WWII Aircraft Wrecks In Lakes

[MIflyer]

Never new there were B-25s on the bottom.

By some estimates there are as many as 25 of them there. An island in the lake was used for bombing practice and Columbia Army Air Base probably was the main B-25 training base. There was a proposal to recover them for scrapping in the 60's but that never occurred.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Here are some shots of a B-25 they got out of Lake Murray in SC. Unlike the one from Lake Greenwood, it was not very intact.

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Come on! A little Bondo and some paint, good as new!

 

[CATCH 22]

Come on! A little Bondo and some paint, good as new!

Actually they left the a/c as is:

 

[Tony Kambic]

I made this images in 2016 at Chino.