In 2017, a luxury private motorboat sped across Lake Murray. Suddenly, someone on the boat shouted, "Look! There's something in the water! "Everyone looked down and saw a huge metal object looming under the water, which was so strange!
This is Lake Murray in South Carolina, usa, there must be something very special under the lake, so what is it? And what makes this person so excited?
To get this straight, we have to talk about the historical background of Lake Murray.
During World War II, the area around Lake Murray in South Carolina, THE United States, had a complex topography comparable to a real battlefield. Coupled with the sparse population, the US military opened up this place as a military training ground.
Many of the U.S. military's new weapons will be tested here, and some young pilots will also fly fighters to conduct flight and live-fire exercises in this area.
Because it is a secret military training base, few people can set foot here. Until the end of World War II, the military training ground was completely abandoned.
In the decades that followed, the Lake Murray area was developed and upgraded, and the vast lake surface and surrounded by green trees became an excellent tourist attraction.
During this period, people continued to find fragments of weapons and equipment left over from the Second World War in the underground near Lake Murray.
This information immediately attracted the attention of a senior collector in the United States. He thought there must be something in Lake Murray.
So the collector began to consult a lot of World War II materials, without missing any clues. The kung fu paid off, and he found an important piece of information that made him ecstatic.
According to the data, when a B-25 bomber was training in the Lake Murray area, it suddenly malfunctioned, and the pilot parachuted to escape, while the plane fell into Murray.
Decades passed, and the news was never remembered again. The B-25 bomber should still be at the bottom of Lake Murray. That's why the collector was excited.
He decided to salvage the B-25 bomber from the bottom of the lake. To be on the safe side and to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future, collectors first asked the U.S. military for permission.
The military quickly approved his request, because they felt that a wrecked World War II plane that had been soaked in water for decades would have little use value for salvaging, and it would not be worth a few dollars to sell scrap iron. If you want to salvage, you can salvage, everything does not represent the U.S. military.
With permission, the collector seemed to have obtained the Sword of Shangfang, and he immediately set about salvaging the B-25 bomber.
The B-25 was one of the best bombers before the end of World War II. In the Pacific theater, it played a very important role.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and inflicted heavy losses on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. On April 18, 1942, the US military began to take revenge, 16 B-25 bombers took off from the "Hornet" aircraft carrier, a long-distance 1,000 kilometers, bombed the Japanese mainland, and achieved very good results.
Collectors first searched the entire lake area to determine the exact location of the aircraft, and then found a professional salvage team and successfully salvaged the B-25 bomber.
Although the metal skeleton and skinned part of the aircraft are still intact after decades of soaking in the lake water, the soft bag part has been decayed or lost. It is possible that when the plane fell into the lake, there was a violent collision, and the wings and engines were seriously damaged.
Even so, the collector was excited, and the dilapidated bomber had immeasurable value in his eyes.
When the plane appeared on the shore, everyone thought it was amazing, they had lived by the lake for decades, and they never imagined that there was such a bomber in the lake.
Now, the World War II bomber is back in the light of day, and they are proud of it. #I'm going to make micro-headlines##老照片 #
