WORLD WAR II
Non-Battle Death - Killed in a plane accident in Jackson, Mississippi
Son of Henry Grady and Juanita Perry Brady. William married Betty Ross Wilson on February 20, 1941. Their son born 3 months after his death.
JACKSON, MISS - Two army pilots were killed today when the pursuit planes they were flying crashed in a wooded section about 20 miles northeast of here. The pilots were 2nd Lieuts. William P. Brady of Columbia, SC, and Harvey H. Woodford of Pasadena, Calif. Officials of the army air base here said the position of the planes indicated that there might have ben a collision n the air. Only the pilots were in the planes.
Junior and James Gore, who saw the planes just before they struck the ground said they heard a crash sounding like two trucks colliding. Looking skyward, they said they saw the two ships falling out of the low clouds and disappearing over the trees about a quarter of a mile away. It was said that the planes were flying in formation, three in a squadron, and that two of them locked wings above the clouds and crashed to the earth.
Lieutenant Brady, 23, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Brady of 815 Woodrow Street and a grandson of William M. Perry of Columbia. He was graduated in October 1940 from Kelly Field, the only South Carolinian to graduate in his class of 223 members.
Lieutenant Brady was a graduate of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, and then attended Clemson College, leaving that institution in his junior year to join the Air Corps. He took his primary training at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and finished second in his class of 230 at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
Bill Brady was married to Miss Betty Wilson of Columbia last February 19. Mrs. Brady had been with her husband at Hamilton Field, Calif., until his transfer only recently. He had advised his parents here that the transfer orders had been received but that he was not permitted to say where his new orders would take him.
Besides his widow and his parents, he is survived by a brother, Lieut. H.G. Brady, Jr., US Army Air Corps, now somewhere on the west coast; and two sisters, Mrs. Roy McCullough and Miss Betty Brady, both of Columbia.
Published in The State, February 19, 1942
Non-Battle Death - Killed in a plane accident in Jackson, Mississippi
Son of Henry Grady and Juanita Perry Brady. William married Betty Ross Wilson on February 20, 1941. Their son born 3 months after his death.
JACKSON, MISS - Two army pilots were killed today when the pursuit planes they were flying crashed in a wooded section about 20 miles northeast of here. The pilots were 2nd Lieuts. William P. Brady of Columbia, SC, and Harvey H. Woodford of Pasadena, Calif. Officials of the army air base here said the position of the planes indicated that there might have ben a collision n the air. Only the pilots were in the planes.
Junior and James Gore, who saw the planes just before they struck the ground said they heard a crash sounding like two trucks colliding. Looking skyward, they said they saw the two ships falling out of the low clouds and disappearing over the trees about a quarter of a mile away. It was said that the planes were flying in formation, three in a squadron, and that two of them locked wings above the clouds and crashed to the earth.
Lieutenant Brady, 23, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Brady of 815 Woodrow Street and a grandson of William M. Perry of Columbia. He was graduated in October 1940 from Kelly Field, the only South Carolinian to graduate in his class of 223 members.
Lieutenant Brady was a graduate of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, and then attended Clemson College, leaving that institution in his junior year to join the Air Corps. He took his primary training at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and finished second in his class of 230 at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
Bill Brady was married to Miss Betty Wilson of Columbia last February 19. Mrs. Brady had been with her husband at Hamilton Field, Calif., until his transfer only recently. He had advised his parents here that the transfer orders had been received but that he was not permitted to say where his new orders would take him.
Besides his widow and his parents, he is survived by a brother, Lieut. H.G. Brady, Jr., US Army Air Corps, now somewhere on the west coast; and two sisters, Mrs. Roy McCullough and Miss Betty Brady, both of Columbia.
Published in The State, February 19, 1942
WORLD WAR II
Non-Battle Death - Killed in a plane accident in Jackson, Mississippi
Son of Henry Grady and Juanita Perry Brady. William married Betty Ross Wilson on February 20, 1941. Their son born 3 months after his death.
JACKSON, MISS - Two army pilots were killed today when the pursuit planes they were flying crashed in a wooded section about 20 miles northeast of here. The pilots were 2nd Lieuts. William P. Brady of Columbia, SC, and Harvey H. Woodford of Pasadena, Calif. Officials of the army air base here said the position of the planes indicated that there might have ben a collision n the air. Only the pilots were in the planes.
Junior and James Gore, who saw the planes just before they struck the ground said they heard a crash sounding like two trucks colliding. Looking skyward, they said they saw the two ships falling out of the low clouds and disappearing over the trees about a quarter of a mile away. It was said that the planes were flying in formation, three in a squadron, and that two of them locked wings above the clouds and crashed to the earth.
Lieutenant Brady, 23, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Brady of 815 Woodrow Street and a grandson of William M. Perry of Columbia. He was graduated in October 1940 from Kelly Field, the only South Carolinian to graduate in his class of 223 members.
Lieutenant Brady was a graduate of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, and then attended Clemson College, leaving that institution in his junior year to join the Air Corps. He took his primary training at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and finished second in his class of 230 at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
Bill Brady was married to Miss Betty Wilson of Columbia last February 19. Mrs. Brady had been with her husband at Hamilton Field, Calif., until his transfer only recently. He had advised his parents here that the transfer orders had been received but that he was not permitted to say where his new orders would take him.
Besides his widow and his parents, he is survived by a brother, Lieut. H.G. Brady, Jr., US Army Air Corps, now somewhere on the west coast; and two sisters, Mrs. Roy McCullough and Miss Betty Brady, both of Columbia.
Published in The State, February 19, 1942
Non-Battle Death - Killed in a plane accident in Jackson, Mississippi
Son of Henry Grady and Juanita Perry Brady. William married Betty Ross Wilson on February 20, 1941. Their son born 3 months after his death.
JACKSON, MISS - Two army pilots were killed today when the pursuit planes they were flying crashed in a wooded section about 20 miles northeast of here. The pilots were 2nd Lieuts. William P. Brady of Columbia, SC, and Harvey H. Woodford of Pasadena, Calif. Officials of the army air base here said the position of the planes indicated that there might have ben a collision n the air. Only the pilots were in the planes.
Junior and James Gore, who saw the planes just before they struck the ground said they heard a crash sounding like two trucks colliding. Looking skyward, they said they saw the two ships falling out of the low clouds and disappearing over the trees about a quarter of a mile away. It was said that the planes were flying in formation, three in a squadron, and that two of them locked wings above the clouds and crashed to the earth.
Lieutenant Brady, 23, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Brady of 815 Woodrow Street and a grandson of William M. Perry of Columbia. He was graduated in October 1940 from Kelly Field, the only South Carolinian to graduate in his class of 223 members.
Lieutenant Brady was a graduate of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, and then attended Clemson College, leaving that institution in his junior year to join the Air Corps. He took his primary training at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and finished second in his class of 230 at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
Bill Brady was married to Miss Betty Wilson of Columbia last February 19. Mrs. Brady had been with her husband at Hamilton Field, Calif., until his transfer only recently. He had advised his parents here that the transfer orders had been received but that he was not permitted to say where his new orders would take him.
Besides his widow and his parents, he is survived by a brother, Lieut. H.G. Brady, Jr., US Army Air Corps, now somewhere on the west coast; and two sisters, Mrs. Roy McCullough and Miss Betty Brady, both of Columbia.
Published in The State, February 19, 1942
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