Graduated from Crafton High School with the class of 1941. He was accepted at West Point, and completed his training there in three years. He was married to Crafton-ite Mary Simpson in December of 1944. The wedding ceremony took place in St. Philips church. Wood then completed flight training in the Army Air Corps, graduating at Waco, Texas. He shipped overseas and was stationed on Okinawa as a P-47 fighter pilot. Wood died in a plane crash in July of 1946. His short life came full circle when he was given a military funeral at St. Philip church. The doctor who attended Wood at the crash site on Okinawa came back to the states and was discharged. In a remarkable coincidence, he was the doctor in attendance when Wood’s son, Leonard, was delivered on November 16, 1946. Dr. Piergeorge was in attendance (Graduated Pitt medical school)