[ARC5] ARC-5/SCR-274 Navigation Receivers?

[Greg Mijal]

Mike:
Before you indict the navigator and the rest of that crew you may want to do 
a little more research on the subject.
Here's some things I am aware of:
This was the Lady Be Good's  and the crew's first mission in a war zone.
The mission included flying at night.
Bombing missions frequently used a lead plane with highly expereinced pilots 
and navigator to bring the flight in and out.
As a Viet Nam combat veteran I  cannot let the comment pass nor am I angry 
about the posting.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-5/SCR-274 Navigation Receivers?


>> Remember the B-24 returning to his base in, I think, Libya, after
>> bombing the continent?  Was homing (DF I guess) on his station, but flew
>> over it without realizing that and  ran out of fuel some hundreds of
>> miles into the desert where he crash-landed.
>
> That was the "Lady Be Good", a B-24D.  It and the crew were on their
> very first combat mission, to Naples on 4 April 1943.  They turned back
> without dropping bombs and wound up over-flying their return destination
> by two hours and 400 miles, all the time thinking that they were still
> over the Mediterranean.  The crew eventually bailed out, so their bodies
> were quite some distance away from where the aircraft self-landed in the
> desert.  The crash was sighted in November, 1958, and first visited in
> February 1959, all by British oil exploration people.  The navigator's
> plotting instruments were found stored, so it appears that very little
> or no course plotting was being performed for the trip by navigator DP 
> Hays.
>
> Its one of those sad things in which poor crew performance got the crew
> killed and their aircraft wasted while accomplishing absolutely nothing
> positive toward the war effort.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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