By
Scott Schwartz
In
civilian life, he was a bank clerk. He
was the man who was responsible for getting Lady
Be Good to and from her targets, yet the entries on his navigation log were
spotty in some cases, and incorrect in others-which may have indicated has
state of mind on the mission. Navigator
Dp Hays (Hays never received an actual first name- the other crew members
called him “Deep”) apparently was an austere, unsmiling man from Sedalia,
Missouri, whose quiet demeanor and partial baldness made him seem to be older
than his twenty four years. After
attending community college for two years Hays joined the Air Corps in January
of 1942.
Lady Be Good’s bombardier was 2nd
Lieutenant John Woravka. Hailing from
Cleveland, Ohio, Woravka was twenty six years old in 1943. He sent a cable from the base in Africa to
his brother. It was Woravka’s last
message to is family. In the message, he
told his brother not to worry.
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