Hubby and I spent several hours doing business in Cullman. When we finished, we rode through the Historic area in Cullman, where we saw several murals that represented Cullman in the 1880s.
DT Kinney Horse & Mules
Cullman County Historical Society
We took a different route home and came across a historic marker.
The "Katy-Did" Crash
Eight U.S. Army Air Corps officers and enlisted men were killed one-fourth mile east of here near the Roundtop Community on Sunday, April 9, 1944, at 2:20 P.M. when their B-26C Martin Marauder bomber, nicknamed the "Katy-Did," crashed nose-down, at full throttle, and exploded. The warplane was on an official flight from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, to Memphis, Tennessee, when it encountered a severe thunderstorm. Witnesses reported that the plane reappeared from the heavy storm clouds upside down before crashing.
The victims were:
Col. Lucius B. Manning, base commander, Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, Georgia;
Capt. Howard L. Hardy, pilot, La Harpe, Kansas;
Capt. Arthur J. Gratis, co-pilot, Seattle, Washington;
Sgt. John W. Haney, engineer, Buffalo, New York;
Pvt. Matthew J. Geoghegan, mechanic, Bronx, New York;
Pvt. John H. Bailey, radioman, Trenton, New Jersey;
Sgt. James R. Smith, St. Maire, Idaho;
1st Lt. Hugh Williams, Jr., Megehee, Arkansas.
We saw an Eagle perched on a power pole as we neared Wheeler Dam.
Along the bank of the Tennessee River below Wheeler Dam, we saw these shorebirds.
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