Hurricane Hilda Destroys the Last Hangar
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The airport's last original hangar stood until 1964. Though the original buildings are gone, the Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport remains a functioning reminder of Louisiana's aviation past.
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…