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Personal info

Full name
WOOD, James Gleason
Date of birth
6 February 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
Quail, Collingsworth County, Texas
Hometown
Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico

Military service

Service number
38584574
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
110th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
27 May 1945
Place of death
Dudweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 1 14

Immediate family

Members
James H. Wood (father)
Lou I. (Brewster) Wood (mother)
Inez Wood (sister)
Frances Wood (sister)
Audrey (Wright) Wood (wife)

More information

Pfc James G. Wood attended college and was employed as a barber at Carrington Barber Shop.

He enlisted at Fort Bliss, Texas on 29 June 1944 and was sent overseas in December 1944.
He was killed when he stepped on a mine.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / New Mexico WWII Records / 1920 Census, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, Clovis News-Journal - 14 June 1945