English: A damaged propeller from the Lady Be Good displayed in Lake Linden, Michigan. The text of the plaque reads “This propeller is from the four-engine B-24 Liberator bomber, serial number 41-24301, Lady Be Good which crashed in the Libyan desert 880 miles southeast of Wheelus Air Base on 5 April 1943, after a bombing raid on Naples, Italy. The aircraft operating from an airfield near Benghazi with the 514th Bomb Squadron, was reported missing in action and its fate was not known until discovery of the wreckage in May 1959. Subsequent searches in the Libyan desert recovered remains of eight of her nine crew members. Placed 19 January 1961.” A placard to the side reads “Lake Linden’s Robert E. LaMotte was a radio operator and gunner on the ‘Lady be Good’ a B25 bomber active during WWII. On April 5th, 1943 at 2:00 a.m., returning from a bombing raid to Italy, the crew was forced to parachute over the Libyan desert. All nine members of the crew subsequently perished. / Octave DuTemple of Lake Linden saw the ‘Lady Be Good’ propeller at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya in 1968 when he was on an inspection tour with the United States Department of Defense. / DuTemple initiated the request for the propeller to be sent to Lake Linden as a memorial to all veterans and their families. / The Village of Lake Linden President Walter Laverdiere [1923–2014], with support from United States Congressman Philip Ruppe, eventually arranged for the shipment of the propeller to Lake Linden.”