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Two Virignia Pilots Die In Midair Crash

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.073 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 1943 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 42.5 cm, Width: 6 cm Order a Copy

Three newspaper clippings from the same article about LeRoi Williams' death. The article notes that Williams and another pilot, Lt. William Walker, crashed into one another midair near Selfridge Field, Michigan, at 3:10pm, October 14, 1943. There is a photo of each man. The article lists LeRoi's survivors as his mother, Corporal James T. Williams, Capt. Eugene Williams, Prof. H. H. Williams, Mrs. Virginia Williams, and Mrs. Edna Geraldine Williams. The article misspells Virginia as "Virignia."

Williams, Cordelia Shelton, 1884-1978
Williams, Eugene W., 1925-1949
Williams, H. Hamilton, 1911-1981
Williams, James T. II, 1914-1966
Williams, LeRoi S., 1919-1943
Kent, Virginia Williams, 1918-1987
Twitty, Geraldine Williams, 1930-

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