LOST AIRMEN
Memorial To Nungesser And 1 Coli Unveiled. j LINDBERGH ALSO HONOURED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) PARIS, May 9. Two silently weeping women—the mother of Captain Nungesser and tinwidow of Lieutenant Coli, who were lo*t on a trans-Atlantic flight in May, 1927 —were the central figures at the ceilemony of the unveiling of a monument »> le Bourget aerodrome in honour of the missing airmen, and of Colonel Charles Lindbergh. It was inscribed: ''In honour of those who tried and of hini who succeeded." A memorial service was held at the church of Etretat, at the top of the cliff from which Nungesser and Coli were last sighted.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1928, Page 7
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