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heavyartilleryIt's very much Winters and Nixon-focused, but would probably be of use to the fandom generally for the war stuff.
Sources: This is based on a combination of newspaper reports, obituaries, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander, "Operations of the 101st Airborne Division in the Invasion of France" found on Archive.org, and Wikipedia. Where conflicting information has been found, we've tried to indicate it. I'm shitty at sourcing individual items, but if you want to know about any of them, please ask.
All corrections and additions welcome. Thank you tokunstarschloch (especially for Nixon family history) and scandalinbohemia for your contributions!
Pre-War Years:
21 January 1918: Richard D Winters is born in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
30 September 1918: Lewis Nixon III is born in New York City, New York.
March-May 1922: Fletcher Nixon is born and dies.
17 August 1923: Blanche Nixon is born in New Jersey.
1 March 1924: Nixon Nitration Works disaster begins. 20 people are killed, 15 hospitalized, 100 injured. 40 buildings are destroyed.
3 March 1924: Lewis Nixon I and Stanhope Nixon appear to an inquiry concerning the Nixon Nitration Works disaster.
May 1924: Nixon Nitration Works ordered to pay $12,000 to the widow of an employee fallen victim to the disaster.
~1926: Winters family moves to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
22 May 1926: Lewis Nixon III takes third place in model yacht regatta, aged 7, at Central Park in New York City, New York.
1929: Beatrice Winters is born and dies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1931: Ann Winters is born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
~1936: Lewis Nixon III finishes primary school in Santa Barbara, California.
1937: Richard D Winters finishes from Lancaster Boys High School.
15 June 1937: Sally Wood Nixon dies in Washington, DC.
~1937-38: Lewis Nixon III studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for two years. Following this, he takes a job at Nixon Nitration Works, possibly as a plant foreman.
1937-41: Richard D Winters studies at Franklin and Marshall college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
23 September 1940: Lewis Nixon I dies, aged 79, in Long Branch, New Jersey.
20 December 1940: Lewis Nixon III marries Katherine Page of Phoenix, Arizona.
1941:
14 January: Lewis Nixon III inducted into the US Army in Trenton, New Jersey, having been drafted.
June: Richard D Winters graduates Franklin & Marshall University, first in his class, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
25 August: Richard D Winters called up for service in the US Army (he'd enlisted on graduation, but had to wait for a spot).
September to 27 November: Richard D Winters trains at Camp Croft, South Carolina.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 23.
7 December: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour.
8 December: U.S. enters war.
December 1941-March 1942: Richard D Winters serves in training position at Camp Croft, SC.
1942:
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 24.
6 April: Richard D Winters ships out for Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, befriends Lewis Nixon III.
2 July: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III graduate from OCS.
July: Richard D Winters returns to Camp Croft as a training officer, Lewis Nixon III transfers to Fort Ord, CA, as an MP.
Mid-August: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III report to Camp Toccoa, Georgia, as part of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR. Winters is platoon leader of 2nd Platoon. Nixon is assistant platoon leader of 2nd Platoon.
September: Some members of the 506th PIR complete jump training. Richard D Winters is jump master on the first flight having won an athletic competition.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 24.
October: Lewis Nixon III is assigned the role of battalion S2 (this may have happened in May '43), Richard D Winters promoted to first lieutenant.
1-4 December: 2nd Battalion marches to Atlanta.
26 December: Final members of E Company complete jump training. Everyone gets a 10-day furlough.
1943:
~1943: Michael Nixon born to Lewis Nixon III and Katherine Page.
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 25.
February-May: 506th PIR attends field training in Camp Mackall, NC. 506th PIR is integrated into the 101st Airborne Division.
May: Richard D Winters officially made executive officer of Easy Company.
5-15 July: Field exercises based out of Sturgis, Kentucky.
Late July: 101st Airborne moves to Fort Bragg, NC.
22 August: 101st Airborne begins to move to Camp Shanks, NY, in preparation for deployment to England.
Early September: 101st departs from New York City onboard the S.S. Samaria.
15 September: 101st arrives in Liverpool, England and proceeds to Aldbourne for continued training.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 25.
30 October: Richard D Winters requests court martial over latrine inspection. Assigned to battalion mess.
11 November: Richard D Winters returns to Easy Company in as leader of First Platoon.
1944:
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 26.
Late February: Richard D Winters takes a week furlough and visits Scotland.
23 March: A fully-fledged dress rehearsal of the Normandy jump takes place in the Ramsbury area in front of President Eisenhower, PM Winston Curchill, and all the top brass.
Late March: Richard D Winters is given a $25 fine by order of General Taylor for "failure during a recent condition of simulated combat to require a man under my command to wear a helmet".
April: The Winters pay off the mortgage on their house.
31 May: 101st moved to Upottery, England.
4 June: 101st prepares to jump into Normandy. Stood down because of weather.
5 June: 101st loads into planes at 10pm.
6 June: D-Day. Easy Company takes guns at Brécourt. Richard D. Winters put in command of E Company.
7 June: E Company assaults Vierville.
8-10 June: E Company on regimental HQ guard duty at Angoville-au-Plain.
11 June: 506th PIR prepares to attack Carentan.
12 June: Attack on Carentan. Richard. D. Winters wounded in the ankle.
13 June: German counter attack against Carentan. E Richard D Winters ordered five days of bed rest. No action save for patrols.
20 June: 506th PIR moved back to the front line around Carentan, patrols, no combat.
28-30 June: 101st rotated back to bivouac area south of Charbourg.
1 July: Richard D. Winters promoted to captain and awarded Distinguished Service Cross for action on D-Day.
10 July: 101st moved to Utah Beach.
11-12 July: 101st ships back to Southhampton, England via LST's from Utah Beach.
23 July: Majdanek, first major death camp liberated, by the advancing Soviet Red Army.
17-19 August: 101st activated for drop near Chartres, France, which does not occur.
31 August-4 September: 101st activated for drop in Belgium, which does not occur.
10 September: 101st marshalled for Market Garden.
17 September: Daytime jump into Holland for Market Garden. 101st fails to take bridge over Whilhemina Canal before it's blown.
18 September: 506th PIR enters Eindhoven. Takes bridges over Dommel River.
19 September: E Company runs into resistance at Nuenen and is pushed back. Eindhoven bombed.
22 September: E Company trucked to Uden, cut off by German assault and surrounded, holds Uden for two days.
24 September: E Company relieved in Uden.
25 September: Night attack on Vechel in heavy rain, attack continues all day. Lewis Nixon III shot in the helmet.
26 September: E Company returns to Uden, having sustained 22 casualties during Market Garden.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 26.
2 October: 101st trucked through Nijmegen to the Island on the south bank of the Rhine. Second Battalion's HQ in Hemmen.
5 October: Richard D. Winters leads patrol into two companies of SS and defeats them.
8 or 9 October: Richard D. Winters assigned to Second Battalion staff as executive officer.
22-23 October: E Company assists in rescue of stranded British paratroopers from other side of Rhine.
Soon after: Second Battalion moves HQ to Schoonderlogt. Lewis Nixon III is moved from S2 to S3 around this time.
31 October: Moose Heyliger shot by friendly fire.
23 November: 101st rotated to Mourmelon-le-Grand, France.
Early December: Richard D Winters visits Paris on a 48-hour pass. Lewis Nixon III promoted to Regiment S3.
16 December: Hitler begins Ardennes offensive.
17 December (late): 101st alerted to attack.
18 December (afternoon): 101st leaves Mourmelon for Bastogne.
19 December (1am ish): 101st arrives at Bastogne.
19 December (morning): The 506th’s 1st Battalion sent to Noville to re-enforce 10th Armored, the other two battalions were ordered to act as reserves north of Bastogne.
19 December (night): The 101st’s division service area to the west of Bastogne raided, causing the loss of almost its entire medical company.
20 December: 2nd Battalion brought up to the line above Foy.
19-20 December: 1st & 3rd Battalions fight in Noville & Foy. 1st pulls out of Noville via Foy on the 20th, badly beaten.
21 December: Saint-Vith falls. All seven highways leading to Bastogne were cut by German forces by noon.
22 December: Nuts!
23 December: Skies clear allowing air support. P-47 Thunderbolts pound German targets. C-47 Skytrains drop supplies.
24 December (7pm): Luftwaffe bombers attack Bastogne.
25 December: Another big USAAF fire fight.
26 December (4pm): 4th Armored Division breaks through, lifting siege.
27 December: Supply lines into Bastogne re-established. 101st informed that they will take part in counter offensive, and told to hold position.
1945:
~1945: Stanhope and Doris Nixon divorce. Lewis Nixon III is divorced from Katherine Page, marries Irene from England.
1 January: Major Luftwaffe bombing, 2nd Battalion ordered to clear Bois Jacques.
2 January: 2nd Battalion advances through Bois Jacques above Foy.
3 January: Toye and Guarnere severely injured by artillery barrage. Heavy snow begins to fall.
8 January: Snow storm.
10 January: Heavy German artillery barrage.
12 January: E Company attacks and takes town of Foy. Ronald Speirs put in command of E Company.
13 January: 2nd Battalion advances on Noville, overnights in snow.
14 January: 2nd Battalion takes Noville with only light resistance.
16 January: 2nd Battalion takes Rachamps and Hardigny
17 January: 17th Airborne relieves 101st in Ardennes.
19 January: 506th PIR directed to Alsace to hold the line against Nordwind.
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 27.
22 January: 506th PIR arrives in Drulingen, France, and is placed in reserve.
24 January: 506th PIR moves to Wilkersheim.
27 January: Auschwitz death camp liberated by the Soviets.
29 January: 506th PIR takes over and holds villages of Pfaffenoffen and Niedermodern along Modar River.
4 February: 506th supplied with winter clothing.
5 February: 506th PIR moves into Haguenau, relieving the 313th IR.
15 February: New lieutenant from Fox Company killed on patrol across the river.
Prisoner patrol and fake patrol in here somewhere.
20 February: 3rd Battalion relieves 2nd Battalion on the line. 2nd placed in reserve. Richard D. Winters promoted to Major.
23 February: 101st Airborne alerted that it will be rotated back to Mourmelon-le-Grand.
26 February: 101st arrives in Mourmelon-le-Grand by train.
7 March: First Army makes a break out at Remagen.
8 or 10 March: Richard D. Winters promoted to commander of 2nd Battalion. Lewis Nixon III demoted from 506th PIR's S3 to 2nd Battalion's S3.
23-24 March: The 17th Airborne drop over the Rhine at Wesel as part of Operation Varsity. Lewis Nixon III goes as an observer and almost dies.
25 March: Lewis Nixon III returns to Mourmelon-le-Grand by special plane.
1 April: 101st moves into occupation duty in Germany (holding a line along the Rhine from Sturzelberg to Worringen) to help close the Ruhr Pocket. Mostly anchors a line of battle and does patrols.
11 April: Buchenwald death camp liberated by the Americans.
12 April: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.
15 April: Bergen-Belsen death camp liberated by the British.
18 April: Germany armies in the Ruhr surrender/Ruhr pocket crumbles.
22 April: 101st departs Ruhr for Bavaria.
27-28 April: Six labour/concentration camps near Landsberg/Buchloe liberated.
29 April: Dachau liberated by the Americans and Ravensbrück by the Soviets.
30 April: Hilter commits suicide in Berlin.
2 May: Fall of Berlin.
3 May: 101st stationed in Thalem.
5 May: 506th PIR arrives in Berchtesgaden.
7 May: German army agrees to surrender.
8 May: Victory in Europe Day. 506th PIR departs for Zell am See, Austria.
9 May: 506th PIR arrives in Zell am See, Austria. 2nd Battalion occupies Kaprun and Bruck.
26 May: Richard D Winters attempts to transfer to the 13th Airborne Division in order to ship out to the C.B.I. sooner, is denied.
29 May: Richard D Winters award Bronze Star.
28 June: Most 85-point vets ship back to the US. Some officers including Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III declared essential. Richard D Winters bumped back to 2nd Battalion XO.
30 July: 506th PIR departs Austria for quarters Joigny, France.
14 August: Japan surrenders.
August: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III take a 14-day furlough to England.
September: Lewis Nixon III returns stateside. (Possibly by plane on 2 September?)
20 September: Richard D Winters takes part in a demonstration parachute jump.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 27.
4-20 November: Richard D Winters ships back to the U.S., sailing from Marseilles to New York on the Wooster Victory.
25 or 29 November: Richard D Winters arrives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Post-War Years:
January 1946: Richard D Winters moves to New Brunswick, NJ, and begins job at Nixon Nitration.
21 January 1946: Richard D Winters turns 28.
22 January 1946: Richard D Winters officially discharged from the army.
30 July 1946: Richard N Winters dies of bleeding ulcers, aged 54, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
16 May 1948: Richard D Winters marries Ethel Estoppey.
24 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon dies, aged 54, in San Francisco, California
25 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon's funeral.
28 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon's estate settled, being divided between her children and held in trust until Blanche Nixon turns 30.
1949: Richard T Winters born in New Brunswick, NJ.
~Late 1951: Stanhope Nixon orders Richard D Winters to lay off a number of plant staff due to downsizing. Pulls an unloaded gun on Winters. Winters resolves to quit Nixon Nitration.
3 January 1952: Richard D Winters recalled to military service. Assigned to Fort Dix, NJ, as a training officer.
22 September 1952: Richard D Winters released from military service. Later takes job at Johnson & Johnson plant in New Brunswick, NJ.
August 1953: Lewis Nixon III and Blanche Nixon inherit their mother's estate, on Blanche's 30th birthday.
1954: Jill Winters born in New Brunswick, NJ. The citizens of Middlesex County changed the town of Nixon to Edison by referendum.
1955: Richard D Winters moves back to Pennsylvania, takes job with Whitmore Labs in Lebanon, PA.
4 November 1955: Blanche Nixon dies by suicide, aged 32, in San Francisco, California. Lewis Nixon III and Irene Nixon are present in the house. Irene Nixon finds the body.
Late 1955/early 1956: Lewis Nixon III and Irene Nixon divorce.
1956: Lewis Nixon III marries Grace Umezawa in Los Angeles, California
12 January 1958: Stanhope Nixon dies, aged 63, in New Brunswick, New Jersey
19 January 1962: Stanhope Nixon’s estate is decided.
7 February 1970: Edith Winters dies, aged 73, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
1971: Richard D Winters forms his own company, R.D. Winters Supply Company Inc, distributing animal feed products to feed mills.
1980: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III attend their first Easy Company reunion in Nashville, TN.
6 June 1992: Stephen Ambrose publishes Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Lewis Nixon III refused to be interviewed.
11 January 1995: Lewis Nixon III dies of complications of diabetes, aged 76, in Los Angeles, California
1996: Richard D Winters retires.
9 September 2001: HBO’s Band of Brothers airs its first episode
2 January 2011: Richard D Winters dies, suffering from Parkinson’s, aged 92, in Hershey, Pennsylvania
11 April 2012: Ethel Winters dies, aged 89, in Hershey, Pennsylvania
16 January 2016: Grace Nixon dies, aged 94, in Sherman Oaks, California.
Sources: This is based on a combination of newspaper reports, obituaries, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander, "Operations of the 101st Airborne Division in the Invasion of France" found on Archive.org, and Wikipedia. Where conflicting information has been found, we've tried to indicate it. I'm shitty at sourcing individual items, but if you want to know about any of them, please ask.
All corrections and additions welcome. Thank you to
kunstarschloch (especially for Nixon family history) and scandalinbohemia for your contributions!Pre-War Years:
21 January 1918: Richard D Winters is born in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
30 September 1918: Lewis Nixon III is born in New York City, New York.
March-May 1922: Fletcher Nixon is born and dies.
17 August 1923: Blanche Nixon is born in New Jersey.
1 March 1924: Nixon Nitration Works disaster begins. 20 people are killed, 15 hospitalized, 100 injured. 40 buildings are destroyed.
3 March 1924: Lewis Nixon I and Stanhope Nixon appear to an inquiry concerning the Nixon Nitration Works disaster.
May 1924: Nixon Nitration Works ordered to pay $12,000 to the widow of an employee fallen victim to the disaster.
~1926: Winters family moves to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
22 May 1926: Lewis Nixon III takes third place in model yacht regatta, aged 7, at Central Park in New York City, New York.
1929: Beatrice Winters is born and dies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1931: Ann Winters is born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
~1936: Lewis Nixon III finishes primary school in Santa Barbara, California.
1937: Richard D Winters finishes from Lancaster Boys High School.
15 June 1937: Sally Wood Nixon dies in Washington, DC.
~1937-38: Lewis Nixon III studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for two years. Following this, he takes a job at Nixon Nitration Works, possibly as a plant foreman.
1937-41: Richard D Winters studies at Franklin and Marshall college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
23 September 1940: Lewis Nixon I dies, aged 79, in Long Branch, New Jersey.
20 December 1940: Lewis Nixon III marries Katherine Page of Phoenix, Arizona.
1941:
14 January: Lewis Nixon III inducted into the US Army in Trenton, New Jersey, having been drafted.
June: Richard D Winters graduates Franklin & Marshall University, first in his class, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
25 August: Richard D Winters called up for service in the US Army (he'd enlisted on graduation, but had to wait for a spot).
September to 27 November: Richard D Winters trains at Camp Croft, South Carolina.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 23.
7 December: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour.
8 December: U.S. enters war.
December 1941-March 1942: Richard D Winters serves in training position at Camp Croft, SC.
1942:
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 24.
6 April: Richard D Winters ships out for Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, befriends Lewis Nixon III.
2 July: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III graduate from OCS.
July: Richard D Winters returns to Camp Croft as a training officer, Lewis Nixon III transfers to Fort Ord, CA, as an MP.
Mid-August: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III report to Camp Toccoa, Georgia, as part of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR. Winters is platoon leader of 2nd Platoon. Nixon is assistant platoon leader of 2nd Platoon.
September: Some members of the 506th PIR complete jump training. Richard D Winters is jump master on the first flight having won an athletic competition.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 24.
October: Lewis Nixon III is assigned the role of battalion S2 (this may have happened in May '43), Richard D Winters promoted to first lieutenant.
1-4 December: 2nd Battalion marches to Atlanta.
26 December: Final members of E Company complete jump training. Everyone gets a 10-day furlough.
1943:
~1943: Michael Nixon born to Lewis Nixon III and Katherine Page.
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 25.
February-May: 506th PIR attends field training in Camp Mackall, NC. 506th PIR is integrated into the 101st Airborne Division.
May: Richard D Winters officially made executive officer of Easy Company.
5-15 July: Field exercises based out of Sturgis, Kentucky.
Late July: 101st Airborne moves to Fort Bragg, NC.
22 August: 101st Airborne begins to move to Camp Shanks, NY, in preparation for deployment to England.
Early September: 101st departs from New York City onboard the S.S. Samaria.
15 September: 101st arrives in Liverpool, England and proceeds to Aldbourne for continued training.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 25.
30 October: Richard D Winters requests court martial over latrine inspection. Assigned to battalion mess.
11 November: Richard D Winters returns to Easy Company in as leader of First Platoon.
1944:
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 26.
Late February: Richard D Winters takes a week furlough and visits Scotland.
23 March: A fully-fledged dress rehearsal of the Normandy jump takes place in the Ramsbury area in front of President Eisenhower, PM Winston Curchill, and all the top brass.
Late March: Richard D Winters is given a $25 fine by order of General Taylor for "failure during a recent condition of simulated combat to require a man under my command to wear a helmet".
April: The Winters pay off the mortgage on their house.
31 May: 101st moved to Upottery, England.
4 June: 101st prepares to jump into Normandy. Stood down because of weather.
5 June: 101st loads into planes at 10pm.
6 June: D-Day. Easy Company takes guns at Brécourt. Richard D. Winters put in command of E Company.
7 June: E Company assaults Vierville.
8-10 June: E Company on regimental HQ guard duty at Angoville-au-Plain.
11 June: 506th PIR prepares to attack Carentan.
12 June: Attack on Carentan. Richard. D. Winters wounded in the ankle.
13 June: German counter attack against Carentan. E Richard D Winters ordered five days of bed rest. No action save for patrols.
20 June: 506th PIR moved back to the front line around Carentan, patrols, no combat.
28-30 June: 101st rotated back to bivouac area south of Charbourg.
1 July: Richard D. Winters promoted to captain and awarded Distinguished Service Cross for action on D-Day.
10 July: 101st moved to Utah Beach.
11-12 July: 101st ships back to Southhampton, England via LST's from Utah Beach.
23 July: Majdanek, first major death camp liberated, by the advancing Soviet Red Army.
17-19 August: 101st activated for drop near Chartres, France, which does not occur.
31 August-4 September: 101st activated for drop in Belgium, which does not occur.
10 September: 101st marshalled for Market Garden.
17 September: Daytime jump into Holland for Market Garden. 101st fails to take bridge over Whilhemina Canal before it's blown.
18 September: 506th PIR enters Eindhoven. Takes bridges over Dommel River.
19 September: E Company runs into resistance at Nuenen and is pushed back. Eindhoven bombed.
22 September: E Company trucked to Uden, cut off by German assault and surrounded, holds Uden for two days.
24 September: E Company relieved in Uden.
25 September: Night attack on Vechel in heavy rain, attack continues all day. Lewis Nixon III shot in the helmet.
26 September: E Company returns to Uden, having sustained 22 casualties during Market Garden.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 26.
2 October: 101st trucked through Nijmegen to the Island on the south bank of the Rhine. Second Battalion's HQ in Hemmen.
5 October: Richard D. Winters leads patrol into two companies of SS and defeats them.
8 or 9 October: Richard D. Winters assigned to Second Battalion staff as executive officer.
22-23 October: E Company assists in rescue of stranded British paratroopers from other side of Rhine.
Soon after: Second Battalion moves HQ to Schoonderlogt. Lewis Nixon III is moved from S2 to S3 around this time.
31 October: Moose Heyliger shot by friendly fire.
23 November: 101st rotated to Mourmelon-le-Grand, France.
Early December: Richard D Winters visits Paris on a 48-hour pass. Lewis Nixon III promoted to Regiment S3.
16 December: Hitler begins Ardennes offensive.
17 December (late): 101st alerted to attack.
18 December (afternoon): 101st leaves Mourmelon for Bastogne.
19 December (1am ish): 101st arrives at Bastogne.
19 December (morning): The 506th’s 1st Battalion sent to Noville to re-enforce 10th Armored, the other two battalions were ordered to act as reserves north of Bastogne.
19 December (night): The 101st’s division service area to the west of Bastogne raided, causing the loss of almost its entire medical company.
20 December: 2nd Battalion brought up to the line above Foy.
19-20 December: 1st & 3rd Battalions fight in Noville & Foy. 1st pulls out of Noville via Foy on the 20th, badly beaten.
21 December: Saint-Vith falls. All seven highways leading to Bastogne were cut by German forces by noon.
22 December: Nuts!
23 December: Skies clear allowing air support. P-47 Thunderbolts pound German targets. C-47 Skytrains drop supplies.
24 December (7pm): Luftwaffe bombers attack Bastogne.
25 December: Another big USAAF fire fight.
26 December (4pm): 4th Armored Division breaks through, lifting siege.
27 December: Supply lines into Bastogne re-established. 101st informed that they will take part in counter offensive, and told to hold position.
1945:
~1945: Stanhope and Doris Nixon divorce. Lewis Nixon III is divorced from Katherine Page, marries Irene from England.
1 January: Major Luftwaffe bombing, 2nd Battalion ordered to clear Bois Jacques.
2 January: 2nd Battalion advances through Bois Jacques above Foy.
3 January: Toye and Guarnere severely injured by artillery barrage. Heavy snow begins to fall.
8 January: Snow storm.
10 January: Heavy German artillery barrage.
12 January: E Company attacks and takes town of Foy. Ronald Speirs put in command of E Company.
13 January: 2nd Battalion advances on Noville, overnights in snow.
14 January: 2nd Battalion takes Noville with only light resistance.
16 January: 2nd Battalion takes Rachamps and Hardigny
17 January: 17th Airborne relieves 101st in Ardennes.
19 January: 506th PIR directed to Alsace to hold the line against Nordwind.
21 January: Richard D Winters turns 27.
22 January: 506th PIR arrives in Drulingen, France, and is placed in reserve.
24 January: 506th PIR moves to Wilkersheim.
27 January: Auschwitz death camp liberated by the Soviets.
29 January: 506th PIR takes over and holds villages of Pfaffenoffen and Niedermodern along Modar River.
4 February: 506th supplied with winter clothing.
5 February: 506th PIR moves into Haguenau, relieving the 313th IR.
15 February: New lieutenant from Fox Company killed on patrol across the river.
Prisoner patrol and fake patrol in here somewhere.
20 February: 3rd Battalion relieves 2nd Battalion on the line. 2nd placed in reserve. Richard D. Winters promoted to Major.
23 February: 101st Airborne alerted that it will be rotated back to Mourmelon-le-Grand.
26 February: 101st arrives in Mourmelon-le-Grand by train.
7 March: First Army makes a break out at Remagen.
8 or 10 March: Richard D. Winters promoted to commander of 2nd Battalion. Lewis Nixon III demoted from 506th PIR's S3 to 2nd Battalion's S3.
23-24 March: The 17th Airborne drop over the Rhine at Wesel as part of Operation Varsity. Lewis Nixon III goes as an observer and almost dies.
25 March: Lewis Nixon III returns to Mourmelon-le-Grand by special plane.
1 April: 101st moves into occupation duty in Germany (holding a line along the Rhine from Sturzelberg to Worringen) to help close the Ruhr Pocket. Mostly anchors a line of battle and does patrols.
11 April: Buchenwald death camp liberated by the Americans.
12 April: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.
15 April: Bergen-Belsen death camp liberated by the British.
18 April: Germany armies in the Ruhr surrender/Ruhr pocket crumbles.
22 April: 101st departs Ruhr for Bavaria.
27-28 April: Six labour/concentration camps near Landsberg/Buchloe liberated.
29 April: Dachau liberated by the Americans and Ravensbrück by the Soviets.
30 April: Hilter commits suicide in Berlin.
2 May: Fall of Berlin.
3 May: 101st stationed in Thalem.
5 May: 506th PIR arrives in Berchtesgaden.
7 May: German army agrees to surrender.
8 May: Victory in Europe Day. 506th PIR departs for Zell am See, Austria.
9 May: 506th PIR arrives in Zell am See, Austria. 2nd Battalion occupies Kaprun and Bruck.
26 May: Richard D Winters attempts to transfer to the 13th Airborne Division in order to ship out to the C.B.I. sooner, is denied.
29 May: Richard D Winters award Bronze Star.
28 June: Most 85-point vets ship back to the US. Some officers including Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III declared essential. Richard D Winters bumped back to 2nd Battalion XO.
30 July: 506th PIR departs Austria for quarters Joigny, France.
14 August: Japan surrenders.
August: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III take a 14-day furlough to England.
September: Lewis Nixon III returns stateside. (Possibly by plane on 2 September?)
20 September: Richard D Winters takes part in a demonstration parachute jump.
30 September: Lewis Nixon III turns 27.
4-20 November: Richard D Winters ships back to the U.S., sailing from Marseilles to New York on the Wooster Victory.
25 or 29 November: Richard D Winters arrives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Post-War Years:
January 1946: Richard D Winters moves to New Brunswick, NJ, and begins job at Nixon Nitration.
21 January 1946: Richard D Winters turns 28.
22 January 1946: Richard D Winters officially discharged from the army.
30 July 1946: Richard N Winters dies of bleeding ulcers, aged 54, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
16 May 1948: Richard D Winters marries Ethel Estoppey.
24 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon dies, aged 54, in San Francisco, California
25 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon's funeral.
28 June 1948: Doris Ryer Nixon's estate settled, being divided between her children and held in trust until Blanche Nixon turns 30.
1949: Richard T Winters born in New Brunswick, NJ.
~Late 1951: Stanhope Nixon orders Richard D Winters to lay off a number of plant staff due to downsizing. Pulls an unloaded gun on Winters. Winters resolves to quit Nixon Nitration.
3 January 1952: Richard D Winters recalled to military service. Assigned to Fort Dix, NJ, as a training officer.
22 September 1952: Richard D Winters released from military service. Later takes job at Johnson & Johnson plant in New Brunswick, NJ.
August 1953: Lewis Nixon III and Blanche Nixon inherit their mother's estate, on Blanche's 30th birthday.
1954: Jill Winters born in New Brunswick, NJ. The citizens of Middlesex County changed the town of Nixon to Edison by referendum.
1955: Richard D Winters moves back to Pennsylvania, takes job with Whitmore Labs in Lebanon, PA.
4 November 1955: Blanche Nixon dies by suicide, aged 32, in San Francisco, California. Lewis Nixon III and Irene Nixon are present in the house. Irene Nixon finds the body.
Late 1955/early 1956: Lewis Nixon III and Irene Nixon divorce.
1956: Lewis Nixon III marries Grace Umezawa in Los Angeles, California
12 January 1958: Stanhope Nixon dies, aged 63, in New Brunswick, New Jersey
19 January 1962: Stanhope Nixon’s estate is decided.
7 February 1970: Edith Winters dies, aged 73, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
1971: Richard D Winters forms his own company, R.D. Winters Supply Company Inc, distributing animal feed products to feed mills.
1980: Richard D Winters and Lewis Nixon III attend their first Easy Company reunion in Nashville, TN.
6 June 1992: Stephen Ambrose publishes Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Lewis Nixon III refused to be interviewed.
11 January 1995: Lewis Nixon III dies of complications of diabetes, aged 76, in Los Angeles, California
1996: Richard D Winters retires.
9 September 2001: HBO’s Band of Brothers airs its first episode
2 January 2011: Richard D Winters dies, suffering from Parkinson’s, aged 92, in Hershey, Pennsylvania
11 April 2012: Ethel Winters dies, aged 89, in Hershey, Pennsylvania
16 January 2016: Grace Nixon dies, aged 94, in Sherman Oaks, California.