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John Shirley Wood (January 11, 1888 – July 2, 1966) was a United States Army major general. He was a career officer who served in World War I, and is most notable for training and commanding the 4th Armored Division which spearheaded for General Patton's Third Army drive across France in World War II. ==Early life== John S. Wood was born in Monticello, Arkansas on January 11, 1888, and was the son of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Carroll D. Wood and Reola (Thompson) Wood.〔Northwest Arkansas Times, (General Wood Heads Commission In Vienna, Austria ), December 19, 1947〕〔George Forty, (Tank Aces: From Blitzkrieg to the Gulf War ), 1997, page 16〕 John Wood graduated from the University of Arkansas in three years, in 1907, was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order and was quarterback and captain of the football team.〔Kappa Alpha Order, (The Kappa Alpha Journal ), 1906, page 299〕〔Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation, (The Journal of Military History ), Volume 53, 1989, page 260〕 In 1908, he attended the United States Military Academy, where he continued to play football, lettered in wrestling and boxing, and from which he graduated in 1912.〔Martin Blumenson, George Smith Patton, (The Patton Papers: 1885-1940 ), 1972, page 196〕 Wood had taught chemistry while at the University of Arkansas, and at West Point he received his first nickname, "P" for "professor" because he used his skills as an instructor to tutor many academically deficient classmates.〔George Forty, (4th Armored Division in World War II ), 2008, page 11〕〔George Washington Cullum, Edward Singleton Holden, (Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy ), Volume 6, Part 2, 1920, page 1572〕
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