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  • • Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott A.M. Oswell, 33, Washington, died in Mosul of wounds suffered when his helicopter struck a power line; assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S.

    July 2007 2007

  • Chief Warrant Officer Scott A.M. Oswell, 33, of Washington, died July 4 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his helicopter struck a power line.

    Gulf War II 2007

  • Chief Warrant Officer Scott A.M. Oswell, 33, of Washington, died July 4 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his helicopter struck a power line.

    Gulf War II 2007

  • Not much yet in Oswell but that is going to pop up I would say in a number of minutes.

    CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007 2007

  • Murray went forward with them, while Oswell and I remained to bring the wagons on their trail as far as the cattle could drag them, intending then to send the oxen forward too.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Oswell and I followed as soon as I had reloaded, and when we were in sight of the buffalo, and gaining on him at every stride, three lions leaped on the unfortunate brute; he bellowed most lustily as he kept up a kind of running fight, but he was, of course, soon overpowered and pulled down.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • We had reason to be proud of his success, for the inhabitants conceived from it a very high idea of English courage; and when they wished to flatter me would say, “If you were not a missionary you would just be like Oswell; you would not hunt with dogs either.”

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Messrs. Oswell and Vardon once saw three lions endeavoring to drag down a buffalo, and they were unable to do so for a time, though he was then mortally wounded by a two-ounce ball. 18 18

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Messrs. Oswell and Murray came at the end of May, and we all made a fair start for the unknown region on the 1st of June, 1849.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • At the time of the discovery of the lake, Messrs. Oswell and Wilson shot two specimens of another variety.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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