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Sep 12, 2016 · Lake Murray B-25 Exhibit. Featured on the History Channel, The Lake Murray B-25 was recovered from the depths of Lake Murray, South Carolina in 2005 after 62 years. Lake Murray was home to “ Bomb Island ”, where the USAAF conducted training exercises during World War II.
Feb 4, 2020 · Hodge worked through the legal entanglements and secured salvage rights from the owners of the lake, South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. With funds and legal details worked out, the ad hoc nonprofit organization, dubbed The Lake Murray B-25 Rescue Project Inc., hired aviation salvage expert Gary Larkin and his team to recover the plane.
Records indicate that at least five B-25s crashed into the lake, three were immediately salvaged, and at least one remained abandoned at the bottom of Lake Murray. On April 4, 1943, a B-25 took off from the Army Air Base outside Columbia on a skip-bombing mission over the lake s island targets. The crew ditched in the water about two miles west ...
Lake Murray’s Mitchell. For a B-25, it was a short flight and a 62-year layover. Kay Gordon January 2007. The C was the first B-25 with a navigator's blister (behind the cockpit). ...
Sep 16, 2005 · Sixty–two years after plunging into Lake Murray, one of the last remaining Army Air Corps war planes has been rescued from 150 feet beneath the lake’s surface. According to the expedition’s leader, Dr. Robert Seigler, the retrieval of the now rare B–25C bomber took several days. Divers worked on mixed gases, at depth, to attach special ...
Developed from. North American NA-40. Developed into. North American XB-28 Dragon. The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. [2]
Jul 14, 2019 · Propellers of a twin-engine 20,300-pound North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted by Army Air Service Col. ... another B-25 sank to the bottom of Lake Murray, where it remains today.
