Phil Wood's Photos

BOOT & OFFICER TRAINING: Parris Island, Quantico OCS, 1942.
Private Phil Wood on the bayonet course, Parris Island. He is carrying the M1903 Springfield rifle.

Phil Wood, unidentified Marine, and Roy Wood outside their barracks at OCS, Quantico, VA. Probably taken in the summer of 1942, each still sports their single PFC stripe earned in boot camp.

After graduation from OCS, sporting the brand new lieutenant's bars.

ADVANCED TRAINING. Camp Pendleton, 1943.

Howie Haff after field exercises - the "30 miles in 6 1/2 hours" is a reference to a long march back from a field problem when Able Company, to the annoyance of its members, was the only company of First Battalion not to ride back to Pendleton in a truck.
















John Czepiel is treated by a corpsman for a common Pendleton ailment.

Captain Schechter's jeep.

Howie Haff and Howard Kerr take a break for some noon chow.

The officers of First Battalion on the set of the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary.

Phil Wood's handwritten key for identifying the men pictured above.

"Your moustachio'd friend, Roy Wood, The Captain, Oz - his father just had a book published - "Say I Of Myself" - second or third printing now. But it's boring as the devil! And Smitty - David E. Smith. He wasn't in the company when you were out, Mother - from Missouri, literally. But a good guy."First Battalion officers aboard the USS DuPage, en route to Namur.

"The 24th's Agony Quartette - this is our picture for the press. Reading from left - right: The Legal Eagle, "Fire" Stott, Big Harry Reynolds and T.K. Johnson.
Also pictured is the biggest piece of open floor on the damn ship."

REST CAMP: Camp Maui, spring of 1944.

Lt. Phil Wood at Camp Maui, 1944.

The mortar section, Camp Maui, 1944.

3rd Row: Claude Henderson, Leo Ksiekievicz, JJ Franey, Tom Johnson, John Czepiel
2nd Row: Wilbur Plitt, Edward Hackett, Donald Peters, [unknown], Taxi Wanagaitis, [unknown], Ronald Bartels
1st Row: Howie Haff, Edward Lykins, Frank Gosiewski, Ronald Palmer, Joe Roff, Bill Imm

Lt. Wood (with white shirt) and his mortar section, 1944.

"The pictures with Harry are the conventional thing to do here, but it took a bit of persuading to get Harry to do it. For a quarter more it would show her kissing us, she said, but we said we didn’t have another quarter. You can even see the rosy glow on Harry’s face."

Official photo of the dedication of the 4th Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan.

Grave on Saipan.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.