The Lady Be Good – my first photobook
Wreckage of the WWII B24 Lady Be Good

The Lady Be Good – my first photobook

So, after several weeks and several false starts my first book is now available! You can preview and order it below.

I decided to use the Be Good as my first book as I still find this to be a compelling story all these years later.

In short, in 1943 a B-24D Liberator bomber took off on it's first mission of the war and never returned. No wreckage was found and the disappearance of the plane became just another statistic of the war. Then, 15 years later in 1958, an oil exploration crew on a an aerial survey spotted the wreckage of a B24 deep in the Libyan Desert, some 400 miles inland from Benghazi. It was another year before the plane was visited and a year after that before the remains of eight of the crew of nine were found.

I started my career in oil exploration also in in December 1984 but it would be six years later, in December 1990, before I got to see the wreck and take some photographs. Those photos have been languishing in my file drawers for the last 20 years so I thought it was finally time to share them, hence the book!