I was a movin' man in my younger days
But I gone out of my ramblin' ways
I
left that road so far behind
Now I know, oh babe
I got mine, I got
mine
I got mine, oh baby I got mine
Baby when I roll, I roll
deep
Some are told, I couldn't get no sleep
Oh
I can get a lesson all the time
Now I know, oh babe
I got mine, I got
mine
I got mine, oh baby I got mine
Whoa I got mine, I got mine
I
got mine, oh baby I got mine
Hey yea
Friday, June 29, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Hole Hearted - Extreme
Life's ambition occupies my time
Priorities confuse the mind
Happiness one step behind
This inner peace I've yet to find
Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
This heart of stone is where I hide
These feet of clay kept warm inside
Day by day less satisfied
Not fade away before I die
Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
Should have known from the start
I'd fall short with the things I do
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Priorities confuse the mind
Happiness one step behind
This inner peace I've yet to find
Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
This heart of stone is where I hide
These feet of clay kept warm inside
Day by day less satisfied
Not fade away before I die
Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
Should have known from the start
I'd fall short with the things I do
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
The Scientist - Coldplay
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart
But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart
But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Chris Hemsworth
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Hemsworth at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International
| Chris Hemsworth | |
|---|---|
 Hemsworth at Tribeca Film Festival 2012. | |
| Born | 11 August 1983 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Spouse | Elsa Pataky (2010–present) |
| Children | India Rose Hemsworth (b. 2012) |
| Relatives | Liam Hemsworth (brother) Luke Hemsworth (brother) |
Chris Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983)[1] is an Australian actor. Hemsworth is best known for portraying Thor in the Marvel Studios films Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012), and Curt Vaughan in The Cabin in the Woods (2012). In 2009 his first major film role came as Lieutenant Commander George Kirk in Star Trek. In 2012 he also starred in The Cabin in the Woods and Snow White & the Huntsman.
He also played the role of Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away.
Contents[hide] |
Early life
Hemsworth was born in Melbourne,[2] the son of Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor.[3][4] He was raised both there and in the Northern Territory, in a little Aboriginal community in the Outback, called Bulman. He has stated, "My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo. Very different walks of life."[2] He attended high school at Heathmont College[2] before his family again returned to the Northern Territory, and then moved a few years later, to Phillip Island.[5] He is the middle of three boys; Luke (older) and Liam (younger) are both actors.
Career
In 2004, Hemsworth auditioned for the show Home and Away role of Robbie Hunter (played by Jason Smith), but did not receive the part. He was subsequently recalled for the part of Kim Hyde and moved to Sydney to join the cast, appearing in 171 episodes of the series.[6] He left the cast of Home and Away on 3 July 2007.
In 2009, Hemsworth portrayed James T. Kirk's father, George Kirk, in the opening scenes of J. J. Abrams' film Star Trek. He played the character Kale in the thriller A Perfect Getaway the same year. He went on to play Sam in Ca$h, which was the first film he shot when he arrived in the United States. The film's director, Stephen Milburn Anderson, said Hemsworth had only been in the United States for six weeks when he had auditioned for the role, recalling, "Here's a guy who is young, has the right look, is a very good actor and, let's face it, he's beautiful. So I say, we need to get this guy in. I was very impressed".[7] In November 2010 The Hollywood Reporter named Hemsworth as one of the young male actors who are "pushing – or being pushed" into taking over Hollywood as the new "A-List".[8] MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named him one of its "25 Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011".[9]
He is best known for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Thor in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor. He and cast-mate Tom Hiddleston, who ultimately played the antagonist Loki, had each auditioned for the role, for which Hemsworth said he put on 20 pounds of muscle.[10] Hemsworth reprised the role in the 2012 film The Avengers as one of the six superheros sent to defend Earth from his adopted brother, Loki.[11]
He starred in the 2012 horror film The Cabin in the Woods, and played the role of Jed Eckert in a Red Dawn remake, scheduled for November 2012.[12] Also that year, he starred opposite Kristen Stewart in the film Snow White & the Huntsman as the Huntsman.
In 2013, Hemsworth will reprise his role as Thor in the sequel Thor 2, set to start filming in August 2012.[13] He is also set to star in Ron Howard's action film Rush as Formula 1 driver James Hunt.[14] Additionally, Hemsworth is scheduled to star in the 2014 thriller Shadow Runner.[15]
Personal life
Hemsworth began dating actress Elsa Pataky in early 2010 after meeting through their mutual representatives.[16] They married in December 2010.[17] The couple have a child together, daughter India Rose Hemsworth, born 11 May 2012.[16]
References
- ^ "Thor's Chris Hemsworth Turns a Year Older". People.com (video). August 11, 2011. http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20516542,00.html.
- ^ a b c Lovece, Frank (29 September 2011). "Chris Hemsworth: Not a Thor Loser". FilmFestivalTraveler.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://filmfestivaltraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1779:chris-hemsworth-not-a-thor-loser&catid=53:interviews&Itemid=73. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Cyrus 'saw in new year on Phillip Island' ". Herald Sun. Australia. 4 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/cyrus-spent-new-year-on-phillip-island/story-e6frf96o-1225815733215. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Rapkin, Mickey (March 2012). "The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth Has No Idea What's About to Hit Him". Details. http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/cover-stars/201203/liam-hemsworth-hunger-games-the-last-song.
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth on Jimmy Kimmel Live Part 1". Jimmy Kimmel Live via YouTube. 5 May 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9hoClrB-A/.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (18 May 2009). "More 'Thor': Marvel Studios Casts UK Actor Tom Hiddleston as Villain Loki". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://www.deadline.com/2009/05/toldja-marvel-studios-about-to-announce-chris-hemsworth-as-thor/.
- ^ “”. "The Movie Cash Podcast Series: Casting Chris Hemsworth". Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDvIly2-fAI. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ Blank, Emily (15 November 2010). "Hollywood's A-List Redefined". (slide 4 of 10 in slideshow) The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/hollywoods-list-redefined-44771. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Evry, Max (5 January 2011). "25 Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011". NextMovie.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/breakout-movie-stars-of-2011/. Retrieved 10 April 2011. Additional WebCitation archive (7 October 2011)
- ^ Rosenbaum, Lara. "Chris Hemsworth's Workout". Men's Health. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://www.menshealth.com/celebrity-fitness/chris-hemsworth-workout. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ McDaniel, Matt (2 May 2012). "‘Avengers’ star Tom Hiddleston told Chris Hemsworth to really hit him". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/avengers-tom-hiddleston-told-214048580.html. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ Valby, Karen (17 May 2009). "Wolverines! Chris Hemsworth nabs lead in 'Red Dawn'". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://insidetv.ew.com/2009/05/17/wolverines-chri/.
- ^ Flemming, Mike (30 June 2011). "Marvel And Disney Setting 'Thor 2' For Winter 2013; Chris Hemsworth's Back but Kenneth Branagh Won't Return". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/marvel-and-disney-sets-thor-2-for-summer-2013-kenneth-branagh-wont-return/. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Chitwood, Adam (11 July 2011). "Chris Hemsworth in Talks to Play Formula 1 Driver James Hunt in Ron Howard's 'Rush'". Collider.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. http://collider.com/chris-hemsworth-rush/101692/. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ a b Kit, Borys (29 June 2011). "Chris Hemsworth to Star in Sony's 'Shadow Runner'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/chris-hemsworth-star-sonys-shadow-206946. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Chris Hemsworth's Wife Elsa Pataky Gives Birth to Daughter India!". Us Weekly. 12 May 2012. http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/chris-hemsworths-wife-elsa-pataky-gives-birth-2012125.
- ^ Jordan, Julie (28 December 2010). "Thor Star Chris Hemsworth Gets Married". People. Archived from the original on 28 March 2011. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20453412,00.html. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Lady Be Good (aircraft)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The crew of Lady Be Good, from the left: Hatton, Toner, Hays, Woravka, Ripslinger, LaMotte, Shelly, Moore and Adams.
Lady Be Good was an American B-24D Liberator, AAF serial number 41-24301, which flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Based at Soluch Field[1][note 1] in Soluch (today Suluq and Benina International Airport, Libya) as part of the 514th Bomb Squadron, 376th Bomb Group, it failed to return from an April 4, 1943 bombing raid on Naples, Italy. At the time, the plane was assumed to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea and its nine crew members were classified as Missing in Action.
In 1958 the nearly intact Lady Be Good was discovered 710 km (440 miles) inland. Subsequent searches uncovered the remains of all but one of the crew.
The members of the Lady Be Good crew were:
Nine B-24s returned to base because of the sandstorm, and four aircraft continued on. They arrived over Naples at 7:50 p.m. at 7600 m (25,000 feet). With bad visibility, they did not bomb the primary target, but two B-24s hit their secondary target on the return trip, and two dumped their bombs into the Mediterranean to reduce weight and save fuel.[2] The Lady Be Good flew back alone from Italy on the return trip to its home base in Libya.
At 12:12 a.m.[2] the pilot, Lt. Hatton, called base by radio and stated that his automatic direction finder was not working and asked for a location of base. The bearing indicated the Lady Be Good was flying on a direct path from Naples to Benghazi.[3]:p.28 However the radio direction finder in use at the base had only a single loop antenna and was unable to distinguish between a true bearing and its reciprocal, so that the same bearing would be returned whether the plane was inbound from the Mediterranean or if it had overflown the base and was heading inland.[3]:pp.28-29
The plane apparently overflew its base and did not see flares fired to attract its attention and continued into the interior of North Africa for two more hours. At 2 a.m., the crew parachuted to the ground and the Lady Be Good continued on for 26 km (16 miles) more with no one aboard and crash-landed in the Calanshio Sand Sea of the Libyan Desert. A search and rescue mission from Soluch Air Base to find the missing bomber was unsuccessful and no trace of the crew or aircraft was found.[2]
The wreckage of the Lady Be Good as it appeared when initially discovered from the air in 1958.
The first reported sighting of the crash site was on November 9, 1958 by a British oil exploration team. The team contacted authorities at Wheelus Air Base, but no attempt to examine the aircraft was made as no records existed of any plane believed to have been lost in the area.[2][3]:p.25 The location of the wreckage was however marked on maps to be used by oil-prospecting teams that were due to set out to explore the Calanshio Sand Sea the next year.[3]:p.25
On February 27, 1959, British oil surveyor Paul Johnson spotted the wreckage near
26°42′45.7″N 24°01′27″E / 26.712694°N 24.02417°E, 710 km (440 statute miles) southeast of Soluch, following up the first sighting from the air on May 16, 1958, and another on June 15. A recovery team made initial trips from Wheelus Air Base to the crash site on May 26, 1959.[4]
Although the plane was broken into two pieces, it was immaculately preserved, with functioning machine guns, a working radio, and some supplies of food and water. A thermos of tea was found to be drinkable. No human remains were found on board the aircraft, nor were parachutes found. Evidence aboard the plane indicated that the men had bailed out. Records in the log of navigator Lieutenant Hays, who was on his very first combat mission, ended at Naples. No human remains were found at the crash site.[2]
A diary recovered from the pocket of co-pilot Robert Toner told of much suffering on the walk northward and indicated the crew were unaware they were over land when they bailed out. There has been speculation that whatever airborne glimpses they may have caught of the empty desert floor in the darkness looked like open sea. It seems the crew never understood they were more than 400 miles (640 km) inland.[3]:p.31
Some believe that the crew could have survived had they known how far inland they were and had their maps shown the area where they bailed out. Going north, the distance they walked was slightly less than the distance needed to reach the oasis of Wadi Zighen that was south of them, but they were wholly unaware of this. Additionally, if they had headed south they would have very probably found the wreckage of the Lady Be Good with its water and food supplies, however meager, along with its working radio, which they might have used to call for help.[3]:p.38
According to the Graves Registration Service report on the incident:
Some parts from the Lady Be Good may be seen today at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. A propeller can be seen in front of the village hall in Lake Linden, the home of Robert E. LaMotte.
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia has a collection of military issue items, such as watches, silk survival maps, and flight clothing from the crew members who were recovered. Several of these items are on display.
An altimeter and manifold pressure gauge were salvaged from the plane in 1963 by Airman Second Class Ron Pike and are on display at the March Field Air Museum just south of Riverside, CA.
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 Libyan military base in Tobruk for safekeeping.[6] The remains were subsequently moved and are now stored at Jamal Abdelnasser Air Force Base, Libya.
A stained-glass window in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base commemorates Lady Be Good and her crew.[2]
The Lady Be Good incident was indirectly referenced in a couple of television shows and movies. Sole Survivor, a 1970 made-for-TV movie, was about the ghosts of a B-25 bomber crew that crashed in the Libyan desert.[8]
"King Nine Will Not Return" is an episode of The Twilight Zone that told the story of a B-25 crew member finding himself alone with the wreckage of his plane in the desert.[9] In the episode, the marker of a grave of a member of the fictional plane’s crew is dated "5 Apr, 1943," the day on which Lady Be Good was lost.
 Aircraft parts were strewn by the Consolidated B-24D Lady Be Good as it skidded to a halt amid the otherwise emptiness of the Libyan desert. Note that the three remaining engines (numbers 1,2 and 3) had the propellers feathered | |
| Accident summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | April 4, 1943 |
| Type | Navigation error |
| Site | 26°42′45.7″N 24°01′27″E / 26.712694°N 24.02417°E Libya |
| Crew | 9 |
| Fatalities | 9 (1 initially, 8 later died) |
| Aircraft type | B-24D Liberator |
| Operator |  United States Army Air Force |
| Flight origin | Soluch Airfield |
| Destination | Soluch Airfield or Malta (having bombed  Naples) |
Lady Be Good
Location of Lady Be Good
In 1958 the nearly intact Lady Be Good was discovered 710 km (440 miles) inland. Subsequent searches uncovered the remains of all but one of the crew.
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Background and mission
The crew of Lady Be Good were on their first combat mission, having arrived in Libya on March 18, 1943. The aircraft was also new, having reaching the 376th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on March 25. The plane had the identification number 64 stencil-painted on its nose and its given name hand-painted on the starboard, front side of the forward fuselage; it was one of 25 B-24s assigned to bomb Naples late in the afternoon of April 4.The members of the Lady Be Good crew were:
- 1st Lt. William J. Hatton, pilot — Whitestone, New York
- 2nd Lt. Robert F. Toner, co-pilot — North Attleborough, Massachusetts
- 2d Lt. D.P. (initials only, also seen as "Dp") Hays, navigator — Lee's Summit, Missouri
- 2d Lt. John S. Woravka, bombardier — Cleveland, Ohio
- T/Sgt. Harold J. Ripslinger, flight engineer — Saginaw, Michigan
- T/Sgt. Robert E. LaMotte, radio operator — Lake Linden, Michigan
- S/Sgt. Guy E. Shelley, gunner — New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
- S/Sgt. Vernon L. Moore, gunner — New Boston, Ohio
- S/Sgt. Samuel E. Adams, gunner — Eureka, Illinois
Nine B-24s returned to base because of the sandstorm, and four aircraft continued on. They arrived over Naples at 7:50 p.m. at 7600 m (25,000 feet). With bad visibility, they did not bomb the primary target, but two B-24s hit their secondary target on the return trip, and two dumped their bombs into the Mediterranean to reduce weight and save fuel.[2] The Lady Be Good flew back alone from Italy on the return trip to its home base in Libya.
At 12:12 a.m.[2] the pilot, Lt. Hatton, called base by radio and stated that his automatic direction finder was not working and asked for a location of base. The bearing indicated the Lady Be Good was flying on a direct path from Naples to Benghazi.[3]:p.28 However the radio direction finder in use at the base had only a single loop antenna and was unable to distinguish between a true bearing and its reciprocal, so that the same bearing would be returned whether the plane was inbound from the Mediterranean or if it had overflown the base and was heading inland.[3]:pp.28-29
The plane apparently overflew its base and did not see flares fired to attract its attention and continued into the interior of North Africa for two more hours. At 2 a.m., the crew parachuted to the ground and the Lady Be Good continued on for 26 km (16 miles) more with no one aboard and crash-landed in the Calanshio Sand Sea of the Libyan Desert. A search and rescue mission from Soluch Air Base to find the missing bomber was unsuccessful and no trace of the crew or aircraft was found.[2]
Wreckage discovered in 1958
After the crew abandoned the aircraft, it continued flying southward. The mostly intact wreckage and evidence showing one engine was still operating at the time of impact suggests the aircraft gradually lost altitude in a very shallow descent, reached the flat, open desert floor and landed on its belly.
On February 27, 1959, British oil surveyor Paul Johnson spotted the wreckage near
26°42′45.7″N 24°01′27″E / 26.712694°N 24.02417°E, 710 km (440 statute miles) southeast of Soluch, following up the first sighting from the air on May 16, 1958, and another on June 15. A recovery team made initial trips from Wheelus Air Base to the crash site on May 26, 1959.[4]
Although the plane was broken into two pieces, it was immaculately preserved, with functioning machine guns, a working radio, and some supplies of food and water. A thermos of tea was found to be drinkable. No human remains were found on board the aircraft, nor were parachutes found. Evidence aboard the plane indicated that the men had bailed out. Records in the log of navigator Lieutenant Hays, who was on his very first combat mission, ended at Naples. No human remains were found at the crash site.[2]
| Wreckage of the Lady Be Good | |||||||||
| |||||||||
Bodies found in 1960
In February 1960, the United States Army conducted a formal search for the remains of the airmen, and five were found. Finding evidence that three other crew members had continued walking northward to seek help, the exploration concluded their bodies were likely buried beneath sand dunes. When the news media reported on the crashed plane and the five recovered bodies, an expanded joint effort of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army called "Operation Climax" took place in May 1960, using a C-130 cargo plane and two Army Bell H-13 helicopters. A British Petroleum exploration crew found the remains of Staff Sgt. Shelley on May 12, 1960, 38 kilometres (24 mi) northwest of the five bodies that were initially found, and a U.S. helicopter found Tech. Sgt. Ripslinger on May 17, 1960. His remains were located 42 kilometres (26 mi) northwest of Shelley.[2] These two bodies were the only ones found during Operation Climax. The body of Lt. Woravka was later found by another British Petroleum oil exploration crew in August 1960, and his remains were then recovered by the U.S. Air Force.Diary details and conclusions
After parachuting to the desert floor, eight of the nine airmen had managed to meet up by firing their revolvers and signal flares into the air. They had not been able to find the ninth crewman, bombardier Lt. John Woravka, because unknown to them his parachute had only partially opened and he likely died on impact.[3]:p.38 Thinking they were fairly close to the Mediterranean coast, the eight surviving crew members walked north, leaving behind footwear, parachute scraps, Mae West vests and other items as markers to show searchers what their path had been. They survived for eight days, sharing only a single canteen of water while walking over 100 miles (160 km) in searing heat before perishing. Remains of five airmen were found in a group nearly 80 miles (130 km) from the crash site. The other three (Guy Shelley, "Rip" Ripslinger and Vernon Moore) had set off to try to find help while the other five waited behind. The bodies of Shelley and Ripslinger were found 32 kilometres (20 mi) and 43 kilometres (27 mi) further north, respectively. Moore's remains were never found, although it is possible that in 1953 his body had been spotted and buried by a British desert patrol, unaware that any air crews from the war had ever gone missing in the area.[note 2]A diary recovered from the pocket of co-pilot Robert Toner told of much suffering on the walk northward and indicated the crew were unaware they were over land when they bailed out. There has been speculation that whatever airborne glimpses they may have caught of the empty desert floor in the darkness looked like open sea. It seems the crew never understood they were more than 400 miles (640 km) inland.[3]:p.31
Some believe that the crew could have survived had they known how far inland they were and had their maps shown the area where they bailed out. Going north, the distance they walked was slightly less than the distance needed to reach the oasis of Wadi Zighen that was south of them, but they were wholly unaware of this. Additionally, if they had headed south they would have very probably found the wreckage of the Lady Be Good with its water and food supplies, however meager, along with its working radio, which they might have used to call for help.[3]:p.38
According to the Graves Registration Service report on the incident:
The aircraft flew on a 150 degree course toward Benina Airfield. The craft radioed for a directional reading from the HF/DF station at Benina and received a reading of 330 degrees from Benina. The actions of the pilot in flying 440 miles into the desert, however, indicate the navigator probably took a reciprocal reading off the back of the radio directional loop antenna from a position beyond and south of Benina but 'on course'. The pilot flew into the desert, thinking he was still over the Mediterranean and on his way to Benina.[6]
Aftermath
Parts of the plane were scavenged or returned to the United States for evaluation. A few aircraft with replacement parts from Lady Be Good later had inflight problems. A U.S. Army de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter with an armrest from the bomber crashed in the Gulf of Sidra. Only a few traces of the plane washed ashore and one of these was the armrest from the Lady Be Good.[7]Some parts from the Lady Be Good may be seen today at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. A propeller can be seen in front of the village hall in Lake Linden, the home of Robert E. LaMotte.
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia has a collection of military issue items, such as watches, silk survival maps, and flight clothing from the crew members who were recovered. Several of these items are on display.
An altimeter and manifold pressure gauge were salvaged from the plane in 1963 by Airman Second Class Ron Pike and are on display at the March Field Air Museum just south of Riverside, CA.
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 Libyan military base in Tobruk for safekeeping.[6] The remains were subsequently moved and are now stored at Jamal Abdelnasser Air Force Base, Libya.
A stained-glass window in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base commemorates Lady Be Good and her crew.[2]
In popular culture
"King Nine Will Not Return" is an episode of The Twilight Zone that told the story of a B-25 crew member finding himself alone with the wreckage of his plane in the desert.[9] In the episode, the marker of a grave of a member of the fictional plane’s crew is dated "5 Apr, 1943," the day on which Lady Be Good was lost.
Notes
- ^ Also Benina Air Field
- ^ In 1953, a British patrol on a desert-crossing exercise found human remains in the same area where those of Shelley and Ripslinger were later found. These were quickly photographed and buried on the spot. The patrol never asked for an investigation. In 2001, a member of the patrol recalled the incident and photographic forensic investigation of the remains concluded they had likely belonged to a male whose head may have been shaped like Moore's. However, both recovering these remains and making any meaningful identification is highly unlikely.[5]
References
- ^ LadyBeGood.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h Vanishings! — Lost in Libya, 2003, History International Channel, re-aired on March, 1, 2010, 3:30 p.m. MST, and on September 6, 2010, 4:30 p.m. CST.
- ^ a b c d e f g Barker, Ralph (1988) [First edition published 1966]. "The Lady Be Good". Great Mysteries of the Air (Revised ed.). London, United Kingdom: Javelin. ISBN 0-7137-2063-8.
- ^ McClendon, Dennis E. (1962). Lady Be Good, Mystery Bomber of World War II. Aero Publishers.
- ^ www.ladybegood.com
- ^ a b "Lady Be Good" B-24 Bomber, Quartermaster Graves Registration Search and Recovery
- ^ Fact Sheets : Consolidated B-24D “Lady Be Good” : Consolidated B-24D “Lady Be Good”
- ^ Sole Survivor
- ^ "The Twilight Zone" King Nine Will Not Return (1960)
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