USMA Class of 1923. Cullum No. 6972.
He was the son of Eben E. Winslow and Ann Goodwin Winslow.
On Friday, October 5, 1934, he married Marcia Comes at the home of her mother, Mrs. John T. Comes in the Pennsylvania Apartments in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
They were the parents of two children.
William Randolph Winslow graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1923. He then attended Engineer School and was assigned to the 3d Engineers in Hawaii. He earned a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of California and was assigned to Engineering Districts. General Lucius D. Clay wrote, I first really got to know Willy Window when we were stationed together in Pittsburgh. I quickly found him a highly competent engineer, but it took longer to find out what a generous, loyal friend he was behind an outwardly diffident manner. An avid seeker of knowledge, and a connoisseur of the good life, he was to those to whom he gave of his affection a good friend and companion.
His ancestor, John Ancrum Winslow, commanded the Kearsarge when she sank the Alabama and his father. General Eben E. Winslow, graduated number one in the Class of 1889. His father was assistant to the chief of engineers during World War I and designed and built the fortifications at Diamond Head in Hawaii. His mother, Anne Goodwin Winslow, was a successful novelist and poet and his wife, Marcella Comes, a native of Pittsburgh was a portrait painter of civilian and Army celebrities. He was resident engineer on the Target Dam Project. After an assignment with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War, he attended the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, Kansas. From 1933 to 1934 he was assigned to the United States Engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was then assigned to the Combat Engineers as a field soldier. The Combat Engineer Regiment received many commendations and was stationed in Sudbury, England in June 1943. His fellow officers called him Uncle Willy. His Adjutant wrote the following to his wife: thoughtful but expected and got the best, stable and brilliant with always new ideas, vast store of knowledge but not in ivory tower, talked in simple language to us but at home with the top brass and civilians.
After he left the regiment he was assigned to the Engineer VIII Corps with General Troy Middleton. He took part in the invasion of France, the capture of Brest and Cherbourg and was in the breakthrough from Constances to Avranche. In February 1945 he contracted pneumonia in Luxembourg. He died on February 24, 1945 while serving with the Ninth Army. His decorations included the Bronze Star Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre from Luxembourg and France, Legion of Honor, France, and Croix de Guerre with Palm from Belgium. Survivors included his wife, Marcella Comes Winslow; one daughter, Mrs. John (Mary R.) Poole and one son, John Randolph Winslow, all of the District of Columbia; his mother Mrs. Eben Winslow of Raleigh, Tennessee and one sister, Mrs. Winslow Chapman, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources: The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, March 13, 1945 and United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
He was the son of Eben E. Winslow and Ann Goodwin Winslow.
On Friday, October 5, 1934, he married Marcia Comes at the home of her mother, Mrs. John T. Comes in the Pennsylvania Apartments in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
They were the parents of two children.
William Randolph Winslow graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1923. He then attended Engineer School and was assigned to the 3d Engineers in Hawaii. He earned a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of California and was assigned to Engineering Districts. General Lucius D. Clay wrote, I first really got to know Willy Window when we were stationed together in Pittsburgh. I quickly found him a highly competent engineer, but it took longer to find out what a generous, loyal friend he was behind an outwardly diffident manner. An avid seeker of knowledge, and a connoisseur of the good life, he was to those to whom he gave of his affection a good friend and companion.
His ancestor, John Ancrum Winslow, commanded the Kearsarge when she sank the Alabama and his father. General Eben E. Winslow, graduated number one in the Class of 1889. His father was assistant to the chief of engineers during World War I and designed and built the fortifications at Diamond Head in Hawaii. His mother, Anne Goodwin Winslow, was a successful novelist and poet and his wife, Marcella Comes, a native of Pittsburgh was a portrait painter of civilian and Army celebrities. He was resident engineer on the Target Dam Project. After an assignment with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War, he attended the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, Kansas. From 1933 to 1934 he was assigned to the United States Engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was then assigned to the Combat Engineers as a field soldier. The Combat Engineer Regiment received many commendations and was stationed in Sudbury, England in June 1943. His fellow officers called him Uncle Willy. His Adjutant wrote the following to his wife: thoughtful but expected and got the best, stable and brilliant with always new ideas, vast store of knowledge but not in ivory tower, talked in simple language to us but at home with the top brass and civilians.
After he left the regiment he was assigned to the Engineer VIII Corps with General Troy Middleton. He took part in the invasion of France, the capture of Brest and Cherbourg and was in the breakthrough from Constances to Avranche. In February 1945 he contracted pneumonia in Luxembourg. He died on February 24, 1945 while serving with the Ninth Army. His decorations included the Bronze Star Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre from Luxembourg and France, Legion of Honor, France, and Croix de Guerre with Palm from Belgium. Survivors included his wife, Marcella Comes Winslow; one daughter, Mrs. John (Mary R.) Poole and one son, John Randolph Winslow, all of the District of Columbia; his mother Mrs. Eben Winslow of Raleigh, Tennessee and one sister, Mrs. Winslow Chapman, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources: The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, March 13, 1945 and United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
USMA Class of 1923. Cullum No. 6972.
He was the son of Eben E. Winslow and Ann Goodwin Winslow.
On Friday, October 5, 1934, he married Marcia Comes at the home of her mother, Mrs. John T. Comes in the Pennsylvania Apartments in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
They were the parents of two children.
William Randolph Winslow graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1923. He then attended Engineer School and was assigned to the 3d Engineers in Hawaii. He earned a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of California and was assigned to Engineering Districts. General Lucius D. Clay wrote, I first really got to know Willy Window when we were stationed together in Pittsburgh. I quickly found him a highly competent engineer, but it took longer to find out what a generous, loyal friend he was behind an outwardly diffident manner. An avid seeker of knowledge, and a connoisseur of the good life, he was to those to whom he gave of his affection a good friend and companion.
His ancestor, John Ancrum Winslow, commanded the Kearsarge when she sank the Alabama and his father. General Eben E. Winslow, graduated number one in the Class of 1889. His father was assistant to the chief of engineers during World War I and designed and built the fortifications at Diamond Head in Hawaii. His mother, Anne Goodwin Winslow, was a successful novelist and poet and his wife, Marcella Comes, a native of Pittsburgh was a portrait painter of civilian and Army celebrities. He was resident engineer on the Target Dam Project. After an assignment with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War, he attended the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, Kansas. From 1933 to 1934 he was assigned to the United States Engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was then assigned to the Combat Engineers as a field soldier. The Combat Engineer Regiment received many commendations and was stationed in Sudbury, England in June 1943. His fellow officers called him Uncle Willy. His Adjutant wrote the following to his wife: thoughtful but expected and got the best, stable and brilliant with always new ideas, vast store of knowledge but not in ivory tower, talked in simple language to us but at home with the top brass and civilians.
After he left the regiment he was assigned to the Engineer VIII Corps with General Troy Middleton. He took part in the invasion of France, the capture of Brest and Cherbourg and was in the breakthrough from Constances to Avranche. In February 1945 he contracted pneumonia in Luxembourg. He died on February 24, 1945 while serving with the Ninth Army. His decorations included the Bronze Star Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre from Luxembourg and France, Legion of Honor, France, and Croix de Guerre with Palm from Belgium. Survivors included his wife, Marcella Comes Winslow; one daughter, Mrs. John (Mary R.) Poole and one son, John Randolph Winslow, all of the District of Columbia; his mother Mrs. Eben Winslow of Raleigh, Tennessee and one sister, Mrs. Winslow Chapman, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources: The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, March 13, 1945 and United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
He was the son of Eben E. Winslow and Ann Goodwin Winslow.
On Friday, October 5, 1934, he married Marcia Comes at the home of her mother, Mrs. John T. Comes in the Pennsylvania Apartments in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
They were the parents of two children.
William Randolph Winslow graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1923. He then attended Engineer School and was assigned to the 3d Engineers in Hawaii. He earned a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of California and was assigned to Engineering Districts. General Lucius D. Clay wrote, I first really got to know Willy Window when we were stationed together in Pittsburgh. I quickly found him a highly competent engineer, but it took longer to find out what a generous, loyal friend he was behind an outwardly diffident manner. An avid seeker of knowledge, and a connoisseur of the good life, he was to those to whom he gave of his affection a good friend and companion.
His ancestor, John Ancrum Winslow, commanded the Kearsarge when she sank the Alabama and his father. General Eben E. Winslow, graduated number one in the Class of 1889. His father was assistant to the chief of engineers during World War I and designed and built the fortifications at Diamond Head in Hawaii. His mother, Anne Goodwin Winslow, was a successful novelist and poet and his wife, Marcella Comes, a native of Pittsburgh was a portrait painter of civilian and Army celebrities. He was resident engineer on the Target Dam Project. After an assignment with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War, he attended the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, Kansas. From 1933 to 1934 he was assigned to the United States Engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was then assigned to the Combat Engineers as a field soldier. The Combat Engineer Regiment received many commendations and was stationed in Sudbury, England in June 1943. His fellow officers called him Uncle Willy. His Adjutant wrote the following to his wife: thoughtful but expected and got the best, stable and brilliant with always new ideas, vast store of knowledge but not in ivory tower, talked in simple language to us but at home with the top brass and civilians.
After he left the regiment he was assigned to the Engineer VIII Corps with General Troy Middleton. He took part in the invasion of France, the capture of Brest and Cherbourg and was in the breakthrough from Constances to Avranche. In February 1945 he contracted pneumonia in Luxembourg. He died on February 24, 1945 while serving with the Ninth Army. His decorations included the Bronze Star Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre from Luxembourg and France, Legion of Honor, France, and Croix de Guerre with Palm from Belgium. Survivors included his wife, Marcella Comes Winslow; one daughter, Mrs. John (Mary R.) Poole and one son, John Randolph Winslow, all of the District of Columbia; his mother Mrs. Eben Winslow of Raleigh, Tennessee and one sister, Mrs. Winslow Chapman, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources: The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, March 13, 1945 and United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
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William
Randolph
Winslow
Tennessee
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WW I & II
Nov 19 1901
Feb 24 1945
DSM BSM
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Re-interred on April 14, 1949.
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