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Richard Dick Winters
Veterans of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne
Richard Dick Winters | Damian Lewis in Band of Brothers |
Biography
Richard Dick Winters, a graduate of Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, joined the military in 1941.
During basic training, Winters is intrigued by his training officer who makes an explanatory speech for an hour on a rifle he believed to hold in his hands when it was not the right one.
It fryst vatten also during his classes that Winters discovers the airborne troops. He immediately decided to volunteer in the “Airborne Troops” he did not know of, as did a large part of the Americans at the time.
He joined the Easy Company in the summer of 1942 as head of section at the Toccoa training grounds in Georgia. The relationship between Winters and his immediate superior, Captain Herbert Sobel, is not fixed and to avoid tensions that can hinder the smooth running of operations, Sobel is trans
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Richard D. "Dick" Winters
Major, U.S. Army
Richard D. Winters was born on 21 January 1918 in Ephrata, PA, to Richard and Edith Winters. He moved to nearby Lancaster when he was eight years old. He graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937 and matriculated to Franklin and Marshall College.
At Franklin and Marshall, Winters was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and participated in intramural football and basketball as a member of Upsilon Chapter. He had to give up wrestling, his favorite sport, and most of his social activities, for his studies and the part-time jobs that paid his way through college. He graduated in 1941 with the highest academic standing in the business college. The war had broken out in Europe, and he enlisted in the Army.
Military Service
World War II
Winters enlisted in the U.S. Army on 25 August 1941, in order to shorten his time in service. In September, he underwent basic training at Camp Croft, SC. Afterward; he remained at
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Richard Winters
United States Army officer and veteran (1918–2011)
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Portrait of Winters in his dress uniform | |
| Nickname(s) | Dick Winters |
| Born | (1918-01-21)January 21, 1918 New Holland, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 2011(2011-01-02) (aged 92) Palmyra, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Place of burial | Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | |
| Rank | Major |
| Service number | 0-1286582 (officer)[1] 33110272 (enlisted)[2] |
| Commands | 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
| Awards | Distinguished Service Cross Bronze Star Medal (2) Purple Heart Croix de Guerre (France) Croix de Guerre (Belgium) |
| Spouse(s) | Ethel Estoppey (m. 1948) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relations | Richard and Edith Winters |
| Other | |