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An excerpt from Hood’s citation for the Distinguished Service Cross is as follows:

“Hood brought the battery into action under fire, superintended the placing of guns and the unloading of ammunition, and directed the fire of the battery under an intense enfilading fire. When the entire gun crew of his first piece was wiped out, he hastily formed a supplementary gun squad and succeeded in getting the first piece into action again within four minutes. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for these actions.”

According to the Army, Hood returned home in 1919 as commander of Supply Company, 12th Field Artillery, 2nd Division. After the war, he remained in the Army and married Hazel McMinn. The couple had two daughters, Mary Louise Cheatham and Margaret Jane Williams. While Hood was stationed at Schofield Barracks, an Army post in Hawaii, the family survived the Pearl Harbor attack. Hood continued service in the Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during World War II and commanding an artillery training unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He retired from the Army in 1961 at the rank of colonel and passed away at the age of 73 on Oct. 12, 1964, in Jasper County, Missouri.

Col. Robert B. Hood, born in Kansas in 1891, was commissioned in 1917 and earned the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in World War I. He retired in 1961 and died in 1964.

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