Charles Mills Wood, Sr & Mary Beulah Smith
Husband of Nell Rice Wynn
Providence Journal-Enterprise
7 SEP 1950 - OBIT: Final rites for Lieutenant Commander Charles Mills WOOD, Jr., and members of his fighter bomber crew will be held at 11:30 Friday morning, Sept. 8, at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, near Louisville. The plane in which Lt. Comdr. Wood and his men were flying disappeared during a bombing mission in the Philippines on 22 MAR 1945 and only recently was found and the men identified. Lt. Comdr. Wood was the son of the late C.M. Wood of Princeton and Mrs. Wood who now resides in Louisville. After finishing his high school work in Princeton he attended Marion Military Institute, Marion, AL and graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD in 1940. He served aboard the battleship U.S.S. Nevada before going into Naval Aviation. He married the former Nell Rice WYNN of Providence and is survived by one son, Charles Mills Wood III.
Charles Mills Wood, Sr & Mary Beulah Smith
Husband of Nell Rice Wynn
Providence Journal-Enterprise
7 SEP 1950 - OBIT: Final rites for Lieutenant Commander Charles Mills WOOD, Jr., and members of his fighter bomber crew will be held at 11:30 Friday morning, Sept. 8, at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, near Louisville. The plane in which Lt. Comdr. Wood and his men were flying disappeared during a bombing mission in the Philippines on 22 MAR 1945 and only recently was found and the men identified. Lt. Comdr. Wood was the son of the late C.M. Wood of Princeton and Mrs. Wood who now resides in Louisville. After finishing his high school work in Princeton he attended Marion Military Institute, Marion, AL and graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD in 1940. He served aboard the battleship U.S.S. Nevada before going into Naval Aviation. He married the former Nell Rice WYNN of Providence and is survived by one son, Charles Mills Wood III.
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