US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Polk, LA)

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I General Walter F. Winton, IL, was born in Nashw 3, 1917, son of the late Colonel tUS. d Mrs. Walter F. Winton. A 1940 graduate of the he has also attended the ge and the National War he 9th Infantry, 2nd In- fantry Division at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Brigadie ville, Tennessee, July 2 Armyt an United States Military Academy, Command and General Staff Colle College. He was first assigned to t In August 1942 he was reassigned to lst Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, as executive officer. Assuming command of the lst Battalion in early July 1943, General Winton saw his hrst combat action in the invasion of Sicily on July 10 when he jumped into action, was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. During the 82nd1s push up the west coast of Sicily he earned two Bronze Star Medals. His unit then began preparations for the invasion of Italy behind the Salerno beachhead. Following the jump at Salerno he commanded a battalion in actions finally reaching the Volturno River during the Hmud and mulestt days of the early Italian campaign, then was pulled off the line for the move to England and preparation for the Normandy in- vasion. General Winton participated in the pre-H hour airborne invasion of Normandy, participated in the Northern France campaign, made a glider landing into Holland when the 82nd Airborne Division participated as part of the 1st Allied Air- borne Army in that operation, was in the Battle of the Bulge, and then saw action in the final drive into Central Europe. After the Normandy landings he served as regimental execu- tive otiicer of the 505th, and in subsequent campaigns as In- telligence Officer tG-2i of the 82nd Airborne Division. For his service during World War II he was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm. General Winton has also been awarded the Combat Infantry- man Badge, Distinguished Unit Badge, Parachute Badge, Gen- w... M. mime t t 3 MMWWWHMW :- ' i ,4 t z; , t eral Staff Identification Badge, National Military Establisha ment Identification Badge, the French and Belgian Fourragere medals and the Dutch Lanyard. General Winton has nine American service medals. In 1946-47 he was on the staff of the United States Army representative to the United Nationseand earned the Army Commendation Medal for his service. He then went to Pan- ama for three years duty with the thce 0f the Directorate of Intelligence of the US. Caribbean Command. Upon com- pletion of this tour of duty in Panama, he was assigned to Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea in 1951 and in 1952 he served as Chief of Staff of the 24th Infantry Division in com- bat in Korea, earning the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster for Korean service. Returning to the U.S., General Winton was assigned to Headquarters, Department of the Army, as Assistant Secre- tary of the Army General Staff. He was later assigned as Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, Operations and Training tG-Si, Headquarters, Third Army. From 1959 until he arrived in Hawaii in July, 1963, General Winton was again at the Pentagon serving with the Ohice 0f the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. While in Hawaii he was assigned to Headquar- ters, US. Army Hawaii as Deputy Chief of Staff and then as commanding ohicer of the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division. General Winton has studied at Harvard University and has received a Masters Degree in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC. He is married to the former Miss Wilma Patricia Raymond of Seattle, Wash- ington, daughter of the late Colonel tUS. Armyi and Mrs Harold G. Raymond. They have two sons, Harold R. 22, whe graduated from the US. Military Academy in June 1964 and Walter M., 16. In July, 1964, General Winton was as: Slgned to the US. Army Training Center, Infantry, Fort Polk as Deputy Commanding General. , WALTER F. WINTON, JR. Brigadier General, U. S. Army Beauty Commanding General 12.2,. -...r

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