WOOD, Eric Fisher, Jr.  
 
PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Wood, Eric Fisher, Jr.
Date of birth: January 25th, 1919 (Los Angeles/California, United States)
Date of death:  January 22nd, 1945 (near Meyerode/province of Liège, Belgium)
Buried on:  Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial
Nationality:  American
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS (DSC)
Rank: 1st Lieutenant
Unit: Battery A, 589th Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division "Golden Lions" U.S. Army
Action: For action performed on 17 December 1944, near Schönberg, Arrondissement of Verviers, Belgium.
Details: Posthumously awarded. Citation unavailable. War Department, General Orders No. 14 (1947).
 
     
SILVER STAR
Rank: 1st Lieutenant
Unit: Battery A, 589th Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division "Golden Lions" U.S. Army
Details: Posthumously awarded. Citation unavailable.
 
     
BRONZE STAR (BS)
 
     
PURPLE HEART
 
     
OORLOGSKRUIS 1940/CROIX DE GUERRE 1940
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Tolhurst, M., Saint Vith 106th US Infantry Division - Battleground Europe Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited, Barnsley, England, 1999
- Dupuy, R.E., St. Vith Lion in the Way – The 106th Infantry Division in World War II, The Battery Press, Nashville, USA, 1986
- homeofheroes.com
- indianamilitary.org
- 106th Infantry Division, in the Lion's den
   
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