By
Scott Schwartz
With Hatton's decision to about the mission and head back to base, Lady Be Good departed Naples on a South East heading of 140 degrees. Lady Be Good was roughly seven hundred miles from her home base, and she only had four hours of fuel left. Clearly, navigation errors could be disastrous. Further, the aircraft was still three hundred, fifty miles North East of Malta. The crew was apprehensive about whether the radio operators on Malta would be able to pick up Lady Be Good's transmissions at that distance.
To be continued...
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