Tag: search and rescue

Rescue from Fire Island

by Richard Green, posted in Digitization, U.S. Coast Guard, World War I

This post was written by Harry Kidd.  Harry is a volunteer at the National Archives working on textual and photographic digitization projects.  Harry is a former Navy photographer himself and came across this story while researching military photographers.  In the early morning of January 1st 1919 Surfman Roger Smith reported sighting the U.S.S. Northern Pacific … Continue reading Rescue from Fire Island

Lost and Found: The Story of ‘Lady Be Good’ and Her Crew

by Kaitlyn Crain Enriquez, posted in Photographs

Lost On April 4, 1943, a B-24D Liberator nicknamed Lady Be Good took off from Soluch, an airstrip located near Bengazi, Libya, for what would be her first and final mission. During that fateful trip, Lady Be Good carried nine members of the 514th Squadron, 376th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force. Their names: 1st Lieutenant … Continue reading Lost and Found: The Story of ‘Lady Be Good’ and Her Crew