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She was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. In January 1942, five weeks after Pearl Harbor, Carole Lombard raised over $2 million for the American war effort in a single night — then made one choice that would end her life before she ever made it home.

She flipped a coin for the right to fly instead of taking the train. She argued her way back onto an overbooked plane when the U.S. Army tried to bump her for military personnel. Fifteen minutes after her final takeoff, TWA Flight 3 slammed into a Nevada mountainside in total darkness, killing everyone on board.

This is the true story of Carole Lombard's final 48 hours — the war bond tour, the coin toss, the fight to keep her seat, and the crash that made her the first American woman to die in the line of duty in World War II. It's also the story of what it did to her husband, Clark Gable, who waited three days at a desert saloon for news that never came, and who never fully recovered.

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