Submerged bomber lifted from Lake Murray’s bed (WWII B-25)

Charlotte Observer ^ | 9/21/05 | TIM FLACH

[Rebelbase]

[YouPosting2Me]

Mitchell Ping

[Rebelbase]

Private enterprise, no Goverment Agency involved! http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2005/0916/Front_Page/001.html

Check out the model that was created to assist in the recovery. Feds would have let bids for the model and probably would have spent $500,000 on it:

[Gamecock]

Legend has it that the farmers daughters used to sunbathe naked out there. The pilots caught wind of it and started flying low and slow to catch a peek. One plane got a little to slow, and a little to low, and now they are pulling it out of Lake Murray.

[Professional Engineer]

Foxhole Air Corp ping

[StrangerInParadise]

Aviatrix ping

[Gamecock]

For consideration on your respective ping lists.

[Gamecock]

Ooops, please pardon the typos!

[wizr]

save for later

[Uncle George]

Shades of the B-25 recovered from Huntington Lake Ca. Back in the 60's

[Doofer]

[Nathan Zachary]

It looks in fairly good condition considering it's been under water all these years.

[TalonDJ]

Hope those boys got a good look ;D

[Young Werther]

And the mystery of the B-25 sunk in the river by Pittsburgh.

"The biggest river mystery in Pittsburgh is the sinking of the B25 bomber in the Mon near the Hi-Level Bridge in 1956. The airforce says it is still there but it has never been found! Many people report having seen it being salvaged and hauled away during that same night."

[ZULU]

B-25 was the Liberator???

[Robert A Cook PE]

No.

B-24 was Liberator. 25 was Mitchell (US) and Hudson (?) for Brit's.

[OKSooner]

The Liberator was a B-24, also called "Flying Coffins" by the krauts.

[Moose4]

Very cool. I always remembered hearing stories, living in Columbia, that there were B-25s crashed in Lake Murray, but I thought they were just tall tales. There's already a partially-restored B-25 parked in a rotting hangar down at Columbia Owens Downtown; supposedly *somebody* is going to restore it and put it out at Columbia Metro someday. Maybe.

}:-)4

[popdonnelly]

The Hudson was a different plane, built by Lockheed. It's an earlier design than the Mitchell, based on a civilian airliner. Some went to Great Britain under Lend-Lease.

[SAMWolf]

Cool!!