Jeff Ell

Twisted aluminum aircraft panel with blue paint and rows of holes lying among dry leaves and rocks.

Wreck of the ‘ol 29281

Seventy years ago this winter, a B-25 aircraft carrying five crew members slammed into the side of Sharp Top Mountain. Pieces of the wreckage – silent and eerie reminders of the men and of another era – are still strewn on the mountainside.

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