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Identity card : |
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| • Name / Surname |
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Wood Charles V. |
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Private First Class de l'US Army |
| • Serial Number |
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36950291 |
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Biography : |
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Committed in the army on February 23, 1944 to Strong Sheridan, Illinois, he is sent on February 26 to Indiantown Gap Military Reservation and arrives on February 27, 1944 being assigned to the 95-th Division of Infantry, Company B of the 377-th Regiment. He is classified as foot soldier. He receives 8 weeks from basic training with his company.
After the basic training he joins Mountain Climbing School where he makes many operations with his company. On July 25, 1944, they leave the camp and arrive at Camp Myles Standish to get ready to go aboard boats to gain win Europe. He and his company leave Boston
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on August 9. They rise in the boats of crossing and go to Liverpool, in England. On September 15 they cross La Manche and land on Omaha Beach in Normandy. On October 20 they arrive at Uckange and wait for the orders to cross the Moselle to go to Metz. According to Chuck Wood's recollections, the company crossed the river early in the morning on November 8, 1944. He is hospitalized on November 15 because of one " trench foot ". Then he joins his company at the beginning of 1945 till the end of the war. He spends again several months to the hospital from Verdun to France.
The photo above was taken at the beginning of 1945 to Etampes in France during its repatriation towards a hospital in England. He had " trench foot ", that is feet frozen by the cold having stayed for such a long time in individual holes or cut fill with water.
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Some photos : |
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This photo was taken to Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania about in the middle of March on 1944. Chuck is between his two friends.
Telegram received by the parents of Chuck Wood announcing them by mistake the death of their son.
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