From the April 17, 2009 Columbia (SC) State.
World War II required lots of airplane personnel and they trained in the United States. of course, when you take numbers like that and inexperience, there are bound to be accidents and deaths, all part of the general war effort.
Back three years ago, a memorial to 13 World War II aviators who died in training missions in Lake Murray, near Columbia, was dedicated to coincide with the Doolittle Reunion.
In September 2005, a B-25C bomber was pulled of the lake, restored and is now on display at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of five planes that crashed into the lake during training missions.
The local Army Air Corps Base, now Columbia Metropolitan Airport was one of two US bases B-25 crews trained at. Bulls Eyes were painted on Skull and Bone islands for pilots and crews to practice. Over the course of the war, five bombers and one seaplane crashed in the lake, killing 13 aviators.
More to Come. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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