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FOUND! Wreckage from World War 2 Cargo Plane in the Adirondacks
Their goal was to find a plane that crashed back in 1944 at the height of World War 2. It took this group of adventurers two years to locate the wreckage, but back in 2021 they pushed through the brush and the hills of Blue Ridge Mountain and finally came upon the site. The remains of the plane are still there.
According to the Buffalo News, the plane took off from Syracuse Air Force Base in September of 1944. There were three airmen on the flight, that was supposed to cover western and northern New York State. For reasons that are unclear, the plane went down on Blue Ridge Mountain in the Hamilton County town of Benson, near Speculator. It wasn't until nearly a year later when another plane flying over the area spotted the wreckage. The bodies were recovered and the site was left virtually untouched.
Fifty-three years later, a non-profit group took it upon itself to once again locate the crash site so it could be properly memorialized. That moment happened in 1997.
Still, the crash site is very hard to get to, so not many people have been known to visit it over the years. Last year, however, a group of hikers made it their goal to find it. After two days of hiking through the heavy woods, they found the wreckage scattered across one particular are of the mountain.
What remains is an area of twisted metal, but there are parts of the wings, the engine, and some of the landing gear that are still identifiable.
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