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THE CAPTAIN Captain Ralph Walter Dunstan Woods was born on 4 May 1902 at Chicago, Illinois. He received his early formal education at Cambridge, Massachusetts and was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the Class of 1923. He was a member of the A Squad in boxing and crew for three years while at the Naval Academy. His first assignments were on the U.S.S. WEST VIRGINIA and the U.S.S. ARKANSAS, where he received indoctrination as a battleship deck officer. His next tour was at the U. S. Naval Torpedo School, Newport, Rhode Island, under instruction in torpedo construction, operation and tactics. Following this was a tour on the U.S.S. CINCINNATI. The next step was from the anti-air- craft battery of the CINCINNATI to naval aviation. In 1926, Ensign Woods reported to the U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, as a stu- dent aviator. Then on 30 August 1927, as Lieutenant C junior gradej, he was appointed Naval Aviat- or number 3385. On 6 July 1929, Lieutenant C junior gradej Woods was married to Anita Birney Rhea at Annap- olis, Maryland. After tours with various squadrons, Lieutenant Commander Woods, as Commanding Officer of Scouting Squadron FORTY-TWO, won the annual Scouting Squadron Class Trophy for safety in flight operations from aircraft carriers. Upon completion of duty as Commanding Oflicer of Seaplane Training Squadron ONE at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, LCDR. Woods was assigned duty as Officer in Charge of the Aviation Cadet Regiment, and subsequently, of the Aviation Cadet Brigade. Soon after Pearl Harbor day, LCDR. Woods was ordered to the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, as Staff' Aviation Oflicer where he became successively a Commander and a Captain. In the Amphibious Force, Captain Woods participated in the Moroccan and the Sicilian 'invasions and was awarded the Legion of Merit with a UV.
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