Name: Eric Fisher Wood Jr
First Name(s): Eric Fisher
Last Name: Wood Jr
Place of birth: California, Los Angeles Cnty, Los Angeles
Rank: 1 Lt Battery Commander
ASN: O-517724
Company: A Btry
Unit: 589th FAB 106th ID
Reported as: KIA
Date of incident: 17-12-1944
Place of incident: Meyerode
note: FOD January 23, 1945 by local woodmen August Pauels and Servatius Maraite.
A mile south of the town, not far from the six way trail crossing, they found the frozen body of 1 Lt Eric F Wood Jr. Around him, there were seven dead German soldiers.
Read the heroic but sadly ending story of 1 Lt Wood Jr @website The Battle of the Bulge.
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