[3] When the United States entered World War II, Wood enlisted in the US Navy, serving in the Pacific and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.
Among his doctoral students was the famous astrophysicist and science fiction writer Yoji Kondo.
The International Astronomical Union dedicated to Professor Wood the book Algols — Proceedings of the 107th Colloquium (from the meeting held in August 1988 in Sidney, British Columbia).
[3] He ... helped, in various ways, the development of an active observatory in the southern hemisphere, and encouraged amateurs in observing and publishing times of minima of eclipsing variables.
He was also instrumental in promoting and supporting an automated photometric telescope at the South Pole, and thus, in 1968, he became a member of the Advisory Group on Polar Astronomy to the Committee of Polar Research of the US National Academy of Sciences, taking the first telescope to the South Pole in 1984 where he observed the brightest Wolf-Rayet star in the sky, γ2 Velorum, publishing the results in 1988.