HAUNTED WW 2 PLANES:
The World War Two B24 Liberator
"Lady Be Good."
LOCATION:
"Lady Be Good" can be found in the Air Power Gallery, which is the home of
lots of WW 2 planes, photos & exhibits of a variety of occurrences, including
the story of the Philippine Death March, life in a POW camp, The Flying Tigers
story, uniforms of all the services, heroes, and campaigns, and other artifacts
too numerous to mention.
DESCRIPTION:
B24 Liberator "Lady
Be Good" - Was stationed at Soluch Airstrip on the coast of Libya.
About the B-24 Liberator
bomber: The B24 Liberator had a number of virtues that made it a much more sought
after bomber: It was fast (300 mph at 30,000 feet), capable of carrying 8000 LB
of bombs, and had an operational range of approximately 2290 miles.
HISTORY
OF MANIFESTATIONS:
With planes involved with
life-threatening dramas like war, people have died, but it seems aren't ready
to continue on to the other side.
WW2 - B-24 Liberator heavy bomber,
Lady Be Good -
This B24 was stationed at Soluch Airstrip
on the coast of Libya. It was on its first bombing mission to drop its load on
Naples, Italy, but had to turn back because of bad visibility or mechanical difficulties
due to the sand which may have been sucked into the engine at takeoff.
The
plane became helplessly lost. Navigator 2nd Lt. Hays was not prepared to handle
this situation, having received minimum training of 20 weeks and very little night
time. It crashed in the Libyan Desert on 4 April 1943. While 8 of the 9 crew members
successfully parachuted out alive, just before the plane crashed, they all died
in the desert, trying to find help. The rescue planes only searched the water
ways, not the desert.
The wreckage of the plane was finally found in 1959,
through a routine aerial survey conducted by a British oil exploration team from
the D'Arcy Oil Company. The plane was intact and the radio still worked!!! Thanks
to British Petroleum work parties, and an aerial survey by the Air Force RF-101
reconnaissance fighters (which found 1 body), 8 of the 9 bodies were recovered
in 1960. The remains of Staff Sergeant V.L. Moore was never found, which remain
unclaimed somewhere in the desert.
MANIFESTATIONS:
The
old Air Force relics and planes on display at the museum attract the spirits of
crew members killed in action or accidents, which liven up the lives of janitors
and guards, who have reported paranormal occurrences such as moving objects, unexplainable
voices, actual apparitions and eerie sounds. In one story I read, a janitor was
actually decked by an apparition out of control. Pilots and crew who loved their
planes while alive, are still attracted to them even when dead.
B24,
Lady Be Good airplane parts are on display - Luckily in a case.
The
airplane parts move around their display case by themselves.
The
Entities of the Nine Crew Members.... Are Restless
The
entities of the nine crew members are said to wander around the museum at night,
perhaps still looking for help which never came or their still missing comrade
never found by the living. Never leave a man behind is the long-held military
motto.
STILL
HAUNTED?
Yes indeed.
When young men die quickly
in battle or suffer a slow death, they sometimes have a hard time going to the
other side. because they still had a lot to do on earth, or are so traumatized
by their death, they stick around things which are familiar, looking for answers,
unable to rest.
