Wood George A.

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George A. Wood is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

C-47 (43-48611) Crash Churchyard Memorial

Name:

George A. Wood

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-748306

Unit:

1405th Army Air Forces Base Unit

Date of Death:

1945-01-18

State:

Washington

Cemetery:

Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA

Plot:

Section B

Row:

Grave:

Site 306

Decoration:

Comments:

George A. Wood was born on August 26, 1917, in Clear Lake, Skagit County, Washington. He was the son of Henry Franklin Wood and Iona Gertrude Wellington Wood.

George served in the 1405th Army Air Forces Base Unit as a Second Lieutenant and Co-Pilot on the C-47 #43-48611 during World War II. On January 18, 1945, he was killed in an air crash when they took off from A-54 airfield in Le Bourget, France, to transport passengers to Station 343 in Biggin Hill, England. Due to an unknown reason, the aircraft crashed approximately 7 minutes later after they took off. Eighteen people were killed in this accident, while four were seriously injured.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, francecrashes39-45.net