James Henry Wood was married to Helen Schenler Wood. They had 3 children, James Schenler Wood, Walter J. Wood and Candace L. Wood-Osterwald.
During WW2, Jim served for 2 1/2 years in the Pacific on a destroyer, the U. S. S. Melvin (DD 680). He and a fellow officer were credited with boarding a sister ship, the U. S. S. Hazelwood, which had been heavily damaged when hit by a kamikaze plane off Okinawa on April 29, 1945. After a night long fight they were able, with the assistance of the remaining officers and men still aboard, to extinguish the fires, establish emergency communications, and restart the still functional parts of the vessel's engineering plant. By the following day, Hazelwood was underway again at 14 knots, headed for temporary repairs at a nearby anchorage and then to a West Coast Navy Yard.
When the war ended, he remained in the Naval Reserve until retiring as a Commander.
Jim was a graduate of Washington University class of 1940
During WW2, Jim served for 2 1/2 years in the Pacific on a destroyer, the U. S. S. Melvin (DD 680). He and a fellow officer were credited with boarding a sister ship, the U. S. S. Hazelwood, which had been heavily damaged when hit by a kamikaze plane off Okinawa on April 29, 1945. After a night long fight they were able, with the assistance of the remaining officers and men still aboard, to extinguish the fires, establish emergency communications, and restart the still functional parts of the vessel's engineering plant. By the following day, Hazelwood was underway again at 14 knots, headed for temporary repairs at a nearby anchorage and then to a West Coast Navy Yard.
When the war ended, he remained in the Naval Reserve until retiring as a Commander.
Jim was a graduate of Washington University class of 1940
James Henry Wood was married to Helen Schenler Wood. They had 3 children, James Schenler Wood, Walter J. Wood and Candace L. Wood-Osterwald.
During WW2, Jim served for 2 1/2 years in the Pacific on a destroyer, the U. S. S. Melvin (DD 680). He and a fellow officer were credited with boarding a sister ship, the U. S. S. Hazelwood, which had been heavily damaged when hit by a kamikaze plane off Okinawa on April 29, 1945. After a night long fight they were able, with the assistance of the remaining officers and men still aboard, to extinguish the fires, establish emergency communications, and restart the still functional parts of the vessel's engineering plant. By the following day, Hazelwood was underway again at 14 knots, headed for temporary repairs at a nearby anchorage and then to a West Coast Navy Yard.
When the war ended, he remained in the Naval Reserve until retiring as a Commander.
Jim was a graduate of Washington University class of 1940
During WW2, Jim served for 2 1/2 years in the Pacific on a destroyer, the U. S. S. Melvin (DD 680). He and a fellow officer were credited with boarding a sister ship, the U. S. S. Hazelwood, which had been heavily damaged when hit by a kamikaze plane off Okinawa on April 29, 1945. After a night long fight they were able, with the assistance of the remaining officers and men still aboard, to extinguish the fires, establish emergency communications, and restart the still functional parts of the vessel's engineering plant. By the following day, Hazelwood was underway again at 14 knots, headed for temporary repairs at a nearby anchorage and then to a West Coast Navy Yard.
When the war ended, he remained in the Naval Reserve until retiring as a Commander.
Jim was a graduate of Washington University class of 1940
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