Edwards, Rigdon.
Born 1910 in Duncan, Oklahoma and graduated from McMurry College in Abilene, Texas in 1931. Worked for Mobile Petroleum Company and was transferred to Sweetwater, Texas in 1935. Learned to fly and bought his first airplane in 1938. Entered the Air Corps Reserve in 1944 and served as flight instructor to the WASP during World War II. Edwards still lives in Sweetwater and is active in Sweetwater's WASP museum.
From the description of Rigdon Edwards : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1992. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 51051726
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| creatorOf | Edwards, Rigdon. Rigdon Edwards : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1992. | Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library |
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