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Lewis Nixon III (September 30, 1918 – January 11, 1995) [1] was a United States Army officer who, during World War II, served at the company, battalion, and regimental level with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Nixon was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Ron Livingston.
He has also appeared in HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Captain Lewis Nixon III opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Damian Lewis. Livingston widened his variety of roles when he played a Hollywood agent in Adaptation (2002), a weaselly Ivy League upstart opposite Alec Baldwin 's casino boss in The Cooler (2003) and teachers in Winter ...
Captain Lewis Nixon (30 September 1918 – 11 January 1995) First Lieutenant Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (31 December 1921 – 25 February 2012) [27] First Lieutenant Edward David "Ed" Shames (13 June 1922 – 3 December 2021) [28] First Lieutenant Harry F. Welsh (27 September 1918 – 21 January 1995)
Captain Lewis Nixon, intelligence officer and close friend of Major Richard Winters. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Sobel, initial commanding officer. Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Speirs, took command of Company E during their assault on Foy, Belgium in January 1945. Final commanding officer. Went on to become commandant of Spandau Prison.
William J. Guarnere Sr. (April 28, 1923 – March 8, 2014) was a United States Army paratrooper who fought in World War II as a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division.
[3]: 8–9 There he became friends with Lewis Nixon, with whom he would serve throughout the war. [3]: 13 He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry after graduating from OCS on July 2, 1942. [3]: 13 During his officer training, Winters decided to join the parachute infantry, part of the U.S. Army's new airborne forces.
Lewis Nixon (April 7, 1861 – September 23, 1940) was a naval architect, shipbuilding executive, public servant, and political activist. He designed the United States' first modern battleships , and supervised the construction of its first modern submarines , all before his 40th birthday.
The first USS Annapolis (PG-10/IX-1) was a gunboat in the United States Navy.She was named for Annapolis, Maryland.. Annapolis was laid down on 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon and his shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch; launched on 23 December 1896; sponsored by Ms. Georgia Porter, the daughter of Captain Theodoris Porter; and commissioned at New York on ...