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at Montgomery, Alabama. Also flying at this event were Peck, Kantner, Brindley, Heth, Mitchell and Schneider. From there the entire group moved to Birmingham, Alabama for a meet held April 8th to 15th. At that time Sherwood was advertising the Church-Sherwood Flying School at Nassau Boulevard.

After returning to New York he had a smash at Nassau when he lost control in making a slow turn near the ground and badly wrecked the left side of his plane, but escaped unhurt. On May 26th he took off at Nassau Boulevard and flew across New York City to Hackensack, New Jersey where he put on an exhibition, the returned to Nassau. Sherwood continued to do some flying during the summer of 1912, including some exhibition dates. On August 22d he flew at Tamergo, Illinois.

After the 1912 season he apparently was not actively flying until the early spring of 1916 when he became instructor for the Interstate Flying School at Mineola, Long Island. In May of that year he was also a member of the Aviation Unit of the New York National Guard at Hempstead, Long Island.

In the early spring of 1917 Sherwood joined the Aviation Reserves, Signal Corps, United States Army and was sent to the Curtiss Flying School at Newport News, Virginia for a refresher course on the newer planes. After completing this course he was sent to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York for a ground school course. Information is lacking as to when he was sent overseas, but Sherwood and two other men were killed in an air collision in France in February, 1918. 

Flying Pioneer Oliver B. Sherwood was one of the many early young men who enthusiastically learned to fly, apparently for the sport of it, then answered the call to service in World War I to unfortunately lose his life [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] while in the service of his country.