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Talbert: my crush on winters isn't obvious!

average Talbert letter:

“Dear “War” Brother,

I received your letter, and I can’t tell how much it meant to me. I should have written you but I would much rather talk to you."

“Well I will cut this off for now. You are the best friend I ever had and I only wish, we could have been on a different basis. You were my ideal, and motor in combat. The little Major we both know summed you up in two words “the most brave & courageous soldier he ever knew.”

“And you were the only person I could talk to. If I had only taken that furlough with you I would still be with you.”

“Polly” you mentioned she had nothing to do with it. I didn’t even call her in New York. She once told me that she knew if I had my choice of her or you I would take you. She was right.”

“Well you know now why I would follow you into hell. When I was with you I knew everything was absolutely under control.”

A devoted soldier and Buddy, Tab

P.S. Hurry home, tell Col. Chase the war is over. Ha!

you can find the whole letter right here btw!

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Thinking about that last post I’m sure modern Dick Winters would’ve had an insta and it would be 50% shirtless pics, 20% working out (shirt also optional) 15% motivational quotes, 10% nature pics and the rest would be Lewis Nixon. DeEtta would’ve had exactly one photo and it would be blurry as fuck.

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Dick met someone while he was sunbathing at O.C.S. and that person completely changed his mind on the "suicide outfit"

did i ever fully appreciate he can't he even tell his own story without mentioning nix from the very beginning? this man who was once a total stranger to him?

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More Nixon family stuff....

I think Biggest Brother got another name wrong or this was a form of witness protection. (I think it's just wrong as many of the spelling errors from the Ambrose transcripts also made it into this book).

Anyhow, Blanche Blaine-- Stanhope's former mistress, now personal secretary, now Dick Winter's friend. Except there is no Blanche Blaine in 1940s Middlesex County NJ, there is however an Olive S. Blaine. A widower, the Nixon Nitration Works Treasurer for 29 years, the Secretary for Stanhope Nixon's real estate company Old Mill Stream Co., and ALSO the other witness to Lewis Nixon's marriage to Irene Nixon. Olive Blaine went to New York City with Lew, Irene and Dick Winters to partake in Lewis's second marriage. So, who made her name Blanche? Alexander or Dick because naming Stanhope's lover after his daughter is weird.

Biggest Brother excerpt above. And below are a Deed with Olive acting as secretary/notary to Charles Shuster's Vice President of Old Mill Stream Co; Lewis's Nixon's marriage paperwork (the signature is correct the typewritten name is not) and an obituary with follow up legal notification and deed paperwork.

Olive passed away in 1949 leaving her estate to care for her mother and her sister Florence as a executrix. In 1951 Old Mill Stream Co President Stanhope Nixon is signing over a house in Highland Park, NJ to Florence. Sam Hoffman, fiend and lawyer of Stanhope, is also in most of these transaction on both sides.

Under the cut for those of you interested in the documentation:

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You know if this guy is described as handsome she's got to have dark hair and be close to 6', right?

RIGHT. Except his name isn't Rick? He's on the wrestling team. And he is studying economics like Dick and...JFC you can not make this up. If you aren't researching WW2 through an understanding of Dick Winter's taste in men you are missing out.

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Yeah, and Poland provoked HItler by not negotiating the return of the German city of Danzig, and persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland.

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Updates on Lewis Nixon's personal information.

Irene Nixon died Feb 2, 1969 in Princeton, NJ. (Source: New Jersey Death Index and Death Index Code)

Lewis Nixon and Grace Umezawa got married in Nevada March 19, 1969. (Source Clark County, Nevada)

Lewis Nixon sold his house in Princeton, with Irene Nixon Estate on deed, May 8, 1969. (Scource: Mercer Co. New Jersey)

(And please do not repost to reddit or other sites, if I wanted the research there I'd put it there myself. This is preliminary research and in a few weeks I will have more to add.)

I honestly have not looked into this until this Stanhope and friends fiasco, but needed an idea when Nix got involved date wise. I've read the Hester Blue Boar update post a handful of times without it making an impact that Irene died in the 60's until the last time I read it. And I remembered I pulled that Princeton house deed info when looking for Nixon houses and noted the 'Estate' beside Irene's name, but tossed it in a folder for later.

Speculation ahead-----

After a year of stalking/researching this man and his family, I got a feel for him. Lewis Nixon III makes things happen. He doesn't have time for a wedding when he wants to get married. He's gone to the courthouse in NYC twice. Gotten divorced in Vegas once. New Jersey and California are not fast enough for him. So I looked in NYC first, then Las Vegas records and found him.

Next, Irene. Clearly from the customs paperwork we have Grace and Lew have been together for a while. He would not wait if he was divorced, he would have married her already. So, Irene. Considering the fast marriage, I felt pretty good he waited until Irene passed to get remarried and started manually going through the NJ Death Indexes in starting with the year he got remarried, and there she was.

Reference again his divorce from Kathy as he scratched out 'incompatible' and wrote in 'drunkeness' which goes in her favor since she is divorcing him. That legally covers Michael a little more as it puts Lew at fault for the marriage dissolution. (Even if Kathy's next husband was waiting over the state line) Which could have helped when he was suing Stanhope's estate for Michael's share.

My point?

Lewis Nixon is loyal, do not confuse that with faithful. He is loyal to those who have been good to him (Dick and Hester) and Irene was good to him. She was there for him during the war, through the death of his parents, was there when his sister killed herself. There when Dick left for Korea and more permanently- Pennsylvania. I feel he waited because he didn't want to hurt her, or her family who he has been apart of since WW2 and taken her away from; I feel she was probably sick and they knew it. He waits until she dies and then married Grace? I feel this one month window is a statement that he didn't divorce her. (again, please give me some time for the docs to work through this theory. But there is no waiting period on marriage in Nevada -even back then.) Once again, a demonstration of loyalty in my eyes.

We the have the case of Lew and Grace and her name as "Nixon" on the customs card in 1962. I don't know how to explain it. I do know that passengers wrote their own address on there as I recognize Lew's chaotic handwriting anywhere. Did they fill out their own forms? I imagine the customs folks wrote it off passports but I can't answer this. If I cycle through the entire planeload the handwriting changes. Could this have been a cover for going to the same address? It's 1962, people were being arrested for cohabitating twenty years earlier, I have no idea what the environment was at the time. The free and hippie sixties were the later half of the decade, early 60s are the back end of the McCarthy era and Jello Abominations. Could it be two people in love testing the waters, maybe filling out each other's cards? (examples below for handwriting comparison.) Feels like it. But the official records point to them being married in 1969 and that's all I got.

I realize this means Dick Winters was wrong about the date, and believe me, he's haunting my phone over saying that. I am trying to track sources for the 1956 marriage and most seem to be Dick's book. Even My Heritage had the date, but looking into it the information came from AI scraping of wikipedia. Wikipedia in turn -Winters & Kingseed. However I do feel he was right about Nix being in love with Grace and never having known that feeling before. Marriage was a civil union until her, then he married the love of his life. She was also close to 50 at the time and sure as hell didn't need a man as she was one hell of a lady, so she was in love with him and the fact he was married didn't matter.

Documents under the cut

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Amazing detective work! The case looks pretty solid! I'm wondering why in Lillian's obituary (1965) it says "Also surviving are…three sisters, Grace and Mrs M. Asakawa in California and Mrs David Arakawa of North Brunswick" by 1961 Grace and Lewis Nixon have been married. Why not saying ""Also surviving are…three sisters, Mrs Lewis Nixon in Princeton and Mrs M. Asakawa in California and Mrs David Arakawa of North Brunswick"? Too right in the nose?!

When I read in Grace's obituary: "Grace and Lewis often spent time with their nieces and nephews, teaching them cards and backgammon and playing for keeps over the children’s allowance money." I never expected that one of the children has the middle name "Stanhope"!

You know, when I read that Blanche Blaine, Dick’s favorite mistress employee at Nixon Nitration, once told him that "You don’t run around with women and you don’t drink. You just don’t fit in with the Nixon crowd.”-----Now look back what an understatement this is!

BTW, why was Stanhope so keen on Dorothy's sons? He sponsored John and Peter has "Stanhope" as his middle name, right? Why didn't Stanhope just dote on Lillian's sons? Is it possible that he was also having an affair with Dorothy?

Mrs. David M. Arakawa was Dorothy Umezama Arakawa, Grace Nixon's little sister. In 1952 Stanhope Nixon sponsored their son John for baptism in the Milltown church he went to with them. They also lived in Farrington Lake, Stanhope Nixon's neighborhood, David Arakawa lived on the other side of Farrington Lake on the north side.

From Grace's sister Lillian's Obit in 1965:

Stanhope's sponsorship:

He and Dorothy managed Riva Greenhouses together. According to father Kiyokichi Umezawa's obituary, he was a resident of Milltown as well.

The Greenhouses run by the Arawakwas (And Grace's parents may have been involved too as her Mom got a ticket for passing a school bus in 1956):

Grace mentions visiting her sister in New Jersey in this letter to Dick in 1983:

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Letter to Dick from Smokey Gordon from Gordon's File at USAHEC regarding New Orleans reunion and Lewis Nixon

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We are officially back in 1938 now

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Some more pictures of stanhope nixon that I haven’t seen posted before

These are from www.loc.gov

I also have a digitization request in at the Yale archives so I might be posting more soon

Also disclaimer I don’t condone any of the bad stuff he did I just think he was a dilf 🤷‍♀️

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Grace Nixon's letter to Dick Winters, 9 Feb. 1995

Dear Dick, This little card says very little of my deepest appreciation, affection, and gratitude for all you have done for me—for your thoughtfulness to even write Miguel about his grandfather, his great grandfather, etc. touched me greatly. You are and always have been all these years such a true friend in all respects. I do not know anyone whom Lewis respected more than you, Dick Winters. [...]—and again, thank you, Dick Winters. Much love, Grace

Quotes taken from: Dick Winters letter to Deetta Almon (April 20, 1945) | Dick Winters' eulogy for Lewis Nixon, January 1995 | Grace Nixon's letter to Dick Winters (February 9, 1995)

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Wait…Sobel’s court martial war with Dick started on Oct 30 1943. Was Nix around or was he away when Sobel was bullying Dick?

“Under the provisions of Article of War 104 appeal is requested on punishment rendered by Captain Herbert M. Sobel on Lt. Richard D. Winters for failure to inspect latrines on Oct. 30, 1943 at 0945 hrs.”

The argument settled only after Sink intervened on Nov 11 1934, transferred Winters out of Easy and made him battalion mess officer.

Imagine Nix being back from the intelligence school, taking one bite of the Sh*t on a Shingle and he knew something was off…it could never taste so bad unless it’s made by Dick Winters

Lewis Nixon on duty to Detached Service to American School Center Shrivenham. October 26 1943

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Dick's response to Buck's question about why he wasn't promoted to Captain of Easy. Not at all dismissing his suspicions that Nixon didn't like him. And of course blaming General Taylor.