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John S Woravka


World War II · US Army

United States of America

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Birth, Custom, Enlistment, Military Service, Other, PeopleUS, WWII Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
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Index RecordNov 27, 2008

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Lady be Good (aircraft)
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April 4
1943
26°42′45.7″N 24°01′27″E? / ?26.712694, 24.02417
http://www.footnote.com/wiki/File:Flag_of_Libya.svg
Libya
B-24D Liberator
http://www.footnote.com/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg
United States Army Air Force
http://www.footnote.com/wiki/File:Flag_of_Italy_(1861-1946)_crowned.svg
Naples
United States Army Air Forces
World War II
Benina Airfield
Soluch
Sahara
Italy
376th Bomb Group
MIA
Mediterranean
1 Background and mission
2 Wreckage found
3 Bodies recovered
4 Aftermath
5 Cultural references
6 References
7 External links
March 18
March 25
1st Lt.
Whitestone, New York
2nd Lt.
North Attleborough, Massachusetts
Lee's Summit, Missouri
Cleveland, Ohio
T/Sgt.
Saginaw, Michigan
Lake Linden, Michigan
S/Sgt.
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
New Boston, Ohio
Eureka, Illinois
automatic direction finder
flares
February 27
1959
May 16
1958
June 15
Wheelus Air Base
May 26
[1]
altitude sickness
sand dunes
Mae West
[2]
Graves Registration
HF/DF
[3]
Gulf of Sidra
[4]
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Village Hall
Royal Air Force
USAF
McDonnell Douglas
Tobruk
http://www.footnote.com/wiki/File:B-24_Lady_Be_Good_diorama_at_Lone_Star_Flight_Museum.jpg
Diorama
Lone Star Flight Museum
Sole Survivor (1970 film)
(see IMDB entry)
B-25
[5]
King Nine Will Not Return
The Twilight Zone
[6]
The Flight of the Phoenix
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"Lady Be Good" B-24 Bomber, Quartermaster Graves Registration Search and Recovery
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Fact Sheets : Consolidated B-24D “Lady Be Good” : Consolidated B-24D “Lady Be Good”
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Sole Survivor
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"The Twilight Zone" King Nine Will Not Return (1960)
376th heavy bomb group
"Lady Be Good" B-24 Bomber
Lady Be Good fact sheet from the National Museum of the USAF