Made during WW II, this instructional film resonates strongly and even eerily with a real event that occurred in May of 1943. This was the loss of the "Lady Be Good," a B-24D assigned to the 376th Bomb Group then based at Soluch in Lybia. Returning from their first raid, over Italy, the novice crew overshot Soluch and had to bail out some 400 miles south of their base-in the middle of the desert. Neither the plane nor any of its crew was discovered until found accidentally by oil researchers in 1960. The makers of this film therefore could not have known how close to a real scenario they were describing. What is a little uncanny about the film is that the plane forced down in the desert is a B-24D-the very same type of aircraft as "Lady Be Good." This represents yet another in the set of freaky circumstances surrounding the real event.