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. The B-25 that was pulled from the lake on Sept. 19, 2006 (after 66 years underwater) crashed landed just east of the Spence Islands--between the Spence Islands and the Lake Murray Dam. All of it's crewmen were able to abandon the plane and were picked up by local fishermen as the plane sank to the bottom in about 100 feet of water. The starboard engine was ripped off in the crash and landed elsewhere, but it, too, was recovered by divers in 2006. Today, Bomb Island is a bird sanctuary populated mostly by migrating Martins. There are still many bomb fragments and even whole bombs found on the island from time to time as the edges erode from the waves crash against and diminish the size of the island. The raising of this B-25 was financed by a dentist or doctor in Birmingham, AL and was partially dismantled and transported by truck to Birmingham where it is being somewhat restored for display in an aviation museum.