- Lake Murray’s ‘Fallen Warrior’ finds a home at the . . . - HistoryNet
The Southern Museum of Flight is building a new exhibit hall where the reassembled B-25 will eventually be displayed on a specially designed sand base, with lighting to make the aircraft look as though it is still resting on the bottom of Lake Murray
- Lake Murray’s Mitchell - Smithsonian Magazine
Today, some 130 remain, and the one from Lake Murray is the third oldest It is one of only four intact C models surviving, and the only B-25 that still has a bottom gun turret
- B-25 WWII plane retrieved from depths of Lake Murray
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
- B-25 History Project
On April 4, 1943 while on a training flight over Lake Murray, South Carolina piloted by 2nd Lt William C Fallon, she developed engine trouble while practicing skip bombing techniques
- B-25 Bomber Recovered from Lake Murray, SC - Flickr
Swimming across the lake to the light of a farmhouse, he was the only survivor from his plane The B-25 that was pulled from the lake on Sept 19, 2006 (after 66 years underwater) crashed landed just east of the Spence Islands--between the Spence Islands and the Lake Murray Dam
- WWII relic pulled from lake nearly ready for second life - WCIV
Propellers of a twin-engine 20,300-pound North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted by Army Air Service Col Dan Rossman, clipped the lake's surface, sending the mighty aircraft plunging to
- Lake Murray’s Bomb Island tied to WWII B-25 bombers | The State
Pilots on the mission began practicing for it over Lake Murray, specifically today’s Doolittle Island, which is named for Lt Col James Doolittle, who led the mission
- Exhibitions - Southern Museum of Flight
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
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