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Lead-up. A North American B-25 Mitchell like N3443G. Around 30 parachutists arrived at Ortner Airport in Wakeman, Ohio, on August 27, 1967, to skydive together from a privately-owned North American B-25 Mitchell bomber ( registration N3443G [8] ). [9] After a previous paid performance at an air show, the bomber's owner, Bob Karns, had offered a ...
Geographic features. Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [8] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [7] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [7] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [7] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes ...
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (historically referred to as the "Big Blow", [3] [a] the "Freshwater Fury", and the "White Hurricane") was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from November 7 to 10, 1913.
Below is a list of ports in the Great Lakes region, which includes Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior, as well as the smaller Lake St. Clair. Lake Superior [ edit ] Michigan [ edit ]
The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projected this year's harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie to fall between 4.5 and 7.5 on the severity scale. The bloom in 2023 reached a 5 ...
Huron, Ohio. / 41.38306°N 82.55944°W / 41.38306; -82.55944. Huron is a city in Erie County, Ohio, United States, located at the mouth of the Huron River on Lake Erie. The population was 6,922 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Sandusky micropolitan area .
The Soo Locks between Lake Superior and the St. Marys River. The Great Lakes Waterway ( GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals which enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes. [1] Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries by ...