Phil Wood's Letters
Memorials and Mementoes
Saved by Margretta Wood, Gretchen Wood Williams, and Geoffrey Roecker
1944 – 2014
The photographs, articles, and ephemera below were saved by members of Phil Wood's family.
Philip Wood's grave on Saipan, 1944.
This plaque hung on the wall of the officer's mess at Camp Maui.
Obituaries for Phil Wood, 1944.
Scrapbook mentions of the 4th Marine Division saved by Margretta Wood.
Scrapbook mentions of the 4th Marine Division saved by Margretta Wood.
A commemorative certificate issued by Philip Wood's fraternity.
An obituary for Phil Wood, likely in Swarthmore's Garnet Letter alumni magazine.
The "War Casualty List" in Swarthmore's Garnet Letter alumni magazine.
Excerpt from a 1946 memorial service at Swarthmore.
A comforting message for Margretta Wood. "Samuel S. Rosen" is unknown.
Accolades from Yale Law School, 1944.
Program for a memorial service at Yale, 1946.
Program for a memorial service at Yale, 1946.
Philip Wood's grave at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, 1948.
Postcard view of the "Punchbowl" cemetery from a 1978 trip taken by Gretchen Wood Williams.
Phil Wood's grave on 5 July 2014, the 70th anniversary of his death.
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