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FltO Eugene Warren Wood
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FltO Eugene Warren Wood Veteran

Birth
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Death
11 Jun 1943 (aged 21)
At Sea
Monument
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England GPS-Latitude: 52.2161014, Longitude: 0.0550792
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Eugene entered the service from Oregon

Enlisted 11 November 1941 Ft. Lewis, Washington

Missing in Action


Crew:

Malcolm MacKinnon, Pilot

Gene Wood, Co-pilot

Richard "Dick" Miller, Navigator

Windell D. Neely, Bombardier

George Babich, Radio Operator/TTG

John Vail, Ball turret gunner

Richard "Dick" Cavanaugh, Waist gunner

John Davoren, Waist gunner

Alexander Marek, Tail gunner

Stanley Bennett, Tail gunner

(10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft attacked, ship exploded, crashed North Sea, 70 miles N of Texel Is, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2807. LONESOME POLECAT.

Eugene entered the service from Oregon

Enlisted 11 November 1941 Ft. Lewis, Washington

Missing in Action


Crew:

Malcolm MacKinnon, Pilot

Gene Wood, Co-pilot

Richard "Dick" Miller, Navigator

Windell D. Neely, Bombardier

George Babich, Radio Operator/TTG

John Vail, Ball turret gunner

Richard "Dick" Cavanaugh, Waist gunner

John Davoren, Waist gunner

Alexander Marek, Tail gunner

Stanley Bennett, Tail gunner

(10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft attacked, ship exploded, crashed North Sea, 70 miles N of Texel Is, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2807. LONESOME POLECAT.


Inscription

FLT O 412 BOMB SQ 95 BOMB GP (H) OREGON



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  • Maintained by: Skip Farrow
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56295700/eugene_warren-wood: accessed ), memorial page for FltO Eugene Warren Wood (10 Dec 1921–11 Jun 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56295700, citing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by Skip Farrow (contributor 47380732).