By
Scott Schwartz
Lady Be Good was now on her own. The two B-24's ahead of her, and on whose navigation Hatton was relying on, had aborted the mission due to rough-running engines. The sandstorm had done its work thoroughly. Lady Be Good's engines were running fine, but she was alone. I remind the reader that this was the crew's first combat mission, and the responsibility for finding the target lay with inexperienced navigator Dp Hays. Inexperienced and unsure of himself, Hays apparently made a course correction in order to compensate for the high winds connected with the sandstorm. But, by this time, Lady Be Good had been blown eastward, toward Greece, and she was still some 380 miles from Naples.
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