The Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport
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After the Wedell-Williams Airport became the Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport, it remained busy serving the needs of the locals in St. Mary Parish.
Image Courtesy of the Wedell-Williams Memorial Foundation and the Louisiana State Museum
This file appears in: End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Jimmie Wedell would never enter the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia. The Gypsy Moth in which he was giving a lesson crashed just outside of Patterson on June 24, 1934. Wedell died…