Nichols

"Filthy German son of a bitch!"

- Pvt Nichols.

Private Nichols is the main playable character and protagonist in Call of Duty 3.

Biography
He is possibly from New York City and was first seen in a camp near Saint-Lô, with Pvt. Leroy Huxley, and other soldiers. There Huxley teaches Nichols and Travers to shoot, and throw grenades. Nichols later has to bash a crate open to get a Thompson Submachine Gun. He and his squad then load into the truck being driven by Pvt. Huxley. This is when Nichols is first introduced to his sergeant, Frank McCullin. They are introduced to his "rules", and they start off for Saint-Lô. On the way to Saint-Lô, the truck his squad is in gets hit by German artillery fire. It rolls, and when Nichols comes to, Cpl. Mike Dixon is pulling him to the regroup position. There Sgt. McCullin is giving orders to Pfc. Salvatore Guzzo. Nichols then gets his orders and get boosted over a wall into the fight routing the Germans out of Saint-Lò. After fighting in the battles of the Falaise gap, Nichols is loaded onto a truck and is met by Guzzo and Huxley as they are promoted as well as Nichols himself. Eventually Nichols is rotated out for R&R. He may have been killed later on in the war, but he may have survived.

Trivia

 * Some people believe that Nichols is the soldier at the front of the Call of Duty 3 case, but this has not been confirmed. He may also be on the back of the case, as the infantryman locked against a Wehrmacht soldier.
 * Nichols is not the sniper at the beginning of "Crossroads", because that soldier is seen in finale as a soldier in the supply truck and he makes a remark to Nichols about Guzzo's "one rule".
 * Pvt. Nichols is considered to have one of the highest single games kills counts out of all playable characters in the Call of Duty series. This is due to a few factors, there are twice as many American campaign levels as any other faction in Call of Duty 3, and he participated in many of the final battles of Normandy where the retreating German armies created a massive offensive for the encircling allied armies.
 * Nichols is most likely the Character seen at the end of the level "The Forest", because near the end there is only one other soldier in the pit with the Mortar, and it is definitely not Guzzo, who is talking to Dixon as he (Nichols) and Huxley watch them.
 * Nichols first talks in "Saint-Lô", after taking the German soldier hand to hand. He sounds similar to a combination of McCullins' voice and Dixon's.
 * Nichols seems to be treated as the 'new guy' in "Mayenne Bridge", when Sgt. McCullin mistakenly calls him "Nixon". Cpl. Dixon then replies, "Sarge, it's Nichols".
 * It is unknown if Nichols or the rest of his squad took part in D-day.