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Title
Last rites for DC7B co-pilot
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Description
On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B transport plane crashed into the school yard of Pacoima Junior High School, 9919 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, after colliding with a Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet trainer plane. Debris was also strewn across the grounds of Terra Bella Elementary School, adjacent to the junior high, and Pacoima Congregational Church, next door to the school. Three students and five airmen died and many more students were injured. The radarman aboard the jet was the only airman who survived. See images 00147086 through 00147092 for all photos in this series.
Photograph caption dated February 5, 1957 reads "Part of crowd of 300 persons who attended funeral services for Archie R. Twitchell, 51, of Northridge, co-pilot of plane which crashed at Pacoima Junior High School Thursday, see him buried near Portal of the Foloded Wing, fliers' memorial at Valhalla Cemetery. Officiating at rites was Lockheed test pilot Sammy Mason, long-time friend of Twitchell's."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier
00147104
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_f35_i6
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127105
Subject
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Los Angeles
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Cemeteries--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Monuments & memorials--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Time Period
1951-1960

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