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Seven Killed in C47 Crash in Mountains
An Air Force C47 twin engined plane crashed in the Sacramento Mountains near La Luz Canyon killing seven aboard. Victims include Maj. Edward A. Miller and Lt. Don R. Forbes with others named from Clovis Portland Chicago Benson Maywood Commiskey and a Denver area air base. The daughter Landa Kay Thomas, born to an iron lung patient, is reportedly healthy. The crash occurred after takeoff from Holloman AFB while returning from Burbank to Clovis.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Alamogordo
N. M
Charles Ray Thomas
Sacramento Mountains
Laffit
Polio
Luz Canyon
Holloman Air Force Base
Landa Kay
Clovis Air Base
Burbank
Calif
Here
Air Force
Halloman
U.S. Forest Service
Edward A. Miller
Clovis
Don R. Forbes
Portland
Ore
Robert D
Haugan
Chicago
Clyde B. Johnson
Benson
N. C
Leamon Lawfor
Lester M. Barnes
Maywood
Charles A. Deaton
Commiskey
Ind
Barnes
Lawson
Johnson
la Luz Canyon
New Mexico
Mountain Range