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Gallant Statue dick1/19/2024 As an experimental regiment, the 506th PIC saw a horde of brave volunteers who had qualified for paratrooper training. At the time of his graduation, Winters was commissioned as a second lieutenant and sent to complete more paratrooper training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia after five weeks had passed, Winters was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIC), Easy Company. At OCS, Winters decided to pursue paratrooper certification – a designation that had only recently become available with the creation of the Army’s new airborne forces. It was here Winters met fellow future officer and long-time friend, Lewis Nixon. ![]() In April of 1942, Winters was put forth as a contender to attend Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia. His good nature and inspiring leadership capabilities resulted in the devotion of other trainees towards him noticing this, officials of the camp recruited Winters as an instructor while the rest of his unit was deployed to Panama. In September of 1941, Winters began basic training at Camp Croft, South Carolina. The attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. This remained true until December 7th, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States officially entered the war, upon which the number of draftees and the rules surrounding them both augmented. Since Winters was a volunteer and not a draftee, his contract still fell under the 12 month period. Winters’s enlistment occurred a mere seven days after President Roosevelt signed the Service Extension Act of 1941 into law on August 18th this addendum now mandated a period of 30 months of service for those drafted. ![]() Marking the day in his journal, Winters wrote “I had no desire to get into the war,” but did so to fulfill the mandatory one year of service under the recently ratified Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (America’s first peacetime conscription ordinance). Following his graduation, in the summer of 1941 Winters enlisted in the United States Army. In 1937 he was enrolled at Franklin and Marshall College, a private liberal arts university in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in the field of Economics. Winters smiling for a photograph at Camp MacKall, North Carolina, 1943.īorn Januin New Holland, Pennsylvania, Dick had a very average childhood alongside his parents Richard Sr.
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