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Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan

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Douglas Corrigan was nicknamed  'Wrong Way' after he flew from Floyd Bennett Field to Ireland instead of returning home to Long Beach, California, a navigational error that seemed to have been deliberate when he was denied permission to make the transatlantic flight.

Flight, July 17, 1938
Parade, Aug 4, 1938
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Current Locations
Floyd Bennett Field
3159 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11234, USA
From California to here. He left for Ireland
City Pier A
22 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10004, USA
He and his plane returned to New York on the steamship Manhattan
Previous Locations
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Doug Corrigan

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The following day, he was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway.

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Corrigan hailed by Brooklyn and New York Admirers

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