Remembering the Aviation Pioneers
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The people of Patterson commemorated Wedell and Williams with memorial airshows at the Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport. Today, the Louisiana State Museum in Patterson honors the memory of these Louisiana aviation pioneers.
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…