Battered Shell Of WWII Aircraft Considered Long-Time Eyesore

It's like watching the exhumation of an open grave. Workers in downtown Florence, SC, Monday will begin hauling away the carcass of a World-War II era DC-3 that's been sitting on top of a trash heap for years.

Perched atop wrecked cars, discarded mattresses and other household junk, the DC-3 has been an unwanted blemish on the Florence landscape for years. Now, Florence city officials have decided the Bush Recycling facility is on prime property and should be appropriately developed. So, with no fanfare, the DC-3 -- a venerable, if not battered, bit of aviation history, will be hauled away with the other wrecked cars, broken washing machines and rusted pipes.

"That airplane is a symbol of the whole downtown redevelopment effort," Roy Adams, downtown development coordinator for the city of Florence, told the Florence Morning News. "Symbolically, it opens up the North Gateway of Florence for redevelopment."

While the carcass will be moved to another Bush-owned property in Florence, there's no immediate word on the ultimate fate of the aircraft. Like many veterans of the wars our country fought in the last century, it appears destined for an ignoble, unremembered end.

FMI: www.cityofflorence.com