Summary of Dick Winters & Cole C. Kingseed's Beyond Band of Brothers

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#1 The dream of every soldier is to find peace, but it is far easier to find quiet than it is to find peace. Peace must come from within yourself.

#2 I was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania. My family moved to Ephrata when I was young, and then to Lancaster when I was eight years old. I was scared to go to school, but I eventually adjusted to my changing environment.

#3 I graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937, and matriculated to Franklin Marshall College, where I studied harder than I had ever studied in high school. I graduated tops in the business school and earned a bachelor’s degree in science and economics in 1941.

#4 The American army was totally unprepared for the war that it was about to embark on. The six-day week gave way to a seven-day workweek, which gave me the opportunity to observe some of the officers more closely. Most of the officers had come directly from the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669376170

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The dream of every soldier is to find peace, but it is far easier to find quiet than it is to find peace. Peace must come from within yourself.

#2

I was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania. My family moved to Ephrata when I was young, and then to Lancaster when I was eight years old. I was scared to go to school, but I eventually adjusted to my changing environment.

#3

I graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937, and matriculated to Franklin Marshall College, where I studied harder than I had ever studied in high school. I graduated tops in the business school and earned a bachelor’s degree in science and economics in 1941.

#4

The American army was totally unprepared for the war that it was about to embark on. The six-day week gave way to a seven-day workweek, which gave me the opportunity to observe some of the officers more closely. Most of the officers had come directly from the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

#5

I was selected to be an officer candidate, and I was sent to Fort Benning in Georgia to attend the preparatory course. I was very fortunate to be selected, as most commanders were picking noncommissioned officers who had considerably more experience than I did.

#6

I had always taken my parents’ advice, but this time I was determined to trust my own judgment. The more I looked at the paratroopers, the more I was inclined to join them as soon as I graduated from OCS.

#7

OCS was a thirteen-week marathon in the Georgia swamps, and I was not sorry to be finished with it. I had been thinking about lugs, cams, operating rods, gas-operated, and recoil-operated firing mechanisms for the entire course.

#8

My overall impression of the course was that it had been fairly easy. I had enjoyed the experience, and I was now a commissioned officer. However, I was still extremely despondent about where I would be sent next.

#9

I was honorably discharged from the US Army at the convenience of the government in order to accept a formal commission as a second lieutenant. I was then assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, at Camp Toombs, Georgia. I hated to leave Camp Croft, but I had no choice.

#10

I was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which was originally known as Camp Toombs. The 506th was the first regiment to train civilian recruits into an elite airborne unit. Sink was the commanding officer, and