Unique photos and video of a rare Martin Baltimore WW2 bomber found in Ikaria island, Greece

[pierre-sifnos]

Dubbed the “forgotten bomber” because none of the 1,574 Baltimores built by Martin survive today, this Baltimore is possibly the only one worldwide that is preserved to this day at a depth of just 18 metres in the sea where, according to Greek mythology, Icarus, the son of Daedalus, the first man to ever fly, was lost.

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[JMBL]

Nice article. Thanks for sharing.

 

[pierre-sifnos]

It's the only Martin Baltimore surviving to this day, out of the 1,574 built during WW2