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United States Army general

William Frew Train II (January 23, 1908 – November 27, 2006) was a United States Army lieutenant general and veteran of World War II and the Korean War.

William Train was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. Orphaned when he was 17, he enlisted in the United States Army as a private in 1926 and retired 41 years later as a three star general.

In 1927, 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 of 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.

Shortly after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Train was summoned to the War Department General Staff to serve in the newly built Pentagon helping to organize the war effort and earning the Legion of Merit. Later during World War II, Train served in the Italian campaign in 1943 for several months and then, in October 1944, he joined the 28th Infantry Division fighting on the Siegfried Line. The Siegfried Line was the defensive barrier at the German border to which the German army had retreated in the summer and fall of 1944 after the American and British invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944. In trying to break through the Siegfried Line in November 1944, Train's division was stopped by fierce German resistance during the Battle of Huertgen Forest, the bloodiest battle of the war in Europe on the American side. After suffering devastating losses, the 28th Division was moved to a quiet sector of the front line in northern Luxemburg and southern Belgium. This placed them directly in the path of the massive German surprise attack in the Battle of the Bulge, launched on December 16, 1944. Lieutenant Colonel Train was Assistant Regimental Commander of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division. His regiment held its position for the first two days of the attack against overwhelming odds and then participated in the defense of St. Vith in southern Belgium, a key road junction. These defensive actions seriously disrupted the northern sector of the German attack, which ground to a halt on December 26. Two days earlier, on December 24, Train's regiment—which had become surrounded by the German forces—was able to safely withdraw to the new American lines with the rest of the St. Vith defenders. Train was awarded the Silver Star for his leadership and bravery during the battle. He also received two Bronze Star Medals for his World War II service.

Train served in Korea in 1950 and 1951 during the intense fighting of the first year of that war. As plans officer for the Eighth United States Army, he was responsible for planning five campaigns, beginning with the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter. Train was awarded his second Legion of Merit for his Korean War service. Train and his wife had settled in San Mateo, California after his retirement. His son had been buried at the West Point Cemetery and Train's ashes were interred next to his son on March 29, 2007.