Biography
William Train was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. Orphaned when he was 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1926 and retired 41 years later as a three-star general.
In 1927, then-Private Train placed first among Army enlisted men competing for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1931 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant.
In 1933, one his first posts was second-in-command at Camp Roosevelt, the first Civilian Conservation Corps camp established in the George Washington National Forest in central Virginia.
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