To Be or Not to Be
1942
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Jan 16, 2017 · 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.
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.
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Gable and Lombard met in 1932 during the filming of No Man of Her Own. He was just starting out on his trajectory as one of Hollywoods top leading men and she was a talented comedic actress trying to prove herself in more serious roles. Both were married at the timeGable to a wealthy Texas widow 10 years his senior and Lombard to the actor William ...
On the way home, however, Lombard didnt want to wait for the train, and instead boarded the TWA DC-3 in Las Vegas with her mother, Elizabeth Peters, and a group that included the MGM publicity agent Otto Winkler and 15 young Army pilots. Shortly after takeoff, the plane veered off course. Warning beacons that might have helped guide the pilot had b...
Hysterical with grief and adrift in the empty house he had shared with Lombard, Gable drank heavily and struggled to complete his work on Somewhere Ill Find You. He was comforted by worried friends, including the actress Joan Crawford. That August, Gable decided to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces. He spent most of the war in the United Kingdom, ...
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Soldiers prepare to lower the bodies of persons killed in the crash of a TWA airliner, one of which was Carole Lombard. Scattered below the rugged... Burdened with ropes and tarpaulin, these soldiers and possemen start climbing 8,500 foot Double Peak, near Las Vegas to begin grim and dangerous task...
Jun 2, 2013 · CAROLE LOMBARD 16mm CRASH FOOTAGE. TWA Flight 3 plane crash aftermath filmed on Mount Potosi near Good Springs, Nevada on the morning of January 17, 1942, following the crash the evening...
Jan 15, 2017 · FAA accident investigator Mike McComb, 50, points an attitude gyro flight instrument plate towards the 1942 DC-3 crash site that killed actress Carole Lombard and 21 others, Saturday,...
All 22 people on board, including movie star Carole Lombard, her mother, and three crew members, died in the crash. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined that the cause was a navigation error by the captain.
