Leighton Wilson Hazelhurst, Jr.

Leighton Wilson Hazelhurst Jr. was a pioneer aviator who was killed in an aircrash with Al Welsh piloting. Hazelhurst was the third United States Army officer to die in an aviation accident. The two to die before him were Thomas Etholen Selfridge and George Edward Maurice Kelly.

He was born in July 1887 in Macon, Georgia to Jessie M. and Leighton Wilson Hazelhurst Sr. . His father worked for the railroad. Leighton Jr. was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He was a classmate of Hap Arnolds. He was an appointee from Mississippi. He graduated and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 17th Infantry in 1908.

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