Lieutenant LeRoy Amos Swan

1894 - 1918  (24 years)

• Name	LeRoy Amos Swan
  Title	Lieutenant
  Birth	5 Jun 1894	Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	U.S. Army Air Corps
  	About April 1, 1918, he was ordered to the Wilbur Wright Aviation Field, Dayton, Ohio. He was assigned to the experimental work on mechanical gears for synchronizing the machine gun firing so that the shots would always pass between the propeller blades of the firing airplane. All the ground tests had been completed under his supervision. On June 19, 1918, Lieutenant Swan took to the air to make the first firing tests under actual flying conditions. These tests were successfully completed. At an altitude of 10,000 feet, Lieutenant Frank Paterson, of Dayton, Ohio, an experienced officer of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who was acting as pilot, sent the machine into a nose dive. When he attempted to bring the airplane to a normal flying position, some part failed, the wings of the aircraft collapsed. Lieutenants Paterson and Swan were dead at the scene of the accident when the rescuers responded.
  		LeRoy Amos Swan A Modern History of New London County Volume II. Edited by Benjamin Tinkham Marshall. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1922. Biographical page (facing) 98.
  Death	19 Jun 1918	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ohio
  		LeRoy Amos Swan Death Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Connecticut), 20 Jun 1918, Thursday, Page 5
  		LeRoy Amos Swan Death LeRoy Amos Swan Death
  Burial	20 Jun 1918	Maplewood Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
  		Swan Monument Completed Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Connecticut), 29 Apr 1919, Tuesday, Page 5
  Person ID	I58930	Nagel
  Last Modified	24 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Amos Coddington Swan,   b. 28 Dec 1863, Montville, New London, Connecticut d. 21 Jan 1920, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Jennie Pease Parsons,   b. 6 Jul 1864, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 11 Sep 1919, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	17 Aug 1886	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  		Amos Swan and Jennie Parsons Marriage Amos Swan and Jennie Parsons Marriage, Line #71
  Family ID	F17443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edna Margaret Troland,   b. Jan 1894, Connecticut d. 27 Dec 1918, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	22 Nov 1917	Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  		LeRoy Swan and Edna Troland Marriage Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Connecticut), 23 Nov 1917, Friday, Page 5
  Family ID	F17445	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2021

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 5 Jun 1894 - Norwich, New London, Connecticut Marriage - 22 Nov 1917 - Norwich, New London, Connecticut Death - 19 Jun 1918 - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ohio Burial - 20 Jun 1918 - Maplewood Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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  LeRoy Amos Swan Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1918