Age 22. 28 East Bennett Street, Kingston, PA. Born on 12/24/1919, Kingston, PA. Died of burns (death certificate). Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve, based at the Boston Navy Yard (lodging at 1019 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA). Companion (or companions) if any at the club unknown. Was subject of a letter by Pharmacist's Mate Richard J. Osgood, U.S. Navy (not present), assigned to the Chelsea Naval Hospital morgue, to Yankee magazine, November 1998: "About three or so in the morning, I answered the phone. It was the duty officer...asking if we had an Ensign Swan. His father was there, looking for his son." Replied in the affirmative. "He directed me to check the color of the young man's eyes. I checked and returned to the phone to say that they were blue." Added: "Then he asked that I bring all of Ensign Swan's personal effects to his office." Graduate of Kingston, PA, High School in 1937. Graduate of Pennsylvania State College, 1941. Wife former Miss Betty Mae Noll, age 20 (Born 2/04/1922. Died as Betty N. Brennan on 4/12/1989, age 67), married on 5/19/1942, in State College, PA. Wife was not present. Prior to his induction in August was employed by the state college as an assistant district representative in charge of Defense Training Centers. Local address shown above was the residence of a Mrs. Elizabeth Harrigan, not present (both his home and lodging addresses appeared on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of dead). Was to transfer to Georgetown, VA, for training the following Thursday. Was slender (WWII draft registration, July '41: 5' 11," 145 lbs.). Eyes were actually grey, hair blond (WWII draft registration). One of seven taken from Pennsylvania (also Ensign John Bauer, U.S.N.R., age 27, Miss Marie Louise Hollander, age 21, Miss Sydney McKenna, age 19, Miss Bernice Sussman, age 20, Miss Margaret "Peg" Whitson, age 17, and Miss Alean Winkelman, age 18, the latter two Wellesley College coeds), tied (with Alabama) as the fourth-most from any state after Massachusetts (406), New York (15) and New Hampshire (9). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Scovel B., Sr., and Marguerite (Ferguson) Swan, same Kingston, PA, address. Parents were awarded a $500 benefit for the death of their son while on active duty from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania WWII Veterans Compensation fund in July 1950. Burial at Union Cemetery, Jacksonville, PA. Middle name Brown.

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