-38s that had been lost with Glacier Girl. The flight all set down within direct proximity of each other, but over the years, the aircraft sank into the ice, and drifted apart. Not sure if the expedition has had any success.
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08-13-2009, 08:14 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Port Elizabeth
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| Lady Be Good - false hope I am attaching a newspaper article published in "The Herald" newspaper in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1960 when news of the discovery of "Lady Be Good" raised the hopes of my husband's grandfather that the aircraft would turn out to be the Liberator bomber in which his son Harland Benn (W/O2; Air Gunner; SAAF 34 Sqn) had disappeared while on his third tour of duty. No trace has ever been found of Harland, his plane or crew after they took off from Celone (Foggia) to bomb the railway marshalling yards at Verona on 2 March '45 in Liberator EW 207 "K". I have been researching Harland's life for 5 years and trying to discover his fate, but without success. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated; I can be contacted via this site or at melhermanATiafrica.com Kind regards Melanie |
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08-16-2009, 07:12 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Norway
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 | i hope they will restire lady B good or put her on a proper display..as she has been salvaged and are now sitting behind a garage...
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08-16-2009, 09:49 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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08-17-2009, 02:34 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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| Would be nice to see her put on display for everyone to see.
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08-18-2009, 07:58 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wiltshire, UK
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| Welcome aboard MelanieJane and good luck with your quest. Thats an interesting paper article you have there...just about a month before I was born ! My understanding is that the Lady was recovered but not particularly well or sympathetically and suffered some further damage before languishing in a heap and almost forgotten. These two shots are from the USAF Museum at Dayton and are a prop assembly and motor from the Lady. The prop on its own is said to be haunted and I know of several members on various A/C forums I belong to, that have an inability to stay anywhere near the display and feel very uneasy when walking past to get to the other exibits. Interstingly enough, it only seems to affect gals and not us blokes!. We have a number of museums here in the UK with lots and lots of crash recovered relics and again its the gals that cant / wont go near certain items !
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08-19-2009, 08:50 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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| Creapy, but yet would be pretty cool to see.
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08-19-2009, 09:52 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Cool pics Gary, and haunting in a way. Any idea on the current disposition of other "Lady" artifacts/wreckage? TO
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08-19-2009, 09:57 PM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Aside from components reused in other aircraft, other parts from the Lady Be Good may be seen today at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. One propeller can be seen in front of the village hall in Lake Linden, the home of Robert E. LaMotte. A Royal Air Force team visited the site in 1968, and hauled away components including an engine (later donated to the USAF) for evaluation by the McDonnell Douglas company. Other pieces were stripped by souvenir hunters over the years. In August 1994, the remains of the craft were recovered by a team led by Dr. Fadel Ali Mohammed and taken to a military base in Tobruk for safekeeping. [Source: Wiki] I really doubt that the Lady Be Good is sitting behind someone's garage..... Charles
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08-19-2009, 10:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| Here's a good page that covers Lady Be Good's history, from their deployment and final mission, to the search & recovery of the Airmen and the disposition of the aircraft's remains. "Lady Be Good" B-24 Bomber, Quartermaster Graves Registration Search and Recovery
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08-19-2009, 10:30 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA.
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| Thank you for the link Dave.  |
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