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Contact Info
Home Town Chicago, ILL
Date of Passing Aug 10, 1982
Location of Interment Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (VA) - San Diego, California
Legion of Merit
Awarded for Actions During World War II
Service: Navy
Rank: Captain
General Orders: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 336 (March 1945)
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Captain [then Commander] Ralph W. D. Woods, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Aviation Officer on the staff of an amphibious force commander prior to and during the landing operations in French Morocco, 8 - 11 November 1942. Captain Woods labored tirelessly in formulating vital plans and orders in preparation for the large-scale assault and contributed immeasurably to the success of our landings.
Description The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when American troops forcefully intervened with various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the U.S. in Nicaragua throughout this period. American military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to stop any other nation except the United States of America from building a Nicaraguan Canal.
Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status under the 1916 Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. But with the onset of the Great Depression and Augusto C. Sandino's Nicaraguan guerrilla troops fighting back against U.S. troops, it became too costly for the U.S. government and a withdrawal was ordered in 1933.
