WOOD, WALTER SUTTON

Name: Walter Sutton Wood
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 14 June 1931
Home City of Record: FORT BRAGG NC
Date of Loss: 02 May 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 184700 North  1054800 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:A4E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS:

CACCF/CRASH NORTH VIETNAM/PILOT/14 YRS UNITED STATES NAVY

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress Files:

North Vietnam, pre-1975: PERSONNEL CASUALTY REPORT. ADDITIONAL MESSAGE
RELATED TO THE INCIDENT IS INCLUDED
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: WALTER S. WOOD

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed

Comments: OVER WATER

Reel: 228

Page: 5-10

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 66 05 02

Date of Information: 66 05 02

Document Number: 021026ZMAY66

Originator: USS RANGER


North Vietnam, pre-1975: CHANGE OF CATEGORY FROM "DEAD (BNR)" TO "REMAINS
NONRECOVERABLE"
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: WALTER S. WOOD

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed; OVER WATER

Comments: INCLUDES RELATED DOCUMENT.

Reel: 228

Page: 23-24

Type of Document: Memorandum

Date of Report: 74 09 06

Date of Information: 66 05 02

Originator: JCRC

Category: Casualty files


VM: BIOGRAPHIC/SITE REPORT/ Update for Refno 0325-1-01
Country: VM

Name: WOOD, WALTER SUTTON

Subjects: Aircraft downed; WATER SITE

Reel: 366

Page: 67-68

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 93 12 15

Date of Information: 66 05 02

Originator: JTFFA

Category: JTFFA FILES

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02/2020

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LCDR WALTER SUTTON WOOD

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Lieutenant Commander Walter Sutton Wood, who joined the U.S. Navy from North Carolina, was a member of Attack Squadron 55, embarked aboard the USS Ranger (CVA 61). On May 2, 1966, he piloted a single-seat A-4E Skyhawk (tail number 151034, call sign "Garfish 412") on a strike mission against enemy targets off the coast of North Vietnam. He was making a rocket run on a defended barge when his aircraft crashed into the water. Witnesses in other aircraft on the mission reported that LCDR Wood parachuted from his aircraft before it crashed and that he landed in the water in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q WF 822 774. After landing, he appeared entangled in his parachute and sank. A rescue aircraft searched for LCDR Wood but was unsuccessful. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Lieutenant Commander Wood is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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