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Vingegaard has collapsed lung after crash in Basque Country race. Tour de France defense is in doubt

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard remained hospitalized in Spain on Friday, one day after he broke his collarbone and several ribs in a bad crash with other top riders during a chaotic Tour of the Basque Country.

The Danish rider’s Visma-Lease A Bike team said further tests revealed that Vingegaard also sustained a collapsed lung and a pulmonary contusion during the crash in Thursday's fourth stage. The team said cycling’s leading rider was “stable and had a good night” but remains in a hospital in the northern Spanish city of Vitoria.

The accident came less than three months before the start of the Tour de France on June 29, when Vingegaard was scheduled to again face off against his leading rival, Tadej Pogačar. The highly anticipated rematch of former champions is now in doubt.

There was more carnage at the weeklong Tour of the Basque Country on Friday, when Mikel Landa and Soudal Quick-Step teammate Gil Gelders crashed in the fifth stage. Landa, the runner-up in the race in Spain a year ago, was put into a neck brace and taken away on a stretcher.

"(Landa) was taken to the local hospital where X-rays revealed that he has suffered a fracture to his clavicle. He will now undergo further investigation to determine the best path for his recovery,” Soudal Quick-Step said later Friday.

Romain Gregoire of Groupama-FDJ won Friday's stage in a reduced sprint. Mattias Skjelmose of Lidl-Trek remained in the overall lead heading into the final stage Saturday, which features a hard climb that could shake up the general classification.

Vingegaard was hardly moving Thursday when he was put into an ambulance wearing an oxygen mask and neck brace after the harrowing crash with less than 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) remaining in the stage. The pileup also took out Primoz Roglič and Remco Evenepoel, along with several other riders, many of whom needed treatment in hospitals.

Evenepoel broke a collarbone and his right shoulder blade and was set to undergo surgery when he returns to Belgium on Friday, Soudal Quick-Step said. Evenepoel said in a post on social media that “obviously my plans for the short future will change but I hope and think that my long-term goals will not change.”

The 24-year-old Evenepoel, a former road race world champion and the reigning time trial champ, is scheduled to make his Tour debut this summer before he participates in both of those events at the Paris Olympics.

Roglic, a three-time Spanish Vuelta winner, emerged with just scratches, according to his BORA-Hansgrohe team, but the reigning Olympic time-trial champion nevertheless had to abandon the race he was leading.

The accident happened Thursday as riders were making what appeared to be a conventional right-hand, downhill turn. One rider's front tire appeared to slip out and send other cyclists off the road. There were some large rocks and trees in the area, though it wasn’t clear if any of the riders hit them, along with a concrete drainage ditch on the edge of the curve.

Race director Julián Eraso said the accident was a surprise since the organizers considered the curve to be “easy” to handle.

“You never know where an accident can occur,” Eraso told Spanish radio Cadena SER. “This year the roads were good, wide, easy roads. That curve to the right was easy … (and) there was an indication a few meters before to let riders prepare for it.”

AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report.

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Vingegaard suffers broken collarbone after 'terrible' crash in Basque Country

T wo-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard broke his collarbone and several ribs after a horror mass crash during stage four of the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday.

"It was a terrible fall but thankfully he is in a stable condition and conscious," his team Visma-Lease a Bike reported on X.

"Tests in hospital have revealed that he has suffered a broken collarbone and several ribs. He remains under supervision at the hospital," the team added on the social media platform.

Belgian ace Remco Evenepoel was another to emerge battered and bruised from the horror accident.

"Remco will return to Belgium tomorrow to be operated on a broken collarbone and pass further tests at the hospital at Herentals," his Soudal-Quick Step team announced.

His injuries have ruled him out of upcoming one-day classics in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Other big names involved in the crash who were taken to hospital were Jay Vine and Steff Cras, while Primoz Roglic was also involved and did not finish the stage.

"Over the radio we heard that Jonas was involved in a big crash," said Visma sports director Addy Engels. "We immediately saw that it didn't look good when we arrived to him."

Despite the gravity of Vingegaard's injuries they came as almost a sense of relief that they were not more serious.

Several of the 12 riders involved in the crash fell into a concrete ditch after sliding off on a corner with around 35 kilometres to go in the run from Etxarri Aranatz to Legutio, in northern Spain.

The 2022 and 2023 Tour de France winner Vingegaard was taken to an ambulance on a stretcher, while Belgian Evenepoel was walking but his team Soudal Quick Step confirmed he was also going to hospital.

"Jonas is conscious and will be examined in the hospital now," Visma said at the scene.

"Thank you for your messages. More updates later," they added of their 27-year-old star who won the Basque Tour last year.

Last week Visma rider Wout van Aert suffered identical injuries in another bad crash at the Dwars door Vlaanderen one-day race.

Roglic, who also abandoned the race, offered a thumbs-up to television cameras while sitting in the Bora-Hansgrohe team car, to show he was not significantly injured.

UAE Team Emirates said their Australian rider Vine was also taken to hospital but was conscious and talking, along with Team TotalEnergies rider Cras.

The crash happened on the descent from the Alto de Olaeta after a rider in the front of the peloton slid off the road on a right-hand bend.

"Horrified by the crash we witnessed today. Our team was spared, but we feel for those who got caught," said team Decathlon-AG2R on X.

"We can only wish that all riders involved are not injured too seriously."

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A six-man breakaway was allowed to continue to try and race for the stage win in the final 18km, with Louis Meintjes crossing the line first.

"The race is neutralised until the finish line, the six leading riders will compete in the stage but the stage times will not be counted for the general classification," race organisers said.

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Meintjes finished ahead of second place Reuben Thompson and Vacek Karel in third.

"It's not the way you want to win... if there was a challenge for the break I would have been ready to fight for the stage," South African Intermarche-Wanty rider Meintjes told Eurosport.

"(What happened) is unfortunate, takes the pleasure out of it, it's maybe a victory but it doesn't feel like it.

Earlier Thursday Roglic's team-mate Lennard Kamna was in a "stable condition" in intensive care after a collision with a car during a training ride in Tenerife.

Roglic, who also fell on Wednesday in stage three but quickly recovered, was leading the overall standings from Evenepoel by seven seconds at the start of racing on Thursday.

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ALTSASU, SPAIN - APRIL 03: Jonas Vingegaard Hansen of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike competes during the 63rd Itzulia Basque Country 2024, Stage 3 a 190.9km stage from Ezpeleta to Altsasu 526m / #UCIWT / on April 03, 2024 in Altsasu, Spain. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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MADRID — Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard was taken to a hospital in an ambulance after a bad crash at the Basque Country Vuelta.

The Danish rider from team Visma wasn’t able to move much while being treated by doctors by the side of the road following the crash that happened with less than 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) to go in the fourth stage. He was put in an ambulance with an oxygen mask and a neck brace.

Australian rider Jay Vine also was taken to a hospital in an ambulance.

Race organizers did not immediately release information about their condition.

Primoz Roglic, who is a Giro d’Italia and Spanish Vuelta champion, also was involved in the crash, as were Remco Evenepoel and Quinten Hermans.

The race was neutralized until the finish line, with the six leading riders competing in the stage but with their times not counting for the general classification.

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Juan Ayuso wins accident-plagued Tour de Basque Country in northern Spain

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EIBAR, Spain (AP) — Spanish cyclist Juan Ayuso won the Tour of Basque Country after taking the lead during the sixth and final stage on Saturday.

Ayuso, who is considered the rising star of Spanish cycling, started the stage just four seconds behind overnight leader Mattias Skjelmose. Ayuso won the race by 42 seconds over stage winner Carlos Rodríguez while Skjelmose completed the podium.

Rodríguez finished the 137-kilometer (85-mile) mountainous ride that started and finished in Eibar in 3 1/2 hours, with Ayuso just behind.

The race in northern Spain was plagued by accidents that knocked out several of cycling’s top riders, including two-time reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard.

Vingegaard broke a collarbone, several ribs and suffered a collapsed lung in a crash with other riders on Thursday. As of Friday, Vingegaard remained in a hospital in the Spanish city of Vitoria. His Visma-Lease A Bike team did not update his status on Saturday.

Belgian Remco Evenepoel also broke a collarbone and his right shoulder blade and was scheduled to undergo surgery from that crash during stage 4.

Another crash on Friday resulted in Mikel Landa, the race’s runner-up from 2023, breaking his right collarbone and two ribs.

Ayuso was second in the Tirreno-Adriatico last month and third in the 2022 Spanish Vuelta.

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Australian cycling star Jay Vine avoids spinal surgery after horror crash in Spain

• Vine in neck brace for six weeks putting Olympic bid in peril
• Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard also badly injured

Australian cycling star Jay Vine will not have to have surgery on the spine injuries he suffered when falling heavily in a horror crash at the Itzulia Basque Country race.

His UAE Team Emirates medical director Dr Adrian Rotunno reported on Saturday that last year’s Tour Down Under winner Vine would remain in hospital and would be in a neck brace for up to six weeks.

But after suffering what the team described as “a cervical and two thoracic spine vertebral body fractures” in Thursday’s crash in northern Spain, there had been initial fears that the 28-year-old would need to be operated on.

“After examining MRI and final clinical assessment, thankfully no surgery will be necessary for Jay. The fractures are stable enough not to warrant surgical correction,” Rotunno said in a team statement.

“Jay will remain in hospital over the following days to allow for ongoing observations and further recovery. He will be in a neck brace for up to six weeks but will be able to start with general body rehab from next week.”

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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

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Carole Lombard came to Hollywood from the Midwest at the age of 7 and was making Westerns at Fox by age 9.

The legendary star of such classics as “My Man Godfrey” and “Twentieth Century” would rise to become a high-paid performer in the middle of the Depression. Lombard was known for her tomboy style, for throwing great parties, for her marriages to megastars William Powell and Clark Gable. She was also destined to be Hollywood’s first casualty of World War II . She was only 33 and at the peak of her career.

“Carole Lombard gave her life in the service of America,” Will Hays, president of M otion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, told Variety in January 1942 as the shock of Lombard’s death in a plane crash outside Las Vegas spread through the industry.

Daily Variety editor Arthur Ungar penned a page-one tribute to Lombard that led the Jan. 19, 1942, edition.

“Carole Lombard died in the line of duty. She was the first casualty of show business in this world war. She was in active service on a mission in defense of the United States —  selling Defense Bonds — when death suddenly overtook her in the skies,” Ungar wrote.

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At a time when the country was polarized about whether to enter the conflict, Lombard had been an outspoken supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was no surprise that she was among the first in what Variety then referred to as “the film colony” to raise her hand to help the war effort. U.S. Treasury officials put the movie star to work selling war bonds to finance the enormous military and industrial response to Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

On Jan. 15, Lombard and Hays kicked off the nation’s first bond drive for WWII at a rally in Indianapolis. The setting was personal for Lombard, as a native of Fort Wayne, Ind. The Treasury Department’s goal was to sell $500,000 worth of war bonds and stamps; Lombard’s energetic pitch to Hoosiers at the city’s Cadle Tabernacle wound up bringing in more than $2 million.

After the event, Hays (of Hays Code fame) sent a wire to Gable, who was not only Lombard’s husband but also chair of the Hollywood committee in charge of assigning wartime assistance jobs to his fellow movie stars.

“Great day here today. Carole was perfect. Really, she was magnificent and they sold in this one day $2,017,513 worth of bonds, with a quota of only $500,000. Every one deeply grateful I feel I must send you this expression of my personal appreciation,’ ” Hays wrote, according to Variety ’s coverage.

Accompanying Lombard on the trek to Indianapolis was her mother, Elizabeth Peters, and Otto Winkler, a longtime MGM publicity executive who had for years handled Gable’s PR needs — a big job for the star (known in the biz as “the King”) of “Gone With the Wind,” “It Happened One Night” and “Mutiny on the Bounty.” Winkler had been best man at Gable and Lombard’s 1939 wedding.

Lombard, Peters, Winkler and others got on a commercial TWA flight at around 4 a.m. on Jan. 16 that stopped in Albuquerque. At that point, four passengers got off to make room for 15 Army Air Corp. aviators and enlisted men. From there, the flight stopped again in Las Vegas. Not long after it took off again for Burbank airport the plane hit the high peak of Nevada’s Mt. Potosi, about 50 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

The wreckage was strewn for miles. The mountainous crash site was hard to reach in the heart of winter. The violent impact made bodies of the 22 victims difficult to identify. Gable, who had reportedly been waiting for his wife at Burbank airport, chartered a plane and headed to the scene as soon as he learned of the tragedy.

As the sad news sunk in, tributes from her industry colleages were shared widely through the pages of weekly Variety and Daily Variety . Lombard was revered by crew members and studio staffers far and wide as the consummate pro, the former Mack Sennett bathing beauty who worked her way up from two-reelers as a child to top billing by dint of talent and dogged determination. Hers is one of the stories that cemented an enduring Hollywood cliche. “Her life typified the popular conception of Hollywood — small town girl from Fort Wayne achieving riches and fame,” Variety observed in its obituary for Lombard.

Born Jane Alice Peters on Oct. 6, 1908 ( Variety initially cited her birth year as 1909 and her age as 32 at the time of the crash), Lombard relocated from Fort Wayne to Hollywood with her mother and brother when motion pictures were in their infancy. By the time she was a teenager, she was appearing in oaters with popular star Buck Jones. She briefly attended Fairfax High School, but her star began to rise when she was cast in “bathing beauty” shorts produced by Mack Sennett. Lombard’s first reference in Variety came with a casting notice in the Nov. 23, 1927, edition for Sennett’s “two-reel comedy burlesque on ‘Carmen.’ “

Lombard moved on to contracts with Pathe and a seven-year hitch at Paramount Pictures, where she developed her reputation for comedy and met her first husband, William Powell. She was married to the future star of “The Thin Man” series from 1931-33. As her career blossomed, Lombard worked tirelessly, making movies for MGM, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros. and Selznick International Pictures. Variety ’s obituary for Lombard noted that she was a true child of pictures who never once appeared professionally on stage. She earned her only Oscar nomination for her work in the 1936 romantic comedy classic “My Man Godfrey,” in which she co-starred with Powell after their split.

By the mid-1930s Lombard was earning $465,000 a year from “pictures and radio,” and she wasn’t shy about spending it.

“At that time, 1935, she was widely publicized as ‘the best dressed woman in Hollywood,’ and an inventor of novel parties, such as the renting of concessions on the amusement pier at Venice for a social function!,” Variety noted in Lombard’s obituary.

Lombard was hailed for her loyalty to crew members over the years, and for her lack of pretension.

“Many a star felt the sting of her salty rebukes, but to rank and file she was a great guy— an appellation reserved for very few in the picture business. The humble in the studios feel her loss far more genuinely and keenly than the marquee tribe,” Variety wrote.

After her marriage to Gable, Lombard developed a reputation for turning down plum roles in order to coordinate her work schedule with his. When not on the job, the two were reported to spend most of their time away from Hollywood’s social scene out at the 20-acre ranch in Encino that Gable and Lombard bought a few months after eloping in Kingman, Ariz. on March 29, 1939. Part of Lombard’s legend in this period was that she took up shooting and hunting in order to enjoy vacations with her outdoorsy husband.

On Jan. 12, 1942, Lombard, Peters, Winkler and others set off from Los Angeles by train for Indianapolis. Lombard had been expected to also return home by train but she opted to fly at the last minute, reportedly over the objections of her mother and Winkler. Later, reports surfaced that she was trying to get home faster to head off a blossoming affair between Gable and a young Lana Turner.

“She died for her country,” the Treasury Department said of Lombard in a statement. President Roosevelt also paid his respects to one of his most enthusiastic Hollywood supporters.

“Mrs. Roosevelt and I are deeply distressed. Carole was our friend and guest in happier days. She brought great joy to all who knew her and to the millions who knew her only as a great artist. She gave unselfishly of her time and talent to serve her government in peace and in war. She loved her country. She is and always will be a star, one we shall never forget or cease to be grateful to,” Roosevelt said.

Daily Variety’s Ungar echoed Roosevelt’s sentiments in his tribute to Lombard.

“She was just a down­ to ­earth human, and always wanted folks to know it. She never took advantage of employer or employee. She gave her all in loyalty and ability to the picture business — setting an example that many others in the industry can and should follow. She was a regular fellow. The industry will always idolize her memory, and the greatest monument that can be erected in her honor is for all of us in show business to follow through. Be soldiers of our country. Buy, and get others to buy unstintingly Defense Bonds. That’s what the film industry’s top star was doing when war claimed its first casualty from show business.”

Lombard’s death forced United Artists to make hasty changes to her last movie, Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not to Be,” an anti-Nazi satire featuring Lombard and Jack Benny as the leaders of a Polish theater troupe. The movie was “in the cutting room” with producer Alexander Korda at the time of the plane crash. Benny was so distraught by the loss of his co-star that he bowed out of his regular Sunday night NBC radio program that week. Variety later reported that two lines of Lombard’s dialogue related to “a woman in an airplane” were changed before “To Be or Not to Be” was released in March 1942, to great acclaim and big box office.

Lombard’s funeral was held on Jan. 21, 1942, when she and her mother were interred at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Spencer Tracy, Zeppo Marx, Myrna Loy, Fred MacMurray, William Powell, Louis B. Mayer, Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst were among the few dozen guests. Variety reported that Gable was “white-faced and stricken” during the brief ceremony. (Gable would ultimately be laid to rest at next to Lombard even though he had two more marriages prior to his death in 1960.) A day later, Walter Pidgeon delivered the eulogy at the funeral for Winkler, a loyal MGM soldier who died “in the line of duty on assignment.”

As the U.S. adjusted to fighting another global conflict, the loss of one of Hollywood’s brightest lights became a potent example of the entertainment industry’s contributions to the epic battle against fascism.

“Our sorrow is deep. Yet, through it, we feel a pride in the memory of Miss Lombard and of Mr. Winkler. Both were soldiers in the service of their country. Our memorial to them will be the untiring efforts of all of us to carry on the great work they were doing so ably,” said Fred W. Beetson, chairman of the Hollywood Victory Committee for Stage, Screen and Radio, in January 1942.

One year to the day after her death, Lombard’s legacy was invoked when Indiana led the nation “in a vigorous 15-day war bond drive” that ended Jan. 15 with a $3.5 million haul. Indiana Gov. Henry Schricker attended a tribute dinner to Lombard held in Indianapolis to mark the year since her passing. At the event, Variety reported that a “transcription” recording of Lombard’s voice was played, giving her one last chance to urge the crowd to “carry on, buy more bonds, more bonds and more bonds until this war is won.”

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Pearl harbor turns 80: carole lombard was hollywood’s first world war ii casualty.

The starlet and wife of Clark Gable perished along with 21 others after a flight on her war bond tour crashed outside Las Vegas, as chronicled in this exclusive excerpt from the new book, 'Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II.'

By Christian Blauvelt

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On Dec. 22, 1941, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Hollywood’s most glamorous couple, called an emergency gathering of the Victory Committee’s actors branch at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. Fifteen days earlier — on Dec. 7, exactly 80 years ago today — Japan had launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,403 Americans and brought the country into World War II. The swanky affair, attended by Gary Cooper and Bette Davis, mobilized the stars: Funds needed to be raised, troops entertained, the wounded comforted. As recounted in Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II , a new book by Christian Blauvelt about the industry’s involvement in World War II, no one had thrown themselves into the war effort more than Lombard, 33.

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In January 1942, the actress embarked on a tour to sell war bonds. A last-minute decision to surprise Gable in L.A. led her to book a TWA flight with her mother from Indianapolis, where the Indiana-born Lombard raised $2 million. The three-leg trip culminated in a Jan. 16 flight from Las Vegas to Burbank, but the plane, also filled with servicemen, crashed right after takeoff, killing all 22 on board and making Lombard Hollywood’s first war casualty. Her last film, Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be , satirizing the Nazi occupation of Poland, opened Feb. 19. 

In an excerpt from Hollywood Victory, shared below by The Hollywood Reporter,  Blauvelt returns to that momentous chapter of U.S. history that affected every aspect of American life — including Hollywood’s dream factory.

The chairman of the actors branch of the Hollywood Victory Committee was Clark Gable, flanked by his wife, Carole Lombard, at that Roosevelt Hotel meeting. They had been married for more than two years, since they tied the knot during a production break on Gone with the Wind (1939). It was his third marriage, and her second. They were both Midwesterners, she from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he from Cadiz, Ohio. Their nicknames for each other? “Ma” and “Pappy.” In fact, they could hardly have been a more perfect match for each other: they shared the same rough-and-tumble sense of humor that seemed at odds with the gentility Hollywood usually tried to project. Suspicious of the possibility that Gable might stray before leaving on her own war bonds tour, Lombard left a naked, blonde mannequin in his bed to keep him company.

Gable and Lombard threw themselves enthusi­astically into the war effort. They lent horses from their Encino ranch to a group of mounted air-raid wardens who patrolled the San Fernando Valley. On December 22, fifteen days after Pearl Harbor, Gable convened a meeting of the actors branch of the Victory Committee at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where he’d once lived. This event was considered one of the last all-out displays of Tinseltown glam­our before more frugal days ahead. In attendance were Myrna Loy, Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Colman, Irene Dunne, Jack Benny, and Cary Grant —who had donated $100,000 of his $160,000 Arsenic and Old Lace salary to wartime charities. The women were dripping in jewels and furs. But all agreed that, in addition to the fundraising efforts they’d embark upon, they’d spend time visiting with and entertaining ordinary soldiers and sailors, par­ticularly those who’d ended up in military hospitals. To start, those on the committee who were MGM stars hosted a Christmas Day party on the studio lot for enlisted men. Gable served as master of cere­monies for a nearly impromptu revue featuring Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, and Mickey Rooney. Wallace Beery played Santa Claus. Across town, Jimmy Stewart, on leave from Moffett Field for the holidays, played Santa Claus as well—at Henry Fonda’s house for the amusement of Hank’s four-year-old daughter, Jane.

The night before, on Christmas Eve, the public had heard “White Christmas” for the first time when Bing Crosby sang it on his NBC radio show Kraft Music Hall ; this debut didn’t make a big impression with the audience. Overall, it was a quiet Christmas in Hollywood: both a reprieve from the trauma of the previous eighteen days and a kind of collective deep breath in which everyone could brace themselves for the struggles to come. There was anxiety too about the possibility that the Japanese could next launch an air raid on Los Angeles. Or even attempt an invasion.

On Christmas Eve, Lombard had wrapped To Be or Not to Be . What she really wanted for Christmas was her husband in uniform. But it had to be real service, “not one of those phony commis­sions,” she wrote. Gable wanted to sign up too, but he had one last film to make for Louis B. Mayer: a drama called Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942), about innocents caught up in the Japanese conquest. It’s believed Lombard even personally lobbied FDR to make sure her husband would be able to see action. First, though, she had a mission of her own.

Lombard embarked on a multicity tour to sell war bonds during the second week of January 1942. The Victory Committee was now working directly with the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. With her husband starting to shoot Somewhere I’ll Find You , she set out for Salt Lake City and then Chicago. She was filled with patriotic zeal at the enthusiasm of the crowds in these cities, telegraphing her husband, “Hey Pappy, you better get into this man’s army.” Finally she made it to Indianapolis so fans could cheer their fel­low Hoosier who’d risen to Hollywood stardom. For her home state, Lombard had a fundraising target of $500,000 from the Treasury Department. Instead, in one day she raised $2 million.

Maybe Lombard thought that such a huge suc­cess meant she’d done her part. Or maybe rumors had reached her that Gable was allegedly having an affair with his costar Lana Turner. Either way, she canceled the rest of her trip, including the return journey to L.A. by train. She’d rush back to her husband by air. The tickets for herself and her mother were for TWA Flight 3, the next flight out of Indianapolis, at 4:00 a.m. on January 16. Nonstop cross-country travel was impossible in those days, so Flight 3 needed to make stops in St. Louis, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas. That model of aircraft, a Douglas DC-3-382 propliner, had a cruising speed of just 207 mph. So by the time it took off from Las Vegas at 7:05 p.m. Pacific Time for the final leg to Burbank, complete darkness had already fallen. At Albuquerque, fifteen of the nineteen passengers had been replaced by a contingent of Army Air Corps personnel and a new three-person crew. Since the flight overbooked, the Air Corps asked if Lombard and her mother could stay there overnight and catch the next plane. But Lombard argued that her fund­raising efforts made her just as essential to be on that plane as any of the servicemen. Fifteen minutes after takeoff from Las Vegas, Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain, hitting a vertical cliff face head-on about eighty feet from its top. The plane had strayed seven miles from its intended course.

When word of the crash reached MGM that night, Louis B. Mayer’s crisis manager and “fixer” Eddie Mannix immediately arranged for him and Gable to travel to Las Vegas, booking them both bungalows at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel while search parties scoured the scene. Gable held out hope that his wife might still be alive. Wracked with worry, he stayed behind at the bungalow while Mannix went to the crash site. Gable thought a soft glow in the distance was flames from the wreckage. When Mannix got there, a grisly scene awaited. Blood and personal effects were sprinkled on the waist-high snow around the mangled fuselage; the bodies, compressed into a ten-foot space, unidenti­fiable at first glance. A little while later, Mannix sent him a telegram: “No survivors. All killed instantly.” All Mannix could find was a strand of blonde hair Gable would always believe had come from his late wife. Though he wanted to enlist in the Armed Forces, as his wife had wanted him to do, he still had to finish Somewhere I’ll Find You for MGM—a film newly poignant even from its title alone.

Gable was never the same again. Though he had initially refused alcohol in the days after he received that fateful telegram in Las Vegas, saying he was “already numb,” he’d start regularly drinking a quart of scotch a day, a habit he’d keep for the rest of his life. The “King of Hollywood” began to with­draw into himself.

Each day on set he took his meals alone in his trailer, never sitting in his usual chair at the end of a large table at the MGM commissary, where he had been known to hold court. It was almost like his throne, his seat of power where he lorded over the eight-thousand-square-foot dining room—as much a fixture for everyone who worked on the lot as Leo the Lion himself.

When Gable finally did enlist in the Army Air Forces in August 1942, some onlookers said they thought he had a death wish. He didn’t. In fact, his work during the war, including his filming of a documentary, deserved more praise than it’s ever properly received. But this was a heartbreak he’d never get over.

February 19, 1942, saw the premiere of Lombard’s final film: To Be or Not to Be . In so many ways, the Jack Benny comedy from Ernst Lubitsch was as daring as The Great Dictator . And critics hailed it as a triumph for Lombard, if not in many other respects. In the sixteen months since Chaplin’s film, the mood of the country had changed dramat­ically. No one wanted to laugh at Nazis now. Few took their ideology seriously, sure, but they were too great a threat to disarm with chuckles alone. Benny’s own father walked out of the movie after seeing his son in a Nazi uniform. Lubitsch, Jewish like Benny, even had to defend to The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was not “a Berlin-born director who finds fun in the bombing of Warsaw.” In the years after the war, people finally came to consider To Be or Not to Be one of Lubitsch’s best films. Benny’s own father, after furious explanations from his son, went to see it again. Giving it another chance, he loved it so much he ended up seeing it forty-six times.

Lombard had an incandescent final statement on film. It was not enough to allay Gable’s grief. “Why did Ma have to go?” Gable kept asking his friends. “Did you ever see anyone more beautiful? There was never a person in the world who was as generous, who was so full of fun. God damn it, why Ma?”

It hadn’t even been six weeks since Pearl Harbor when Lombard died on January 16, 1942. She was widely considered to be Hollywood’s first casualty of the war. But she would not be the last.

Christian Blauvelt is the managing editor at IndieWire and author of books including  Cinematic Cities: New York  and  Star Wars Made Easy .

This story first appeared in the Dec. 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.

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75 Years Later: Carole Lombard And The Crash Into Mt. Potosi (Aired January 2017)

American actor Clark Gable and American actress Carole Lombard at the home of Carol’s mother, on their return to Hollywood after they had eloped to Kingman, Arizona, for their romantic marriage, on April 7, 1939.

This month marks the 75 th  anniversary of a famous and tragic incident.

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.

Robert Matzen is the author of “Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3.” His 2013 book has been reissued 

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

Who was she?

She was known as the screwball queen of the movies. She was a comedian. She had done a lot of dramatic work especially in the early 1930s. That didn’t really catch on. Personally, I think she was a pretty mediocre dramatic actress, but in comedy. She was a very funny person in real life. So she hit her stride in comedy.

She made something called “My Man Godfrey,” which is her claim to fame. The picture she’s really remembered for. She was Academy Award nominated for that role.

She is also known for her relationship with another big star:

She falls in love with Clark Gable. The king of the movies… one of the most rampantly male actors and sort of a predator in Hollywood. She gets stuck with Clark Gable. She falls in love with him.

They made one movie together called “No Man of Her Own” in 1932:

That’s a pre-code picture, which means before there was a censorship code in Hollywood. It’s a very racy picture. And at that time, Gable was playing scoundrels. That was his claim to fame.

Why was Lombard traveling at night?

She was engaged that week in the first war bonds sale after Pearl Harbor had been bombed. This was a national event in Indianapolis, Indiana. She had traveled there by train with her mother and with Clark Gable’s press agent Otto Winkler, who also happened to be Gable’s best friend.

On January 15, 1942, Carole Lombard had the best, biggest day of her life selling bonds in Indianapolis. She drew tens of thousands of people. She was on national radio twice that day, giving speeches. She raised flags. She attended a formal dinner with the governor and the mayor and other dignitaries. She was the big draw at an event that drew 12,000 people in downtown Indianapolis.

At that point, she was supposed to get back on the train the next day to head back to Hollywood. But she said, ‘I have to get back home.’ She was not willing to take the train. She wanted to fly home, which was extremely controversial because the government wanted her nowhere near a plane for two reasons. One: there could be sabotage. Because there were fifth columnists in America. German spies. German saboteurs. They were known to be around New York City, but the FBI didn’t know exactly where they were or how big the network at this time.

What was the urgency?

The rampantly male Clark Gable, her husband, was having an affair with a Hollywood movie star named Lana Turner, who was just starting her career. A good 10 years younger than Carole, but another petite blond just like Carole.

The airfield that is now where Nellis Air Force Base is located played a part in her death. How?

When you think about transcontinental air transportation today, you get on a plane in New York City you can get to Los Angeles in about five hours. But in 1942, it was a very different experience. TWA and other airlines boasted: ‘Coast to Coast in 17 hours!’ which meant you stopped every few hundred miles.  

So the flight she got on in Indianapolis had originated at La Guardia and then it flew to Newark and then it flew to Pittsburgh then Columbus, Dayton and then finally it went to Indianapolis, where it picked up Carole and then it flew to St. Louis and Kansas City and Wichita and Amarillo. It just hopped its way across the country.

And finally, it got to Albuquerque, and that point there was great consternation because the U.S. Army Air Corp had priority seating. If it had active duty soldiers, it could bump passengers off commercial airline. All of the commercial airline passengers were bumped off this TWA Flight 3 in Albuquerque so that Army Air Corp guys could get on, except Carole Lombard said, ‘No, you can’t bump me. I’m a star.’ She refused to get off.

Lombard’s party of three stayed on the plane with these Army Air Corp flyers. The plane took off late. It was already late because there was fog in St. Louis and weather trouble in Kansas City. So the plane was late and then later because of this melee in Albuquerque.

It takes off and flies three more hours. It was supposed to fly into Boulder City for refueling… but then it got dark and there were not lights at Boulder City. They were diverted to McCarran Airfield [which is now Nellis Air Force Base], which had runway lights. It was a Western Air terminal at that time. It refueled. It took off at about 7:07 p.m. for Burbank.

It was a clear night but it was moonless. It struck Potosi 15 minutes after takeoff.

The search crews took a long time to get to the crash site:

Fourteen hours after the crash the first people got to the site. They started at dawn. So for them it was about five hours of climbing. I made that climb, following their route to get up to the crash site and boy is it tough.

Part of the story of “Fireball” is the first responders' story. These Las Vegas men who climbed this mountain because maybe there are survivors up there, ‘maybe I can be known as the one who rescued Carole Lombard.’

How many people were on board and how many people died?

Twenty-two people were onboard. Twenty-two people died.

The plane was climbing to altitude at about 185 miles an hour, full of gas, just fueled up at McCarran. It hit the cliffs of Potosi about 200 feet below the crest. Full on. Direct hit with both engine spinning. The physics of it were horrible.

The FBI investigated the crash. Why?

Because of the thought of sabotage. The German fifth columnists. Were they active? Had they somehow brought down the plane? They got a number of anonymous tips that a bomb had been placed on the plane. They had to follow that up and look at the wreckage.

Because it hit the mountain and left such an impression on the mountain, it really didn’t blow up before impact. So, it didn’t seem to be sabotage. So what caused it? And that’s why the subtitle of the book is “The Mystery of Flight 3.”

Did you solve the mystery?

I have a hypothesis that it was a thousand little things that added up to disaster. Something as simple as: on the DC 3, if the interior lights are on in the cockpit they reflect on the windscreen and you can’t see objects outside.

Common practice at the time was when the pilot filled out his log - wheels up 7:07 p.m. – he has a little pen flashlight and he would shine this little light on his paper in his lap in the cockpit. Because they wanted to be able to see out the window. The only thing that makes sense is that he didn’t follow the standard practice and he had the lights too bright and he couldn’t see the mountain coming.

But on the other hand, this was TWA’s most experienced pilot, 15,000 hours of air time logged in commercial flight. Made no sense whatsoever.

Maybe I solved it maybe I didn’t. It is just a very tough thing.

But it was labeled ‘pilot error.’

What did the crash do to Clark Gable?

He never recovered. He loved this woman has much as a Clark Gable could love anyone. But he was a selfish, very selfish human. He was used to having his way. He was used to be spoiled. He was used to living by his own standards. When she died, he realized what he had lost and he realized why she was rushing home. So he had both grief and guilt to deal with. To his credit, I will say that the crash changed him fundamentally. He became a much more compassionate person.   

Robert Matzen , author, "Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3"

Stories from Nevada's 150 years: Carole Lombard, Army pilots die in plane crash

Reprinted from the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, Jan. 17, 1942 . As part of the sesquicentennial celebrations, we will reprint historic stories from Nevada newspapers from the past 150 years each Tuesday in this space.

Within a few hundred yards of the top of Double Up Peak, 11 miles north of Goodsprings, Nevada, a doughty band of six searchers found the missing TWA plane which crashed at 7:30 last evening, carrying movie star Carole Lombard and 15 army pilots to their death.

The ship apparently failed to clear the crest by a short distance, crashed and fell back down the mountainside some 450 yards, where it was found in three feet of snow at 10:30 this morning by searchers who went in from Goodsprings.

The party was led in by Lyle Van Gordon, former high school football star, who saw the crash last night and the subsequent fire, marked the spot and was waiting for the group when it arrived early this morning from Las Vegas.

Deputy Sheriff Jack Moore, Robert B. Griffith, George Bondley, Jack Hart and Otto Swartz comprised the party, which left at daybreak on foot and climbed straight up the mountain to the scene of the tragedy.

They spent only a short time there, left Hart and Bondley to guard the wreckage and returned to Las Vegas to report their findings and organize a party to return and bring out the bodies.

The 19 passengers aboard and members of the crew were apparently all instantly killed, their bodies strewn over an area several hundred yards in diameter. The ship was completely demolished.

There was no theory at all as to the possible cause of the disaster, for the pilot apparently flew into the mountain which is only 7,500 feet in height and nothing of an obstacle to the big Douglas transport ship.

The army pilots aboard were returning from Albuquerque (N.M.), where they had just ferried several planes to the new bomber base.

Miss Lombard, her mother and press agent were returning to Hollywood after a trip to Indianapolis to open a drive for the sale of defense bonds.

The Goodsprings party was the only one operating from that side of the mountain but there were more than 100 searchers on the Blue Diamond side.

Immediately rescue crews were organized in Las Vegas, ambulances were sent out, army officers and soldiers, sheriff's deputies, police officers, firemen and volunteers started out, warmly dressed for the long hard search over the rough terrain.

Clem Malone, city employee, reported that he got within perhaps a half a mile of the burning plane but was stopped by a deep chasm.

He traveled on the old Potosi mine road as far as he could by car, then went on foot for the rest of the way.

Elevation of the mountain where the plane crashed is about 8,000 feet and heavy snow is reported on the ground there. The mountain stands about 4,000 feet above the surrounding terrain.

One of the first searching parties out last night was Jack Larry, John F. Cahlan, news editor for the Review-Journal; James H. Down, Jr., advertising manager for the Review-Journal; Tweed Wilson, old-time Indian resident of the area; A. McKnight, rancher and Woody Pierce, police officer of Las Vegas.

Pierce returned to his police duties early this morning, and the others set out on horses furnished by McKnight and the Wilson ranch to pursue the search.

Only a short time later, G.C. "Buck" Blaine, Dan Campbell and R.R. Russell arrived at the scene with their horses and started the search. They were joined by many others whose names were not reported there, all intent on locating the missing ship and passengers for whom little hope was held.

Major H.W. Anderson, executive officer at the army air corps gunnery school, Major Paul Holtz and about 25 soldiers joined in the search last night and today both on the ground and in the air.

Clark Gable arrived in Las Vegas at 1 o'clock this morning by plane after receiving word at the Burbank airport that the ship was missing. He was accompanied by a party of close friends and business associates who included Eddie Mannix, William Streeter and Howard Strickling.

TWA and army planes flew over the area from early this morning until the ship was located. A party of TWA and CAA officials came to Las Vegas to join in the search.

Las Vegas was the center of the news interest in the nation last night and today as long distance telephone calls from press associations and newspapers poured in from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Chicago and New York. The plane crash story was a "flash" on the wire of the United Press whenever a new report was sent out and this story took precedence over all others.

One or more reporters and photographers came to Las Vegas from Southern California to represent the United Press, Associated Press and International News Service.

The peace officers of Clark County and Las Vegas joined with the volunteers in conducting the search with CAA and army officials.

Frank Caldwell of the investigation section of the civil aeronautics board's safety bureau came to Las Vegas to investigate the TWA liner's crash. Two air safety investigators, W.E. Carey of Santa Monica, California, and Perry Hodgeden of San Francisco, were ordered to the scene.

The pilot of the TWA liner, which left its starting point at LaGuardia airport in New York City at 10 p.m. Thursday, was W.C. Williams. His co-pilot was Morgan A. Gillette and the hostess was Miss Alice F. Getz.

The plane took off from the Las Vegas airport after stopping for fuel. It was learned that the plane had intended to land at Boulder City but was unable to do so because of the lack of lighting at the field. It then came to Las Vegas, refueled, took off again and flew on the course toward Los Angeles.

Seven minutes later, it broke its radio contact with the Las Vegas control station without explanation and the crash is believed to have occurred about 20 minutes later.

Following is a list of passengers aboard the airliner which crashed near here last night: Corporal MB. Affrine, air corps; Second Lieutenant James C. Burham, air corps; Sergeant A. M. Belejekak, air corps; Second Lieutenant Hal E. Browne, Jr., air corps; Sergeant Frederick P. Cook, aircorps; First Lieutenant Robert E. Croch, air corps; Frederick J. Dittman, air corps, rank undetermined; Second Lieutenant K. T. Donaahue, aircorps; Mrs. Clark Gable (Carole Lombard), Hollywood; Lois Hamilton, Detroit, Michigan; First Lieutenant Robert F. Negren, air corps; Sergeant Edgar A. Negren, air corps (brother of Lieutenant Negren); Second Lieutenant Charles D. Nelson, air corps; Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peters (Mrs. Gable's mother), Hollywood; Second Lieutenant Stuart L. Swenson, air corps; Private Martin W. Tellrank, air corps; Sergeant David C. Tilgman, air corps; Private Nicholas Varsamine, air corps; Otto Winkler, movie press agent, Hollywood. Crew members: Pilot Wayne C. Williams; co-pilot Morgan A. Gillette and Hostess Alice F. Getz.

• Jan 16, 2021

This Day in History: Carole Lombard’s tragic WWII War Bonds tour

On this day in 1942, American film actress Carole Lombard is tragically killed in a plane crash as she returns from a WWII War Bonds tour. Her trip had been part of Hollywood’s early response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Lombard was between movies; her husband, Clark Gable, was chair of Hollywood’s newly formed Victory Committee. Perhaps it was natural that she was among the first to raise funds?

Lombard left Los Angeles by train on January 12, traveling towards her home state of Indiana. At a stop in Salt Lake City, she spoke to a crowd. “We’ve got to get out and get the boys pumped up!” she told her fans. “I don’t have to tell you what to do: Go out and buy a bond!” “This is the first unity Hollywood ever had,” she told a journalist in Chicago. “From now on it’s sell a bond, sell a bond, sell a bond.”

The goal for Lombard’s tour had been set low, at $500,000, because no one knew what to expect. But Lombard shattered that goal, raising more than $2 million.

“We all know what this war is going to cost,” she told an Indianapolis dinner crowd late on January 15, “But the peace it will bring is priceless . . . Now our task is to provide more airplanes, more guns, and more ships than the world has ever seen before. That is our job: to give our fighting men the instruments for winning this war and ensuring peace.”

The evening ended with a rousing rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner .

Sadly, the story doesn’t end on that happy note. Lombard was supposed to take a train back to California: Washington had asked Hollywood stars not to travel by air during their war bond tours. But Lombard wanted to get home as quickly as she could: At least reportedly, she’d had a fight with Clark Gable just before her trip; she wanted to mend fences.

Would she have made a different decision otherwise? Her mother and Otto Winkler, Gable’s publicist, were both traveling with her. Each feared flying.

In the end, the trio’s travel plans were decided on a coin flip. Winkler lost, so Lombard got her way. The three would take TWA Flight 3, scheduled to depart Indianapolis at about 3 a.m. on January 16. They’d be in California by bedtime.

Back in those days, remember, a cross-country flight would have been a grueling affair. The plane cabin was not pressurized, so the passengers shivered under blankets. Frequent refueling stops were needed. One of these stops nearly averted tragedy, at least for Lombard. In Albuquerque, the actress nearly got bumped from the plane in favor of 15 U.S. Army Air Corps personnel. Military were given priority to board over civilians due to the war. But Lombard argued her case: She, too, was helping the war effort. Hadn’t she just raised $2 million?

Other civilians were bumped, but Lombard, her mother, and Winkler stayed aboard.

Normally, the last refueling stop would have occurred in Boulder, Nevada, but it was getting late and Boulder didn’t have runway lights. Thus, the pilots rerouted towards Las Vegas. Unfortunately, they made a mistake when they took off again, using a flight path that would have worked out of Boulder, but didn’t work out of Vegas. TWA Flight 3 slammed into a nearby mountain minutes later.

The unnecessary tragedy shocked the country, but it nearly undid Clark Gable. The new widower never really recovered. He would eventually make more movies and even remarry. But when he passed away in 1960, he was buried next to Lombard.

Further Reading:

Robert Matzen, Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 (2017)

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Latour-de-Carol, France: places to visit and attractions

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Ax-les-Thermes

Villefranche-de-Conflent

Grotte de Lombrives

Molitg-les-Bains

Mount Canigou

Prats de Mollo la Preste

Chateau de Puilaurens

Gorges de l'Aude

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• Ax-les-Thermes: market Thursday - seasonal market only (29km)
• Ax-les-Thermes: market Tuesday & Saturday (29km)
• Prades: market Tuesday (48km)

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Heritage sites

• Mont-Louis citadelle (Vauban fortifications) (20km)
• Villefranche-de-Conflent enceinte / fort (Vauban fortifications) (41km)

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• Villefranche-de-Conflent (41km)
• Mosset (44km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Prades (47km)

Regional Natural Parcs

• Pyrenees Catalanes (21km)

Churches and religious monuments

• Eglise de Sainte-Marie (Corneilla-de-Conflent) (42km)
• Abbaye Saint Martin du Canigou (Casteil) (42km)
• Abbaye Saint Michel de Cuixa (Codalet) (44km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Lac du Bouillouses (15km)
• Lac des Bouillouses (15km)
• Cirque du Sisca (19km)
• Réserve naturelle régionale de Nyer (33km)
• Vallée de Vicdessos (45km)
• Gorges de la Pierre-Lys (49km)

Geography and distances

Latour-de-Carol is in the south of France at 86 kilometres from Perpignan, the department capital (general information: Latour-de-Carol is 712 kilometres from Paris).

Geographical Information

Commune: Latour-de-Carol

Canton: Saillagouse

Arrondissement: Prades

Department: Pyrenees-Orientales

Region: Languedoc-Roussillon

New region: Occitanie

Postcode: 66760

Distance to Latour-de-Carol

from Perpignan (prefecture): 86 km

from Paris: 712 km

from Calais: 943 km

from Nice: 458 km

from Bordeaux: 330 km

from Strasbourg: 819 km

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For driving distances to Latour-de-Carol from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner .

We have 4 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Bourg-Madame , Dorres , Enveitg and Ur .

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Crash that killed actress Carole Lombard, 21 others near Las Vegas still echoes after 75 years

A coin flip and a pilot’s inexplicable miscalculation combined to snuff out Lombard, one of Hollywood brightest stars, 75 years ago Monday.

A coin flip and a pilot’s inexplicable miscalculation combined to snuff out one of Hollywood brightest stars 75 years ago Monday, writing a chapter in local history that continues to attract fans and the curious to the rugged Clark County crash site from all corners of the world.

Carole Lombard, the blond, screwball movie star whose marriage to Clark Gable three years earlier had been front-page news, and 21 others perished when a TWA prop plane crashed on the night of Jan. 16, 1942, shortly after takeoff from McCarran Field in Las Vegas. Gable rushed to the city, first hoping for a miracle and then keeping a grief-stricken vigil until rescue teams recovered his wife’s remains.

“This tremendous drama unfolded over the course of one weekend, and it stole headlines from World War II,” said Robert Matzen, author of the 2013 book “Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3.”

Decades have passed since Lombard’s death, but patrons at the Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings undoubtedly will raise their glasses to the actress this weekend. They likely will spend a few minutes gazing at the Lombard and Gable memorabilia hanging on the wall and the cigar burn marks on the bar that legend says were left behind by a disconsolate and drunken Gable. And then they’ll listen once more to a tragic tale of fame, love and fate that continues to captivate to this day.

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY

They were the king and queen of Hollywood. Clark Gable. Carole Lombard.

The highest-paid stars of their era, they rose from silent movies in the 1920s to silver screen romance films of the ’30s, though pairing up just once in the 1932 film “No Man of Her Own.”

Both were divorced when they became an item. After a three-year romance, they eloped to Kingman, Arizona, where they were married March 29, 1939, just before the premier of Gable’s epic Civil War hit “Gone with the Wind,” becoming the pre-split Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of their day.

The nation already was on edge following the U.S. entry into World War II the previous month when word came that there would be no happily ever after for the celebrity couple: The twin-engine DC-3 airliner carrying Lombard, her mother, Gable’s press agent and 19 other passengers and crew had exploded in a fireball on Potosi Mountain, 20 minutes after taking off from McCarran Field.

The news took on a patriotic tint when it became clear that Lombard was returning from a tour to hawk war bonds to support the war effort.

When she died at 33, the nation lost “a humanitarian who helped the down and out in Hollywood, an advocate who pushed the boundaries for women’s rights and a patriot who died in service of her country,” Matzen said.

FIRE AND LIMESTONE

The crash caused a stir in the still-sleepy town of Las Vegas.

“A thunderous explosion immediately followed, sending wreckage, bodies, cargo and luggage down the cliff,” FAA accident investigator Mike McComb wrote recently, after his passion for “aviation archaelology” inspired him to dig deeper into the pilot-error cause arrived at by his congressional and Civil Aeronautics Board predecessors.

“Patrons of the city’s resorts and casinos rushed out into the crisp air when the sound of the explosion echoed through the Las Vegas Valley. What many described that night were sheets of fire several hundred feet that cast the mountain in a red glow.”

Search-and-rescue teams formed spontaneously and rushed into the pitch-black night, quickly reaching the rugged, snow-topped ledges that jut from the 8,500-foot mountain, 32 air miles southwest of what is now Nellis Air Force Base.

If they were hoping to find survivors, their hopes were quickly dashed. It soon became clear that none of those on board survived the violent crash that occurred when the Transcontinental and Western Air DC-3’s left wing clipped a limestone outcrop.

SUPERSTITIOUS NUMBERS

Lombard, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had just wrapped up a war bond drive that took her by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and Indianapolis. As one of the biggest stars of Hollywood’s golden age, she was a big draw at the patriotic events, where she happily signed autographs and sang the national anthem with gusto. The $2 million raised was well beyond expectations.

Tired and eager to return to the family ranch in Southern California after the last rally in Indianapolis, she challenged her mother, Elizabeth “Bessie” Peters, and Gable’s friend and press agent, Otto Winkler, to flip a coin to determine their mode of transportation. If she won, they would fly out on the next available westbound flight; if her mother, who had never flown, or Winkler, who was prone to air sickness, won, they would climb aboard the next train.

For a while, it appears Lombard’s luck was running hot.

After winning the coin toss, she found that cancellations had opened three seats on TWA Flight 3, so they arrived at Indianapolis Municipal Airport the morning of Jan. 16 to catch a flight that had originated in New York and was ultimately bound for Burbank, California.

Peters, “a numerologist who believed in the science of numbers,” according to Matzen, was distressed to learn the particulars about the flight.

“Three was a hard luck number in her mother’s mind. And it was Flight 3 and Carole was 33 years and three months old and there were three in the party,” the author said Thursday by phone from his home in Pennsylvania.

When they finally boarded the silver DC-3 Sky Club airliner, which was running more than 1½ hours late when it arrived in Indianapolis, they settled in for the marathon that was cross-country air travel in those days: hopscotching across the Plains and Southwest, stopping to get fuel, load mail bags, drop off passengers and take on more with luggage along the way.

When they reached Albuquerque, New Mexico, a new flight crew came aboard — veteran TWA pilot Captain Wayne C. Williams, co-pilot First Officer Morgan Gillette and flight attendant Alice F. Gett. A contingent of 15 soldiers from the Army Air Corps Ferrying Command, who were returning to the West Coast after delivering aircraft to a new bomber base, also got on board there, bumping all civilian passengers except for the Lombard party and Lois Hamilton, an Army wife.

PILOT ERROR MYSTERY

Facing a stiff headwind, Williams received permission from TWA in Burbank to save time by not stopping in Winslow, Arizona, for a scheduled refueling. Instead Flight 3 was to proceed to Boulder City to refuel before the final 90-minute leg to Burbank.

But when the crew realized it would be dark when they arrived in Boulder City, where the airport had no runway lights, the pilot decided to continue another 20 miles to land at what was then called McCarran Field at the north end of the Las Vegas Valley.

Flight plan records show the compass heading and cruise level — a 218-degree compass heading climbing to 8,000 feet above sea level — were never changed to reflect the new departure point at McCarran Field. So when co-pilot Gillette took over the controls following the 7:07 p.m. takeoff, he unknowingly was flying on a collision course with Potosi Mountain, just southwest of what is now Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

The collision might have been avoided had a lighted beacon system not been shut off out of concerns that Japanese warplanes could be poised to attack the western U.S. Only a single beacon at Arden, east of Potosi, was shining.

It’s also unclear why the crew wasn’t using another available navigation device, a radio compass which projects signals to follow much like spokes from a bicycle wheel.

“That’s really the main mystery: why the captain with all his experience wasn’t using it, or maybe he was using it and it didn’t work properly,” McComb said.

PRINT THE LEGEND

As soon as they heard the impact, residents of the mining town of Goodsprings, downslope of Double Up Peak and 11 miles southeast of the crash site, organized search parties.

One, led by former high school football star Lyle Van Gordon, was first to reach the site, finding wreckage but no survivors.

Another group that included Review-Journal news editor John F. Cahlan and advertising manager James H. Down, saddled up to ride horses to the site with Paiute rancher Tweed Wilson.

By this time, Gable had been notified by telegram that the plane his wife was on was missing and apparently had crashed.

With no word on the fate of the passengers and crew, Gable chartered a flight to Las Vegas with MGM executive Eddie Mannix and the film company’s publicity head, Howard Strickling. They were met at McCarran Field about 1 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1942 by the Clark County sheriff and taken to the El Rancho, the year-old first hotel on the Strip where Gable stayed sequestered in a bungalow.

As it became clear that the search was a recovery effort, reporters and photographers from Southern California and beyond converged on Las Vegas to wait for Lombard’s body to be brought down the mountain.

Legend has it that Gable spent much of his time waiting at the Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings.

Bartender Chad Hanson, 32, recounted the oft-told story Thursday:

“To drown his sorrows, so to say, he came to the saloon. He was a big cigar fan, and he sat right here and this is where these cigar burns came from, over the hours he spent here, falling asleep, drowning in his sorrow,” he said, pointing to four worn, pock marks in the century-old cherrywood bar.

According to Matzen, however, Gable, who died in 1960 at age 59, at some point passed the Pioneer but did not spend time there “because it was crawling with reporters.”

“The Pioneer was a very important site in the whole drama, but it really wasn’t Gable’s site,” Matzen said. “He was being protected by Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The heads of MGM were very protective of the Gable brand. He was the most popular actor in the world. Everything he made was a hit, and ‘Gone with the Wind’ pushed him way over the top.”

UNLV history professor Michael Green was noncommittal when asked whether the incident was truth or legend, saying there are some points that back up the tale “and a lot we don’t know.”

“With this kind of story, we end up with something akin to ‘Liberty Valance’: print the legend,” he said by email, referring to a famous Western and role that myth played in forging the legends of the West. “And since the legend (in this case) involves actual Hollywood legends, there’s even more uncertainty.”

In addition to doubting the Pioneer Saloon legend, Matzen casts cold water on the storybook romance angle of the Lombard-Gable marriage.

“They had an idyllic realtionship for several months,” he said, before adding, “Their marriage was already in trouble when she died. He had started a relationship with Lana Turner, which was the primary reason why (Lombard) rushed back to Hollywood and died on that mountain.”

Whatever the state of their marriage, Gable took his wife’s death hard.

He joined the Army Air Forces, entering Officer Candidate School in Florida in August 1942.

He later flew five combat missions as an observer-gunner in B-17s as part of a motion-picture unit with the 351st Bomb Group in England. On one mission, he just missed being hit by shrapnel and was the recipient of a Distinguished Flying Cross.

He rose to the rank of major before leaving active duty in 1944.

Matzen sees Gable’s wartime service as a direct reaction to that terrible January night when Carole Lombard and 21 others were killed.

“It was obvious to all his friends that Gable had no more use for living after she died,” he said. “He said he wanted to die in a plane like she did.”

Contact Keith Rogers at [email protected] or 702-383-0308. Follow @KeithRogers2 on Twitter.

POTOSI MOUNTAIN PLANE CRASH VICTIMS

Cpl. M.B. Affrine

2nd Lt. James B. Barham

Sgt. A.M. Belejckak

2nd Lt. Hal E. Browne

Sgt. Fredrick P. Cook

1st. Lt. Robert E. Crouch

Fredrick J. Dittman, Army Air Corps

2nd Lt. K.T. Donahue

Alice F. Gett, TWA flight attendant

Morgan A. Gillette, TWA co-pilot

Lois Hamilton, Army wife

Carole Lombard Gable

Sgt. Edgar A. Negren

1st Lt. Robert Negren

2nd Lt. Charles D. Nelson

Elizabeth K. Peters, Lombard's mother

2nd Lt. Stuart L. Swenson

Pvt. Martin W. Tellrank

Sgt. David C. Tillgman

Pvt. Nicholas Varsamine

Wayne C. Williams, TWA pilot

Otto Winkler, Clark Gable's agent

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Overnight drone attack on Moscow injures one and temporarily closes an airport as Russia suffers 'consequences'

Three Ukrainian drones have attacked Moscow, according to Russian authorities, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure of traffic in and out of one of four airports around the Russian capital.

Key points:

• The Russian Defence Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime"
• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow city district
• A spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force said the Russian people were seeing the consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Sunday that "war" was coming to Russia after the attack.

"Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centres and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process," Mr Zelenskyy said on a visit to the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third in a week, fuelling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.

The Russian Defence Ministry referred to the incident in the early hours of Sunday as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city.

One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defence systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow business district.

Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district.

A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.

The area, several miles from the Kremlin, is known for its modern high-rise towers.

One of the buildings damaged was home to three Russian government ministries as well as residential apartments, Russian media reported.

No flights went into or out of Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed to all aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.

Moscow authorities have also closed a street to traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.

Without directly acknowledging that Ukraine was behind the attack on Moscow, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force said that the Russian people were seeing the consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine.

"All of the people who think the war 'doesn't concern them,' it's already touching them," spokesperson Yurii Ihnat told journalists on Sunday.

"There's already a certain mood in Russia: that something is flying in, and loudly," he said.

"There's no discussion of peace or calm in the Russian interior any more. They got what they wanted."

Mr Ihnat also referenced a drone attack on Russian-occupied Crimea overnight.

Moscow announced on Sunday that it had shot down 16 Ukrainian drones and neutralised eight more with an electronic jamming system. There were no casualties, officials said.

In Ukraine, the air force reported that it had destroyed four Russian drones above the country's Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Information on the attacks could not be independently verified.

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