Skeletons of B-24 Crew found in the Sahara Desert
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A B-24 Liberator named Lady Be Good was discovered without its crew, 16 years after it disappeared into the Sahara Desert, after it overflew its base in Libya. The aircraft was found by British Petroleum surveyors. Poor visability, stormy weather, and an inexperienced navigator may have caused the pilot to have flown 440 miles past their base, and on out into the desert, taking the lives of everyone on board.
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Beg to differ... they died of dehydration...one can survive many weeks without food... only several days with little or no water...rip brave warriors.
Yes I agree. Thanks for the correction!
Rule of threes contains the following:
-You can survive three weeks without food.
-You can survive three days without drinkable water
-You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold).
-You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness), or in icy water.
Harold ripslinger is buried aprox 1 hour from me.. I paid my respects recently.. he hiked the furthest.. upon my visit to the Air Force museum years ago my lil girl saluted the display case of sgt toners diary and thermos.. I was so proud
Thank you Todd, it's great to read personal stories like yours and to realized that many of the pilots and crewmen I've talked about are buried right here in our community.
A classic Twilight Zone episode- "King Nine Will Not Return," was based on this tragic incident.
When they found the Lady Be Good they also found the navigator's log book. Instead of finding course plots and navigator calculations the log book was full of doodling.
I read absolutely the same thing. I'm wondering now if anybody on board even knew how to operate the radio direction finder??
I think they also found a still working radio.
Very sad.May they rest in peace.🙏🙏🙏🇭🇲✌️
Those B25s taking off look like scenes from Catch-22.
They were flying B24s......
They were scenes from Catch-22
@@bryanburke7947 But quite a few of the pictures were of B-25s, including the mass takeoff scene of B-25s from the movie Catch 22.
Yes gentlemen. I couldn't find any scenes of B-24's taking off from a dirt field in Libya, so I used Catch-22's scenes of B-25 Mitchells taking off. If I thought that nobody would notice I was wrong! lol
I read of this discovery in LIFE MAGAZINE that my mother had a subscription for in the late 1950's..
My mother saved all the Life Magazines about John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie.
Watch the 1969 tv movie Sole Survivor with William Shatner, Richard Basehart, and Patrick Wayne.
Thank you - will do!
Recorded that on a beta tape back in the 80s and watched it now and then. Just recently recently got a DVD of it because I really like the movie.
Remind me of a old movie about a bomber crew that were ghost
I saw that movie many years back but can't recall the title
"Sole Survivor" was released in 1970 starring Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart, and William Shatner. It is the story of an American B-25 that crashed in the Libyan desert and the crew are now all ghosts.
Not one competent member in that entire crew. How is that possible?
WHY did the investigators show up "a year later"????? This seems very odd, like they didn't care. This is unacceptable. That Twlight Zone episode (in which they called the "Lady Be Good" "King 9") was based on this story
It's a long story and so I cut it down for the video. The first time the geologists told the base commander at Wheelus Air Base, they ignored them. They said, "oh yeah there were dozens of air wrecks back in WWII. But the following season (remember it's murderously hot half the year), they flew down there and realized that the geologists were right. It was the Lady Be Good which had been missing for 16 years. But it took two more years until they located the bodies of eight, of the nine aviators. And once again - it was the geologists who found them. Five bodies at one site, two at another, and on body that was 78 miles north of the wreck site!
There was also a 1970 movie called Sole Survivor based on this also.
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Five bodied were found 78 miles from the crash site by the oil team. Another was found 35 miles north of the five bodies by members of the oil team. The recovery team from the U.S.Army back tracked and found another body 10 miles back and only 26 miles from the five. Later in the year, another group of members from the oil team found the body of the bombardier just 16 miles for the wrecked bomber. He is the one who died first when he didn't open his parachute until it was too late.
Mounting a recovery operation (in the desert) is a massive logistical investment. You first have to find and justify the expenditure in your buget, then the personel and equipment to mount the operation. This all takes time and justfication (permission) at each level of command, this kind of spending takes a Secretary (USAF) to sign off, but only after a conclusive report and plan of action has been hammered out.
Good job telling this story Robert. But I still like my version...happily ever after...the stranger from the desert.
Thanks Bruce. I owe you a Bud Light
Such a horrible catastrophe!! At least they may now R.I.P
Indeed - thank you Jane
What a load,,,,
This video is disrespectful to the families of these brave men It is inaccurate and should be taken down. I'm reporting it to RUclips
Not the brightest candles concerning navigation skills. Nowadays not one would get a private pilot licence.
N 1943 there was very little to be had for navigation for airplanes as there is today all over the world. Highly doubtful that the best pilot/navigator today could do any better than this crew at night and in cloud cover above the aircraft.
@@terrancenorris9992 I learned to fly with dead reckoning with stopwatch. At least they had not easiest skills. I do not need GPS and all the electronic crap still today.
My german pilot licences are now 38 years old.
@@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885 Pretty hard to do 'dead reckoning' when you're over the ocean or desert, there are no landmarks. And I got my Private Pilots license and Instrument rating 40 years ago, I understand this process. This aircraft encountered winds from the Northwest that were MUCH stronger than expected and that was part of the problem. Their radio direction finding equipment onboard was not working and when they requested ground radio detection assistance, the ground crew was only partially helpful-they were able to give them a directional heading, but in fact they had already passed the coast and were really on a reciprocal (180 degrees) heading from the ground controller (his equipment couldn't tell whether they were on one bearing or the reciprocal). The navigator was young, inexperienced and couldn't see the North Star to aid in establishing his position due to sandstorms-he had to rely on estimations of his ground speed and his stopwatch. In fact, his ground speed was MUCH greater than anticipated due to the high winds aloft and they passed the North Africa coast far sooner than they expected. When they discovered the bodies decades later they also found a diary one of the men was filling out-and it was clear they thought they were much closer to the coast than they actually were. 400 miles from the coast, they never had a chance. RIP.
Indeed - poor navigational skills cursed the flight from the moment they took off. But the Brits didn't help by ignoring two of the Lady Be Good's three radio calls.
@@airsearch9192 o.k. I didn’t know.
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