Biography

Country native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, graduated from Franklin Marshall College, Dick Richard Winters joined the army in 1941.
During basic training, Winters was intrigued by one of his training officer who made a speech explaining an hour on a gun he thought he held in his hands when it was not good one.

It is during his basic training that Winters discovers that the airborne troops. He decides to volunteer in the "Airborne troops" which he did not know, like much of the Americans at the time.

He joins Easy Company during the summer of 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant at Toccoa, Georgia. Relations between Winters and his supervisor, Captain Herbert Sobel, are not good, and to avoid tensions that may affect the smooth running of operations, Sobel is transferred to another regiment and replaced by Lieutenant Thomas Meehan.

In Normandy, Meehan is killed on D-Day, and Winters runs the Easy by substitution. He makes a very good job in this role and the U.S. Command, during the evolution of the fights in Europe, decides to give him new ranks. Richard D. Winters is Major at the end of the Second World War.

Winters a été un officier très proche de ses hommes, n'hésitant pas à se porter au-devant des assauts, analysant de manière rapide et efficace les situations (l'assaut qu'il a organisé et commandé le Jour J près du Manoir de Brécourt en Normandie est de nos jours étudié, commenté et enseigné à l'école américaine des officiers de West Point pour son étonnante efficacité) et n'hésitant pas à refuser des ordres qu'il jugeait inutiles, comme à Haguenau, en Alsace, où Winters a refusé de mettre sur pied une patrouille de combat. Winters was an officer close to his men, not hesitating to move in front of the attacks, analyzing quickly and efficiently the situations (the attack that he organized and led on D-Day at the Manor Brécourt in Normandy is now studied at the US Military Academy of West Point and at Saint-Cyr, the French military academy).

Richard Dick Winters died on January 2nd, 2011. He was 92.

Operation "Medal of Honor for Richard D. Winters"

Many associations have been calling for several years that Dick Richard Winters receives the most distinguished American military medal: the famous Medal of Honor. But that request has not yet finished.

The website DDay-Overlord agrees that Richard Dick Winters gets the Medal of Honor in recognition of his actions on D-Day in Normandy.

To take part in the operation "Medal of Honor to Richard D. Winters", click here.