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Winnix moments that make me feral part 15/?

I really love the parallel and progression in these shots; the two of them drifting closer until they're side by side.

#OMG #OMG！ #winnix #so in love

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Pick up your Nixon pin today after you vote for Lewis Nixon III!

For every future round you vote for Nixon you'll get a different pin!

This is round 3 of the polls. All other polls in this round can be found here.

#band of brothers #hbo war #lewis nixon #round 3 #I vote Lewis Nixon #pin collection

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It's my own piss, for Chrissake!

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Untitled (Feb 1982)

#Help that boy #ron livingston #poetry

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My new carpet. It’s just perfect🥲

#Lewis Nixon #daschund #carpet #cute things #also Ron Livingston’s YouTube channel called Livingstown

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#winnix #ep5 #parrot winnix #Instagram

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Re How many times Dick mentioned Nix in his memoir.

#hahahah #dick winters #lewis nixon #Dick’s love to Lew is silly and pure

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better-quality version of these two photos

#ron livingston #band of brothers #lewis nixon #bob bts #baby boy

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This is the very bizarre thing I've been thinking about. Not only did they ride the train together to report to Toccoa, but they also ended up in the same company and the same platoon. They were in the same dorm too? How many of your classmates from OCS would experience such a low probability? I can't help but wonder if Nix pulled some strings to keep them together. What does that imply?

I must add something else: It is quite likely that it was Lew who proposed that they join the paratroopers. Setting aside Lew's vision and chivalric spirit, the original screenplay for Austria’s portrayal of Winters began like this: "It’s been three years since Lewis Nixon CONVINCED me to join the paratroopers." (This was also the intended opening for the entire TV series, which was originally designed in a reverse sequence.)  

Okay, why would the screenwriters write it this way? We always tend to think it should have been Winters inviting Nixon to join the paratrooper unit, but why do the screenwriters say it was Nixon who convinced Winters?

Probably because they knew it to be true—perhaps that's exactly how Winters told them! Remember the bacon sandwich? That wasn't made up on the spot; that came from the screenwriters calling Winters to ask what Nixon liked to eat at HQ, and Dick said, “Oh, a bacon sandwich!”

That’s how they scripted it.

Kind of fascinated by this little section in one of Dick’s books:

Our OCS class graduated on July 2, 1942 […] Following lunch at the officers club, we were free to go our own way, though few of us had actual assignments. Nixon was assigned duty at Fort Ord, California, and attached to the military police unit on post. With no immediate openings in the paratroopers, I returned to Camp Croft to train another contingent that had recently arrived. As an officer I didn’t last long at Croft: about five weeks to be exact, before receiving orders to report to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, at Camp Toombs, Georgia […] Following a brief leave, I arrived in Toccoa in mid-August. Disembarking from the Southern Railway train adjacent to the Toccoa Coffin Factory, Lewis Nixon and I were directed to board an army truck for “Camp Toombs” - Richard Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (2006)

Camp Croft is in South Carolina and Fort Ord is in California. I don’t know much about the USA rail system, or how involved the army would have been in coordinating their travel, but regardless of whether Dick was travelling from South Carolina or wherever he was on leave - how likely is it that they’d end up on the exact same train into Toccoa? Maybe something they’d either planned themselves, or they’d departed from the same place (maybe Nix had leave too?)- or a coincidental train/station reunion after five weeks apart? Who knows, but very sweet that he makes a point of highlighting that the two of them (and only the two of them?) arrived together anyway.

#Let's decide it's a new canon: Nix convinced Dick to join the paratroopers #winnix #bob #canon #script #lewis nixon #dick winters

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That detail I caught during the 600th time rewatching: when they both say bye to Jimmy Fallon, they're like perfectly synced, right? Nix drops a 'thanks' while Dick pats the car. It's as if they're just one person split into two bodies—Nix runs the brain and the words, and Dick's all about the moves. Yeah, they're literally one soul, and this is just one of the million little things they nail together in this universe.

#winnix #band of brothers #my gif #my post

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Dick: People keep calling Nix a black cat.

Dick: He is not.

Dick: He is a raccoon that has been too socialized by people and now cannot be released back into the wild.

#Now that’s a fancon? #ok I’ll take it #Lewis Nixon #raccoon

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Lewis Nixon III you will always be babygirl to me

#lewis nixon #band of brothers #bob fanart #our baby boy

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You see the three musketeers sit around the table here shooting the bull, so while it rolls on I'll see if I can make any sense out of this. The three are Irishmen-one Capt. Nixon, and Lt. Welsh and last of all the Major. Now Capt. Nixon is the biggest drunk I've ever seen, known, or hope to see. He's worth a small fortune, never'll have to work a lick in his life, but absolutely the most reliable man I've ever known. Welsh is as bullheaded as you'd expect an Irishman to be.

—May 16, 1945, Letter to DeEtta

At the present time we're (Nixon and I) ribbing Lt. Welsh about marrying an Irish girl by the name of Kitty Grogan. He hopes to be married inside of four months. We're carefully explaining that some 4F will grab her off before that. If he does manage to get married, we promise to steal the bride for the balance of his leave unless he hires us to protect him from others who may have the same intentions. Price is 1 qt. of scotch for Nixon and 1 qt. of ice cream for myself. He doesn't take us seriously.

—May 30, 1945, Letter to DeEtta

I've mentioned Capt. Nixon I believe, of Nixon, N.J. [W]ell I've got him writing his first letter since last Nov. to his wife. Quite a guy, he's having one hell of a time getting organized and down to work. Claims he hasn't anything to say to her, just to his dog. He has a baby boy that he's never seen, but he won't talk about his son, it's always his dog. Knowing you, why I know you could spend an enjoyable two or three hours talking about how awful he is-if you knew him. However I'll tell you he's idealistic. I've known him three years and lived and slept aside and fought with him for two. This guy loves one thing right at this stage of life: a bottle of spirits or a fight. He's OK in a fight, but Jesus, outside of that he's absolutely the most undependable man you'd ever want to find.

Since we've been overseas he's only run around with one girl. An English girl and she was anything but beautiful. However she was a good listener and companion. In fact I am not too sure but this guy might end up staying over here in England. Ah yes, things are really snafu-and don't ask me what that means.

Now here we have Welsh & Nixon mixing Vodka, rum & vermouth-oh boy it won't be long now.

June 2, 1945, Letter to DeEtta

(Writing about the job offer at Nixon Nitration Works) “I don't count on a thing until I have it," Dick confessed, "but it sounds good."

September 2,  1945, Letter to DeEtta

Do you know what this new regimental C.O. has gone and done? Declared me essential. Why? Well you know all those nice things one can say at a time like that. Me, with 100 points as of V-E Day, and about the only officer in the regiment who has enough points to get out, and who doesn't want any part of the army, stuck until the division goes home. Which won't be this year. Boy, do you smell smoke? Don't worry, it's just me.

Capt. Nixon left this week, which makes everything just dandy. I am about as lonesome as a lovesick swab who married a Wave on an eight hour pass.

September 16, 1945, Letter to DeEtta

From Hang Tough: The WWII Letters and Artifacts of Major Dick Winters

#the way he talked about Nix is like a girl who had never been in love before #he spent most of his time with Nix and other time writing about Nix #to his potential girlfriend #poor DeEtta #winnix

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That look™ - The Last Patrol

#eyebrow worship #lewis nixon #ron livingston

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Although we all agree that Lewis Nixon is a cat man, Ron Livingston is such a puppy.

#ron livingston #bob cast #lewis nixon #eyebrow worship #random

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So in Dick’s memoir, he wrote “I have a picture of Nixon with his stash of liquor next to his bed as he awoke on VE-Day as proof that he did a good job in distributing the liquor.”

So does this mean this famous photo is physically in Dick’s possession and later he presumably shown/gave a copy to Ambrose? Like he kept it all these years?

Also, in the memoir, Dick asked Nix to sober up before he shown him Goering’s wine collection.

#remember this photo is taken by Dick Winters himself #great photography Dick #winnix #real winnix