is this based on actual events

Simply, no. The movie is based on a novel written by Elleston Trevor who was a flight engineer in the Royal Air Force during WWII.

Yes. It's ased on the actual events that occured in the 2004 versipn of the same name.

FOX Broadcasting's OFFICIAL petition site :: www.getarrested.com

In a very loose way, yes. Elleston Trevor deposited Frank Towns and company very near the place where a B-24 Liberator Bomber crashed in World War II and lay undiscovered for 16 years. Full details are available simply by Googling "Lady Be Good B-24," but suffice it to say that these men, who crashed due to a navigational error, showed astonishing courage and fortitude in attempting to walk out of their desert hell. S-Sergeant Guy Shelley walked the furthest from the bailout point, 115 miles, which astonished desert survival specialists. This is the type of supra-human courage that Trevor was saluting when he dedicated the book to the kind of man who, "when faced with dying or doing the impossible, elects to live."