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2nd Battalion: Lt Col. Robert L. Strayer; ... Command Pathfinder School: Lt.Col. Joel E. Crouch, commandant (RAF North Witham) 1st Pathfinder Group (Provisional)
[3]: 4 He graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937 and attended Franklin and Marshall College. [4] [3]: 6 At Franklin and Marshall, Winters was a member of the Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and participated in intramural football and basketball. He had to give up wrestling, his favorite sport, and most of his social ...
Robert Frederick Sink (April 3, 1905 – December 13, 1965) was a senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II and the Korean War, though he was most famous for his command of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, throughout most of World War II, in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
3rd Battalion, 502nd PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Cole (KIA September 18th) 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Colonel Robert F. Sink. 1st Battalion, 506th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Harwick, James L. LaPrade; 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Strayer; 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver M. Horton ...
Colonel Sink issued a general order citing the company's 1st Platoon for gallantry in action, calling their attack a "daring act and skillful maneuver against a numerically superior force". [ 20 ] In October, E Company helped rescue more than 100 British troops trapped since September's Battle of Arnhem in German-occupied territory by the Lower ...
during WWII was a Lieutenant colonel in Army Corps of Engineers, Deputy Engineer-in-Chief with the South East Asia Command (1943–1945); Commanding General, Advance Section, U.S. Forces, China Burma India Theater, and Chief of Staff of X Force (the Chinese Army in India) (1945).
2nd Lieutenant USA, Captain USV, Lieutenant Colonel CSA; Indian Wars and Mexican–American War; served as an artillery officer William J. Hardee: 1838 Lieutenant Colonel USA, Lieutenant General CSA; 2nd Seminole War, Mexican–American War; noted military tactician; fought in several battles during the American Civil War [21]
Lieutenant Colonel William C. Lee, a staff officer for the Chief of Infantry, recommended that the test platoon be moved to the Safe Parachute Company at Hightstown, NJ and train using parachute drop towers from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Eighteen days after forming, the platoon was moved to New Jersey and trained for one week on the 250 ...