Where is the lady be good now

Robert E. LaMotte and his fellow crew members are a good representation of the risks that were involved in flight during WWII as they were the crew members on the Lady Be Good, the B Liberator to which the propeller belonged. The Lady Be Good and 24 other bombers were tasked with a mission to bomb Naples, Italy at dusk on April 4 th , and return to the operational base in Soluch, Libya under the cover of darkness.

Unfortunately, they never made it home. By , Axis powers occupied a majority of Europe with the exception of Great Britain and a few other neutral countries. This made it very difficult for the Allied countries to break through German lines and get to Berlin. Another place the Axis had a hold on was Northern Africa.

Lady be good bodies

Another advantage that both sides were seeking to gain by controlling Northern Arica was the mass amounts of strategic resources such as oil the area contained. The US landed in Northern Africa in the year of and restlessly fought for control of the area. Once the US and its allies had a good position in Africa, it could swoop through and take Italy to gain some footholds in Europe.

After this campaign the US and its allies, thanks to a lot of help from the British, were able to take over Libya in early From Libya the US was able to start performing bombing raids on Italy to gain a strategic upper hand. This is where the Lady Be Good and her crew come onto the scene. There were two sections for the mission to bomb Naples, Italy: A section and B section.

The Lady Be Good was part of the B section.