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B-25 Bomber Recovered from Lake Murray, SC
in Member Articles, War Articles / by Jack / on September 6, 2012 at 13:30 /

Archive: This WWII B-25 Bomber crash landed in Lake Murray in 1942. It was one of the bombers used by the Doolittle Raider back-up flight crews practicing for the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo that took place on April 18, 1942. Lunch Island (then called “Bomb Island”) is an island in the middle of Lake Murray that the crews used to practice their bombing runs. They flew in low to simulate being below Japanese radar.

Lake Murray history indicates that 23 of the B-25s crashed into the lake during those bombing runs–many at night with very inexperienced crews. I personally knew and later worked for Ed Armstrong, the bombardier on one of the B-25s that crashed into the lake. Swimming across the lake to the light of a farmhouse, he was the only survivor from his plane.

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/member- ... ay-sc.html

Very old news. Was brought out of the lake in 2005.

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