Lady Be Good cruised along at two hundred miles per hour. During the ninety minutes that passed after La Motte apparently received a bearing from the Benghazi aircraft controllers, the crew had time to think. Hays puffed on cigarette after cigarette. The waist hatches were closed and the guns stowed. The crew figured that an attack by enemy fighters was unlikely. In reality, the opposite was true. Junkers Ju-88 night fighters patrolled on nights like these.
By 11:30 PM, Hatton was descending below 5,000 feet, so that he would be able to spot the coast. He was sure that Lady Be Good was approaching Benghazi.
More to come.
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