- SURNAME
Wintz
- FORENAME
Richard Anthony
- UNIT
2nd Ranger Battalion (Company F)
- RANK
1st Lieutenant
- NUMBER
0-463883
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Europe
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 22.03.1917, Wynot, Nebraska, USA
father Anthony J. Wintz (1893-1950)
mother Helen Dorothy (nee Engelhaupt) Wintz (1913-1995)
1942 graduated Creighton University
employed by Harman Johnson Funeral Home
16.10.1940 draft card Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
1942 married Katherine (nee Mack) Abts (1909-2009)
30.12.1945 discharged
postwar owned and operated Wintz Funeral Home
died 10.02.1981 (Aged 63), Hartington, Nebraska
Saint Michaels Cemetery, Hartington, Nebraska, USA
CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Richard A. Wintz (ASN: 0-463883), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 2d Ranger Infantry Battalion, V Corps, in action on the coast of France on 6 June 1944.
WEB LINKS:
http://rangerroster.org/SearchDetails.asp?ID=3110https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/90078
FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120197888/richard-a-wintz
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