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Vignette: Film actress Carole Lombard dies in plane crash

Carole Lombard died, this week in the war on 16 January 1942. She had been helping the US war effort by promoting the sale of war bonds in Indiana, where she boarded a regular scheduled flight home to California. The … Continue reading

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