From: bolton8@juno.com
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 18:39:55 PDT
David Bryant wrote:
I remember something like that, but the missing crew member was under the
collapsed tail of the plane,
Jeff wrote:
The Movie you are talking about was I believe a twilight zone episode.
GENTLEMEN,
You are recalling two different TV episodes. The LADY BE GOOD
took off on 4 April 1943 for its first and last mission. They bombed
the Naples Harbor, and on her return flight the navigator overshot the
North African coast line and continued flying south over the Libya
desert. The ripples of the desert sand at night looked like the ripples
of the Mediterranean.
The remains of the THE LADY BE GOOD was discovered on 9 November
1958 by an oil exploration aircraft. Due to the extreme dry conditions
of the Libya desert when a search crew reached the wreckage not only did
they find coffee in the thermos, but the .50 cals were fully operational.
The media had a field day with this, but it spawned a couple of TV
shows relating to it.
The made-for-TV-movie about the crewman whos body was under the
tail section of the B-24 stared Richard Basehart as General Hammond. In
the movie the navigator 'Lt. Hammond' bailed out and survived the war.
The remainder of the crew were killed and spent the next 17 years playing
baseball beside the bomber. The crewman who was under the tail section
was reaching for a canteen of water when the tail broke loose and killed
him.
When the wreckage was found Hammond, now a General was sent out
with the recovery crew where the ghosts of the dead crew members
recognized him.
The Twilight Zone episode starred Bob Cummings who spent most of
the show around his crashed B-24 calling for his buddies. He thought
they were playing a joke on him. He realized something was wrong when he
heard and identified F-4 Phantoms flying overhead. Scene changes to a
hospital where Cummings is now under sedation.
The attending physician explains that Cummings had read in that
morning's newspaper that recovery crews had discovered the aircraft which
Cummings commanded, and bailed out of during the war. This sudden awaking
of suppressed memories had caused Cummings to have an emotional breakdown
and imagine he was back in the desert with his aircraft. At that time
the doctor picks up one of Cumming's shoes and pours desert sand out of
it.
LANCE
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