This is such a fantastic resource! I'm really impressed at the breadth of your research - this'll be really handy to refer to in future.
A couple of additional things to add -
Alton More was, I believe, from Casper, Wyoming. The son of a saloon-owner, no less, which always makes me imagine him as a cowboy.
Also, you don't need to just say 'Luzerne County' for Harry Welsh - asides from the war, he spent his whole life in Wilkes-Barre. (I'm surprised at your data for Toye, too! I'd got the impression somewhere that he was from Pittston. Then again, Hughestown is very close, I can see why some people would use it as shorthand.)
On a completely different note, that list of casualties makes me wibble. Especially Ack-Ack and Hillbilly, so close in age, dying two days apart.
thank you so much! i literally spent all of yesterday doing this, with a bit of help from rivlee (who is my go-to history resource for everything, i swear xD)
i have alton more on there! =D and i'll certianly add the saloon-owner bit to the +extra notes (hahaha, well, he did have a certain kind of swagger to him, didn't he?)
will update welsh's!
ugh, when i started doing the casualty list (which is also missing a bit, especially from the pacific, since the social security death index doesn't reach back to the 40s and thus doesn't have any birthdates for people who were killed during the war -- so it's hard to find any info on them. which ...just makes it even sadder, you know?) i got so sad. :/ and was also surprised at the overlap between what was happening in TP and BoB at the same time. it's always easier to see the comparison/what was happening simultaneously when you have it all laid out!
Shan is just the fount of all knowledge. I love how many people there are in this fandom who are goldmines of information, and she's one of the best.
And yeah, the different pacing of the shows, it kind of fucks with your head lining them up comparatively. The events in BoB are more compressed and are over faster compared to the Pacific - Easy's time fighting is limited to July 1944 to spring 1945, while for the Marines it's spread out from 1942 to mid-1945. It's weird realising that a lot of the Melbourne stuff runs concurrent to the Airborne still in training in Britain, or that the fighting in Okinawa is happening while Easy are living it up in Austria (indeed, that it's that they were watching on that damn newsreel in Points).
Oh, also, Nixon after the war spent a lot of time in California again. His mother had a mansion in San Francisco and I believe it was in either the San Francisco mansion or the Montecito villa that his sister committed suicide.
ohh, good to know! thank you /adding it (and oh man, i don't actually know too much about nixon's family and didn't know that about his sister, that's terrible;; )
No problem. Nixon's mother was Doris Ryer of the Ryers of San Francisco; they owned an agricultural empire in the California central valley, including Ryer Island in the Sacramento Delta. She died of cancer sometime soon after the war. His younger sister Blanche shot herself while Nix and his second wife Julia (the lady from Aldbourne) were in the house. I don't think she died immediately. Nix's father Stanhope went on trial for assault when he was in college (I forget if it was Princeton or Yale) for beating a man with a piece of wood or an oar or something, but somehow was either acquitted or sentenced to time served. He was kind of unbalanced and a heavy drinker
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oo, thank you for mentioning that, actually, because i should change the wording of it a bit --- this is the fact from his book:
"I had a wonderful mother -- very conservative. She came from a Mennonite family, but never converted to that faith. Honesty and discipline were driven into my head from day one. [...] In my early days at home, she had always impressed upon me to respect women, and my father repeatedly told me that if I was going to drink, I should drink at home. I made up my mind, however, that I wasn't going to drink, and I have never lost my respect for women."
[pgs 4-5; Beyond Band of Brothers, Major Dick Winters with Colonel Cole C. Kingseed]
so his mother had a Mennonite background/raised him with values learned from that, though they weren't actually of the faith
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A couple of additional things to add -
Alton More was, I believe, from Casper, Wyoming. The son of a saloon-owner, no less, which always makes me imagine him as a cowboy.
Also, you don't need to just say 'Luzerne County' for Harry Welsh - asides from the war, he spent his whole life in Wilkes-Barre. (I'm surprised at your data for Toye, too! I'd got the impression somewhere that he was from Pittston. Then again, Hughestown is very close, I can see why some people would use it as shorthand.)
On a completely different note, that list of casualties makes me wibble. Especially Ack-Ack and Hillbilly, so close in age, dying two days apart.
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i have alton more on there! =D and i'll certianly add the saloon-owner bit to the +extra notes (hahaha, well, he did have a certain kind of swagger to him, didn't he?)
will update welsh's!
ugh, when i started doing the casualty list (which is also missing a bit, especially from the pacific, since the social security death index doesn't reach back to the 40s and thus doesn't have any birthdates for people who were killed during the war -- so it's hard to find any info on them. which ...just makes it even sadder, you know?) i got so sad. :/ and was also surprised at the overlap between what was happening in TP and BoB at the same time. it's always easier to see the comparison/what was happening simultaneously when you have it all laid out!
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And yeah, the different pacing of the shows, it kind of fucks with your head lining them up comparatively. The events in BoB are more compressed and are over faster compared to the Pacific - Easy's time fighting is limited to July 1944 to spring 1945, while for the Marines it's spread out from 1942 to mid-1945. It's weird realising that a lot of the Melbourne stuff runs concurrent to the Airborne still in training in Britain, or that the fighting in Okinawa is happening while Easy are living it up in Austria (indeed, that it's that they were watching on that damn newsreel in Points).
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"I had a wonderful mother -- very conservative. She came from a Mennonite family, but never converted to that faith. Honesty and discipline were driven into my head from day one. [...] In my early days at home, she had always impressed upon me to respect women, and my father repeatedly told me that if I was going to drink, I should drink at home. I made up my mind, however, that I wasn't going to drink, and I have never lost my respect for women."
[pgs 4-5; Beyond Band of Brothers, Major Dick Winters with Colonel Cole C. Kingseed]
so his mother had a Mennonite background/raised him with values learned from that, though they weren't actually of the faith
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