Leland Pinkham plane crash — 7/14/1936 — #6212_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Photo is copy from Buffalo Evening News with partially cut off caption reading "Dies to Save Others (AP) - Leland Pinkham 30, sacrificed his life in keeping his disable plane from falling into a residential district in Aberdeen, Wash. The sh.... went into a tailspin at 4000 and Pinkham maneuved it away from homes, th... ...ailed too close to make a landing." Crash at west end of Hume St. Original is halftone. Assignment envelope notation : "Pilot Leland Pinkham 'Slim' killed July 12. Lived in Hoquiam."
