Douglas, Corrigan, the 32-year-old airman, who, on July 17, the anniversary of his famous “ wrong-way” flight, is to marry his childhood sweetheart from Texas. Corrigan, having flown the Atlantic in an unlicensed plane, landed in Ireland, and inquired his whereabouts. When told he teas in Ireland he committed the greatest Irishism of all time by exclaiming: “Why, I set out to fly across America, and must have come the wrong way.” Unostentatious and cheerful, Corrigan declined to commercialise his achievement, although, whether he liked it or not, his return to the United States was something in the nature of a triumphal procession.
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Northern Advocate, 5 July 1939, Page 6
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102Douglas, Corrigan, the 32-yearold airman, who, on July 17, the anniversary of his famous “wrong-way” flight, is to marry his childhood sweetheart from Texas. Corrigan, having flown the Atlantic in an unlicensed plane, landed in Ireland, and inquired his whereabouts. When told he teas in Ireland he committed the greatest Irishism of all time by exclaiming: “Why, I set out to fly across America, and must have come the wrong way.” Unostentatious and cheerful, Corrigan declined to commercialise his achievement, although, whether he liked it or not, his return to the United States was something in the nature of a triumphal procession. Northern Advocate, 5 July 1939, Page 6
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