(Irmo) Sept. 21, 2005 - For the first time Wednesday, WIS was able to get a look into the cockpit of the B-25 bomber brought up from Lake Murray. A history buff at heart, B-25 expedition leader Dr.

EVERETT — Paine Field has a special visitor this weekend: Maid in the Shade, a B-25 Mitchell bomber that flew 15 combat missions during World War II. The sight of the airplane on the tarmac outside ...

The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium bomber workhorse. On paper, the B-25 was not particularly spectacular: it had two engines, a pencil-like fuselage, ...