[ARC5] LAst Flight of The LAdy Be Good

[Hubert Miller]

The book "Last Flight of the Lady Be Good" does not break a lot of new ground, but on the other hand,
it makes no pretensions and is not at all expensive. 

"A C-54 with salvaged propeller synchronizers [ i.e. from the 'Lady Be Good' ] had to throw its cargo
overboard to avoid ditching because of propeller problems. A C-47 whose radio operator had removed
the radio set from the Lady Be Good as a souvenir, crashed in the Mediterranean and was lost. An Army
DHC-3 Otter plane that crashed in the Gulf of Sidra had onboard a copy of an armrest from the Lady Be
Good. Only a few traces washed ashore - one of these was the armrest."

I have no idea what "copy of armrest" means. 

"Over the years pieces of the plane were stripped by souvenir hunters or oil exploration workers...By the
early 1970s the Lady Be Good had been stripped down to the frame...in August 1994, what remained...
was moved...to a military barracks in Tobruk. 
"After being briefly at the former El Adem airfield...south of Tobruk, it was moved back to the barracks 
compound around 2010. A last report from a visitor indicated the remains were now stored in a yard
behind a school and in a sorry state. The local authorities needed more room for the school and used a 
shovel loader to push the pieces around."

I am just guessing, but I would guess the "souvenir" was the BC-348. 
-Hue Miller