This is the story of Eric Fisher Wood . Eric Wood was a 1st Lt with the with Battery A, 589th Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division, and was stationend at Herzfenn/Belgium on december 16th 1944. At first he wasn’t the first Lt . But the Germans run over the forwarded OP of Cpt Menke, who was surprised and got caught.
Eric Fisher Wood , Jr. was born to Lt . Colonel Eric Fisher Wood and the Baroness Vera de Ropp in Santa Barbara, California on 25 January 1919. In addition to his military career, Colonel Wood was an architect, an author, an explorer and one of four officers who co-founded the American Legion.
Eric Wood was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. Wood ’s father, General Eric Fisher Wood Sr.
was a member of Eisenhower’s staff and a World War I veteran. In civilian life, he was a prominent architect in the Pittsburgh area, although he was best known for …
