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What’s Really in Cross Lake?

Dr. Gary Joiner (foreground), an LSUS assistant professor of history, helps marine archaeologist Darrell Taylor lower a cesium magnetometer towed array into Cross Lake in February as part of a search for a World War II B-26 bomber reported to have crashed in the lake. The Cross Lake search was an extension of an expedition on Cross Bayou and the Red River in search of four Confederate submarines built in Shreveport during the Civil War. The mission was led by archaeologist Ralph Wilbanks, who discovered the “Hunley,” the first successful combat submarine, and was financed by best-selling author Clive Cussler. Of the search for the subs on the bayou and river, Wilbanks told The (Shreveport) Times reporter John Andrew Prime, a 1978 LSUS graduate. “Most of the time you find out where things aren’t. You very seldom find where things are.”

(NOTE: The printed version of this issue of LSUS News referred to the airplane thought to be in Cross Lake as a "B-29," instead of a B-26. LSUS News apologizes for any inconvenience or embarrassment the typographical error may have caused.)