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  1. Jan 23, 2017 · The world, was shocked by the death of Hollywood actress, Carole Lombard. On January 16 th, 1942 an airplane carrying Lombard crashed into Mount Potosi killing all 22 people on-board.

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  2. Dec 16, 2013 · The blanket-wrapped body of film actress Carole Lombard is removed from the shattered wreckage of the Los Angeles-bound TWA airliner on Mount Potosi, southwest of Las Vegas, on Jan. 16, 1942....

  3. Jan 19, 1992 · On a cold, clear night 50 years ago, a TWA plane lifted off from here on the last leg of a 17-hour flight carrying movie queen Carole Lombard home to Hollywood. Lombard, returning from a patriotic pilgrimage, would die minutes later in a fiery crash on Mount Potosi, 30 miles to the southwest.

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  4. Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

  5. May 25, 2020 · How Carole Lombard Became Hollywood’s First Casualty of World War II. Beloved star died in plane crash after launching the nation's first war bond sales drive. By Cynthia Littleton. Paramount...

  6. Jan 12, 2017 · On January 16, 1942, TWA Flight 3 struck Nevada's Mount Potosi at 200 miles an hour, killing Hollywood's brightest starlet, highest paid actress, and wife of 'King of Hollywood' Clark Gable -- Carole Lombard -- and 21 others, in a fireball seen in the moonless sky for fifty miles.

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  8. But instead of returning home to California, they met an unfortunate and untimely death when the plane they were on, Flight 3, crashed into the side of the treacherous Mount Potosi in Nevada....

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