Talk:Lewis Nixon (U.S. Army officer)

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According to Dick Winters in Beyond Band of Brothers : The war memoirs of Major Dick Winters , Major Dick Winters (with Cole C. Kingseed), Berkley Hardcover, 2006. ISBN 0425208133, Nixon graduated from MIT, not Yale.

Actually, it doesn't state that he graduated from either school, just that he attended both of them. When Nixon enlisted in 1941, he had two years of college. Whether or not he eventually graduated from either one is not clear. After the war, he lived in Princeton, NJ, so he might have attended Princeton, too. That's just a wild guess, though.

In Band of Brothers it stated he was demoted down from regiment to battalion. What I'm not sure of is if he stayed an intelligence officer. The source of my confusion is that Winters (in the show) said he's been demoted to S-3, which is impossible since S-3 (operations) is a job usually held by a Major (Nixon was a Capt). It may be an error in the script, or maybe back then staff offices had different designations.

FYI:

• J/G/S-1 Administration (personnel, adjutant)
• J/G/S-2 Intelligence
• J/G/S-3 Operations (plans, operations, training)
• J/G/S-4 Logistics (supply)
• J/G/S-5 Civil Affairs (public affairs)
• J/G/S-6 Communications
• J/G/S-7 Joint Operations
• J/G/S-8 Resource Management

J=Joint Staff (DoD); G=General Staff; S=Staff

Jigen III 02:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Couple of things. I'm not necessarily certain that it was an actual demotion, as there didn't seem to be any loss of rank or privileges. First, in my experience, Battalion S-3 is a pretty heavy job (3rd in line of command for the Btn), and you wouldn't give it to a screw-up. Second, it is, as stated above, an O-4 position generally, and though it was common for officers in WWII to serve in billets above their pay grade, that's not consistent with moving an underachiever out of trouble. My take from watching Band of Brothers is that the "demotion" was more of a wry or ironic statement. If we are trying to be biographical it seems like we would need to give the guy a fair shake and not take too much out of context. I fully accept that my interpretation may be incorrect in this matter. --tom (talk) 12:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

This page is nothing but a rehash from info from Band of Brothers. Is there nothing more to add? JD79 03:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This is nothing more than the bio of the character of Lewis Nixon from Band of Brothers rather than the actual real bio of Lewis Nixon. --† Ðy§ep§ion † ^{Speak your mind} 23:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

-- The first paragraph under "after the war" is almost a direct quote from Band of Brothers. It should either be cited or changed. I think the language "everything fell into place" is ambiguous and subjective. The language of this paragraph should probably be altered. (CNB)

[edit] Date of birth/death

Searching the Social Security Death Index, the only Lewis Nixon who died in 1996 had the following statistics: Born: June 8, 1913 died February (no day specified) 1996, social security number 248-20-0106. Death certificate issued in Detroit, Wayne, MI. I didn't just want to add this info to the main article without some other corroboration of the facts. --Fxer 07:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I added the contradition thing because first it states that the 95 date is false, but then, on the lfeft, 1995 is stated as the year of death. Which one is correct?--85.49.234.93 22:57, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the death date, and removed your contradiction link. Thanks for spotting it. 65.95.232.95 01:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Lewis Nixon died on January 11, 1995. That is an absolute fact; I don't know where the 1996 date came from. It has now been corrected.

[edit] Winters who???

"Nixon and Winters were put through basic training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia and eventually trained at many locations throughout the U.S. and England for the invasion of France."

Who is this Winters you speak of? Winters isn't introduced until the next section. Who Winters is needs to be explained.

Richard D Winters —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.45.66.201 (talk) 17:42, 18 September 2007 (UTC)