Remnants of a plane at Wright Patterson Air Force Museum hold quite the ghost story. This story comes from Sara’s book Dayton Ghosts & Legends:Lady Be Good – In 1943, 25 B-24Ds of the 376th Bomb Group took off from their base in Libya for an attack against facilities in Naples. All but one returned that night. The one missing was the Lady Be Good. It took nearly 16 years for the plane to be discovered in the Libyan desert. When a ground party reached the plane in March 1959, evidence showed the crew had gotten lost in the dark and flew south over the base into the desert. When the fuel ran out, the men attempted to flee from the plane and head north, back to base.

A long search for the remains returned eight of the nine crew members. One was located near the plane and seven were far north of the plane. Five of the crew had walked 78 miles before succumbing to the desert and one man had gone 109 miles. Additionally, the men had lived for eight days, which was miraculously longer than the two day survival expectation of men in those conditions. No trace of the ninth man was ever found.
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