Monument to Darius and Girenas (1935) (Chicago, Illinois)
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Commemorates Lithuanian-American pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, died in 1933. After successfully flying 6,411 km across the Atlantic Ocean, their plain Lituanica crashed, due to undetermined circumstances in Eastern Prussia.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lituanica
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Coordinates: 41°46'17"N 87°41'37"W
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