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Vanishings!

Season 1 · Episode 6

Lost in Libya

0.022mJuly 26, 2003

On April 4, 1943, a flight of US B-24 Liberator bombers took off from a desert airbase in Libya. Their target was the harbor of Naples--750 miles away.

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Episodes

Episode 1Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Episode 2Foo Fighters
Episode 3Die Another Day: Surviving The Andes
Episode 4Lost in the Amazon
Episode 5Whatever Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
Episode 6Lost in Libya
Episode 7Wrong Way Corrigan
Episode 8WWI Ace Balloon Buster
Episode 9Mystery of the Missing Comet
Episode 10Movie Star or Spy?
Episode 11Disappearance of Donald Campbell
Episode 12Disappearance of Donald Crowhurst
Episode 13The Kursk Lost At Sea
Episode 14The Gaul Lost At Sea
Episode 15The pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. In the summer of 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
Episode 16The Disappearance Of Amy Johnson
Episode 17Lost In The Arctic
Episode 18Stardust Lost In The Andes
Episode 19USS Scorpion Lost At Sea
Episode 20Mallory And Irvine
Episode 21Mallory and Irvine
Episode 22The Disappearance Of Charles Kingsford Smith
Episode 23Disappearance of Buster Crabb
Episode 24Lord Lucan: Murderer on the Run
Episode 25The Missing Prime Minister
Episode 26Disappearance of John Stonehouse