Ultimately, Sobel was relieved of the command of Easy Company, and upon leaving, Winters saluted him, which was not met.
Later, Winters was punished by Sobel for not following an order, but requested a court martial, which is not what Sobel wanted. You've captured me." Sobel and his platoon appeared down the road, running towards the checkpoint, and the elderly man inquired, "Is that the enemy?" Winters says, "As a matter of fact, yes." Winters reached the checkpoint first, and his platoon come across an elderly man on a bike who put his hands up in mock surrender saying, "You Yanks have done it. Sobel and his platoon became lost and were blocked by a fence, and Sobel was tricked into cutting it by George Luz who was imitating Major Horton. While there, Sobel lead the 2nd Platoon in a race to a certain checkpoint, while Winters lead 1st Platoon. Many of the company members puked their meal as they were running.Īt Fort Benning, Winters qualified as a paratrooper and went with the Company to Camp Mackall, and later Camp Shanks in 1943.Įasy Company headed to Aldbourne, England to await orders and go through more training. But he then interrupted the meal by ordering the Company to go on a run in the rain anyway. Sobel gave Winters mess duty and asks him to make spaghetti as a reward for the men as it was a rainy day and they were not gonna be doing their run. Clarence Hester, who had been moved to Battalion. Winters was promoted to First Lieutenant by the now Captain Sobel and became the executive officer of Easy Company, replacing 1st Lt. Nixon that he was ordered by Sobel to arbitrarily select several privates to receive latrine duty as punishment for infractions, to which Lewis replied he had a headmaster like Sobel.
Winters replied in a joking manner, "He doesn't hate Easy Company. One night, when Winters was accompanying Easy Company up Currahee for a hike, Private Randleman complained that Sobel hated the Company. Winters and his men would run up and down Currahee mountain and were driven by Sobel to perform additional calisthenics beyond what other parachute companies were required. It was there he met the overly strict Captain Herbert Sobel, who commanded the company. He was assigned to 2nd Platoon as a platoon leader. He was assigned to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was impressed by the Paratroopers and chose to enlist in the Airborne at that time, and was sent to train at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. It was there he met his friend Lewis Nixon.Īfter graduating on June 2, 1942, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. After that experience, Winters chose to attend Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. For instance, the platoon leader talked to his platoon for an hour about the M1 Garand Rifle while holding a Springfield 1903 in his hands. Winters' platoon leader was from ROTC and did not know his job. However, after the United States entered the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, no further discharges were permitted and Winters was forced to remain in the army. He went through training at Camp Croft, South Carolina as a Private. Because at that time you could serve in the army for one year and be out, and to avoid being drafted in the beginning of a promising career.
He volunteered for the Army on August 25, 1941. He earned money by cutting grass, and later by working at a grocery store, and finally as a painter of high tension towers for Edison Electric Company. He graduated from Lancaster Boys' High School in 1937, and from Franklin & Marshall College in June 1941. His family moved to Ephrata when he was 8, and later to Lancaster. Richard Winters was born on January 21, 1918, in Dallas, Texas to Becky and Anita Bath Winters.
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