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James “Jimmy” Charles Trimble III
Birth: 10 Oct 1925, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA. Death: 1 Mar 1945 (aged 19), Iwo Jima, Ogasawara-shichō, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
Jimmy Trimble attended St. Albans, a prep school in Washington, D.C., and was a star athlete for four years in football, basketball and baseball. Trimble's mound heroics caught the attention of Senators owner Clark Griffith, who invited him to a tryout. Manager Ossie Bluege was impressed and gave him a $5,000 signing bonus and agreed to pay for a four-year scholarship to Duke University. American novelist, Gore Vidal, was a student at St. Albans the same time as Trimble. His 1948 novel The City and the Pillar was dedicated to "the memory of J.T." Vidal claimed he had a sexual relationship with Trimble and that the athlete was the only person he had ever loved.
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Trimble enrolled at Duke in September 1943. With World War II in full stride he enlisted with the Marines. In June 1944, Private Trimble headed to the Pacific Theater. In February 1945, the 3rd Marine Division left Guam bound for Iwo Jima. Just after midnight on March 1, the area was overrun by the Japanese. A Japanese soldier, with a mine strapped to his body, wrapped his arms around the severely wounded Trimble and detonated the mine, killing them both.

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I found some more info on James Charles Trimble III (very sad and tragic...I'm thankful for his sacrifice)
His stats = 5'11½", 155-pound
He had an older sister who died at an early age
His mother passed away in 1999 (age 98)...she outlived her 2 children by 50+ years :(

Memorials: Pvt. James "Jimmy" Trimble III (USMC)
and here: James Charles Trimble III (1925-1945) - Find a...

More photos here: Photos of James Charles Trimble III - Find a Grave...

Regarding Jimmy and Gore Vidal being "boyfriends"...I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!!!
1) Vidal was a very famous fiction author with a penchant for saying outrageous things
2) Vidal did dedicate a book to Jimmy...but there were no accounts from other people (friends, classmates, etc.) about their down-low romantic relationship...nor there were letters or correspondences between them
3) I think Vidal (like most closeted gay youths, myself included) just had a massive one-way crush on a hot HS classmate

Jimmy and his fiance Christine White:
1) they agreed to get married when he returned
"He talked about her constantly," Mates recalled. "He was always showing me pictures of her and talking about how beautiful she was, which you could see from the pictures she obviously was. He would hold up the picture and say, 'This is what's waiting for me when I get home.'
2) While in the Marines (about a year and a half)..."He wrote more than 70 letters," Christine White said
3) "Jimmy Trimble lay dead in the foxhole. In the breast pocket of his uniform was his wallet, containing the picture of Christine White that he always carried with him."

If you want to know more ***PLEASE READ***
ESPN.com - Page2 - The Legacy of Jimmy Trimble

About his girlfriend Christine White: Christine White (actress) - Wikipedia
1) she was a beautiful young lady...She + Jimmy were definitely the "it" couple in their circles
2) she became a relatively famous Hollywood actress...she never did get married
Author Gore Vidal noted in his memoir Palimpsest that White, "almost invariably got the (television) parts that my friend Joanne Woodward wanted." He continued, "When Joanne received the Academy Award (1957 - The Three Faces of Eve), I wired her, 'Where is Chris White tonight?'
3) Jimmy was remembered at a Veterans Day 2000 tribute to the baseball heroes of World War II...she was there
 
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I found some more info on James Charles Trimble III (very sad and tragic...I'm thankful for his sacrifice)
His stats = 5'11½", 155-pound
He had an older sister who died at an early age
His mother passed away in 1999 (age 98)...she outlived her 2 children by 50+ years :(

Memorials: Pvt. James "Jimmy" Trimble III (USMC)
and here: James Charles Trimble III (1925-1945) - Find a...

More photos here: Photos of James Charles Trimble III - Find a Grave...

Regarding Jimmy and Gore Vidal being "boyfriends"...I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!!!
1) Vidal was a very famous fiction author with a penchant for saying outrageous things
2) Vidal did dedicate a book to Jimmy...but there were no accounts from other people (friends, classmates, etc.) about their down-low romantic relationship...nor there were letters or correspondences between them
3) I think Vidal (like most closeted gay youths, myself included) just had a massive one-way crush on a hot HS classmate

Jimmy and his fiance Christine White:
1) they agreed to get married when he returned
"He talked about her constantly," Mates recalled. "He was always showing me pictures of her and talking about how beautiful she was, which you could see from the pictures she obviously was. He would hold up the picture and say, 'This is what's waiting for me when I get home.'
2) While in the Marines (about a year and a half)..."He wrote more than 70 letters," Christine White said
3) "Jimmy Trimble lay dead in the foxhole. In the breast pocket of his uniform was his wallet, containing the picture of Christine White that he always carried with him."

If you want to know more ***PLEASE READ***
ESPN.com - Page2 - The Legacy of Jimmy Trimble

About his girlfriend Christine White: Christine White (actress) - Wikipedia
1) she was a beautiful young lady...She + Jimmy were definitely the "it" couple in their circles
2) she became a relatively famous Hollywood actress...she never did get married
Author Gore Vidal noted in his memoir Palimpsest that White, "almost invariably got the (television) parts that my friend Joanne Woodward wanted." He continued, "When Joanne received the Academy Award (1957 - The Three Faces of Eve), I wired her, 'Where is Chris White tonight?'
3) Jimmy was remembered at a Veterans Day 2000 tribute to the baseball heroes of World War II...she was there

Continued from my previous post...

There were no penetrations...Jimmy Trimble and Gore Vidal jerked off and came in 2 separate occasions...

From the book Palimpsest, A Memoir by Gore Vidal. Copyright (C) 1995
Pursuit of the Whole

Both of them (their cemetery plots) were buried very close to each other.
 
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