Wood, Harold Baker
First Name
Harold
Middle Name
Baker
Last Name
Wood
Serial Number
3720681
Service Branch
Navy
Highest Rank
Boatswain's Mate 2c
War or Action
World War II
Place Of Birth
Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
County
Mesa
Biography

Served aboard USS Arizona. Son of Grace Ellen Traynor of Grand Junction. Enlisted on September 9, 1938. Transferred to USS Arizona on December 31, 1938. Tranferred to USS Colorado for temporary duty in AA Battery Gunnery School on June 16, 1940. Returned to USS Arizona on July 29, 1940 and promoted to Coxswain. Listed upon Courts of the Missing. Awarded Purple Heart.

Place Of Burial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii
Place Of Death
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S.
Circumstances
Missing In Action
Row Number
104
Column Number
3
Panel Number
12

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