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Negro Pilot Dead in Plane Crash

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.070 Author/Creator: Place Written: Selfridge, Michigan Type: Newspaper clipping Date: circa 14 October 1943 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 11.4 cm, Width: 5.6 cm Order a Copy

Newspaper clipping about the plane crash and death of Lt. LeRoi S. Williams. There is a small black and white photograph included. This clipping is the same as GLC09587.069.

Williams, LeRoi S., 1919-1943

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