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U.S. Girls in Suicide Leap From British Plane
Unknown location
- Date
- 1935, February 21
- Location
- Unknown location
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 16,7 (17,9) x 21,6 (22,8) cm
- Artist
- ACME · Unidentified Photographer
Description
verso labeled in typeset: 295332 Pictured above are Jane du Bois, 20, with her mother, Mrs. Coert du Bois, in a German swimming pool a few years ago. The Du Bois sisters, Jane, and Elizabeth, 23, grief-stricken over the loss of their fiancés in a British Royal Air Force crash which took nine lives a week ago, leaped to their deaths from a London-to-Paris passenger plane Feb. 21. Their bodies landed near Upminster, England. They are the daughters of the American Consul General in Naples.
Credit Line (ACME) 2/21/35
Stamped: ACME Newspictures, Inc.; REF. DEPT. Mar 1 1935 N. E. A.
Handwritten: A 31612