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Pictured are workers removing debris from a plane crash at Pacoima Junior High School. A Douglas DC7B transport crashed into the school yard after colliding with a Northrop jet trainer plane. Eight people died and many more were injured. Photograph dated February 6, 1957.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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