[Milsurplus] Bomber Fantasy Camp, OK

[Ray Fantini]

My understanding was that it was an AN/ARC-1 VHF transceiver that was thought to be working better than the one that was in the C-47 that was taken to the site so they decided to change out the radio with the one from the LBG. 

Wikipedia has the following:
After some parts were salvaged from the Lady Be Good and technically evaluated, they were reused in other planes belonging to the American military. However some planes that received these spares developed unexpected problems.[8] A C-54, which had several autosyn transmitters from the Lady Be Good installed, had to throw cargo overboard to land safely because of propeller difficulties. A C-47 that received a radio receiver crashed into the Mediterranean. A U.S. Army de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter with an armrest from the bomber crashed in the Gulf of Sidra. Only a few traces of the plane washed ashore and one of these was the armrest from the Lady Be Good.

The Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson has an extensive display in the WW2 gallery in one of the back corners including an engine, several small items including the navigators compass.

I have always been festinated by the entire story considering the limitations of early ADF systems and the apparent errors by the navigator, pilot and copilot.

Ray F

-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hue Miller
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 4:54 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Bomber Fantasy Camp, OK

Well, the 'storage conditions' were about ideal. The coffee was still drinkable; the machineguns worked. IIR, the borrowed radio was a VHF set.
I have no idea, never seen any word on what happened to the HF radios. 
Perhaps they disappeared with some of the ground search crew or one of the oil exploration crews. There used to be some hope that Qaddafi would 'eventually' put the remaining wreckage into some kind of museum, or not, but with the present chaos of medieval Islamics caught up in murdering  and plundering each other's cult, there's probably no hope anything marketable remains.
-Hue

>Then there is the incident where a USAF assessment crew flew a C-47 out 
>the the Lady Be Good site some time after it was discovered.  During 
>the course of the mission, a receiver (Command set /BC-348?) flamed out in the C-47.
>They took a receiver from the rack in the B-24 wreckage, plugged it in 
>to the C-47 (naturally it was still working fine) and they were back in 
>business....
Good gear,,,Tim N6CC

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