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LCDR Charles Mills Wood Jr.

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LCDR Charles Mills Wood Jr.

Birth
Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA
Death
22 Mar 1945 (aged 27)
Pontevedra, Negros Occidental Province, Western Visayas, Philippines
Burial
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
I, 213
Memorial ID
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Son of
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.
Son of
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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LCDR, US NAVY WORLD WAR II



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  • Maintained by: Kay and Mike
  • Originally Created by: Marigay
  • Added: May 15, 2004
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8759481/charles_mills-wood: accessed ), memorial page for LCDR Charles Mills Wood Jr. (1 Dec 1917–22 Mar 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8759481, citing Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by Kay and Mike (contributor 46901741).