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The strange tale of the ‘Lady Be Good’

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By Bill Lombardi Hometown Weekly Correspondent In the late afternoon of April 3, 1943, 25 U.S. B-24 planes took off from Soluch, Libya to bomb the German forces in Naples. Their mission was to drop bombs on strategic enemy targets and return to base. Of the 25 planes only one, the “Lady Be Good,” failed to...
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