From: packhow75 (tcb@hasher.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 12:48:13 PDT
Dont know how many Grumman Avengers were lost in training in Puget Sound...
but my father dropped one off the side of a carrier in 1943... so if anyone
finds one... would be interested in hearing from them.
Regards
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] [MVlist] Sunken B-25C bomber rescued
> Old bomber raised from Lake Murray; to go to Alabama
>
> Associated Press
>
>
> COLUMBIA, S.C. - A World War II bomber has been raised
> from Lake Murray, where it crashed on a training
> mission more than 60 years ago.
>
> The plane crashed April 4, 1943, the crew escaping
> safely while the plane sank in 150 feet of water.
>
> The B-25C was raised to the surface shortly before 9
> p.m. Monday to the cheers of about 500 people watching
> from a nearby landing.
>
> Watching the slow preparations to raise the bomber
> made Robert Barnes of Irmo feel like he was back in
> the Army.
>
> "It's hurry up and wait all over again," the former
> artilleryman, 83, said.
>
> Workers had hoped to raise the plane Saturday, but
> called off the attempt because they needed equipment
> to prevent the plane's damaged nose from breaking off
> in the water.
>
> The bomber will be taken apart over the next three or
> four days. Once it's disassembled, the airplane will
> be shipped to the Museum of Southern Flight in
> Birmingham, Ala.
>
> After restoration, it will be the centerpiece of a new
> wing at the museum.
>
>
>
> --- Wayne Harris <wharris19@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Saw some of this on the news tonight. It was in a
>> lake in South Carolina.
>> Wayne
>>
>>
> http://www.thestate.com/multimedia/thestate/KRT_packages/np_fronts/a1.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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