Changes

Ichter was one of two sons of Harold Lester Ichter (1903-1993) and the former Harriet Ellen Tremayne in Nanticoke, a small [[coal]]-mining community in Berks County near Reading in southeastern [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=familysearch/> Harold Ichter was an employee of the [[United States Postal Service]] and the Pennsylvania [[National Guard]]; the family was hardly impacted by the [[Great Depression]] because of the father's two paychecks. With the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, the senior Ichter was sent to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]], to be an umpire for the war games at nearby [[United States Army]] camps. As a result of this move, the younger Ichter came into contact with Southern Baptists. He graduated a semester early in 1943 from Bolton High School in Alexandria.<ref name=familysearch/>  

Ichter was one of two sons of Harold Lester Ichter (1903-1993) and the former Harriet Ellen Tremayne in Nanticoke, a small [[coal]]-mining community in Berks County near Reading in southeastern [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=familysearch/> Harold Ichter was an employee of the [[United States Postal Service]] and the Pennsylvania [[National Guard]]; the family was hardly impacted by the [[Great Depression]] because of the father's two paychecks. With the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, the senior Ichter was sent to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]], to be an umpire for the war games at nearby [[United States Army]] camps. As a result of this move, the younger Ichter came into contact with Southern Baptists. He graduated a semester early in 1943 from Bolton High School in Alexandria.<ref name=familysearch/>  

He served from February 1944 to June 1946 as a corporal in [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]]'s Third Army infantry in [[Europe]]<ref name=familysearch>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/28101155|title=William Ichter - Oral History Project - World War II (1944-1946)|publisher=Familysearch.org|accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref> and participated in various [[music]]al groups with the Allied Army of Occupation. His book, ''Who Me, God?'' reflects in part on his military experiences.<ref name=bio/> Harold Ichter was mobilized as part of the 28th Infantry Division but failed his overseas physical because of [[arthritis]] and was instead sent to administer [[prisoner of war]] camps at Camp Livingston in Louisiana and other facilities in [[Texas]] and [[New Mexico]], while son Bill sailed overseas from Fort Dix, [[New Jersey]], and arrived in [[England]] on February 6, 1945, soon sent thereafter into Patton's army. After the war, he toured [[Rome]] as part of an Army choir and saw first-hand the devastation and rampant poverty of postwar [[Italy]].<ref name=familysearch/>

He served from February 1944 to June 1946 as a corporal in [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]]'s Third Army infantry in [[Europe]].<ref name=familysearch>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/28101155|title=William Ichter - Oral History Project - World War II (1944-1946)|publisher=Familysearch.org|accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref> aichter was one of the 160,000 Allied troops that landed at [[Normandy landing|Normandy]] in [[France]] on [[D-Day]]. He received a [[Bronze Star]] and the French Legion of Honor. He turned down a chance to become a sergeant so that he could instead participate in various [[music]]al groups with the Allied Army of Occupation.<ref>Will Phillips, "Local veteran joins world marking 75 years since D-Day," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 6, 2019, p. 1.</ref>

 

Ichter's book, ''Who Me, God?'' reflects in part on his military experiences.<ref name=bio/> Harold Ichter was mobilized as part of the 28th Infantry Division but failed his overseas physical because of [[arthritis]] and was instead sent to administer [[prisoner of war]] camps at Camp Livingston in Louisiana and other facilities in [[Texas]] and [[New Mexico]], while son Bill sailed overseas from Fort Dix, [[New Jersey]], and arrived in [[England]] on February 6, 1945, soon sent thereafter into Patton's army. After the war, he toured [[Rome]] as part of an Army choir and saw first-hand the devastation and rampant poverty of postwar [[Italy]].<ref name=familysearch/>

==Baptist clergyman==

==Baptist clergyman==