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Norman Dike

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Norman Dike
File:Lieutenant Norman Dike (1943).jpg
First Lieutenant Norman Dike (1943)
Birth nameNorman Staunton Dike Jr.
Nickname(s)"Foxhole Norman"
Born(1918-05-19)19 May 1918
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died23 June 1989(1989-06-23) (aged 71)
Rolle, Switzerland
Resting Place
West Thompson Cemetery, Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut
AllegianceUnited States
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service
  • 1942–1945 (active)
  • 1945–1957 (active reserve)
RankLieutenant Colonel
Unit101st Airborne Division
  1. Headquarters, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  2. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  3. Headquarters, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  4. Division Headquarters
Battles/wars
Awards
Spouse(s)
  1. Barbara Tredick Dimmick McIntire
    (m. 1942; div. 1946)
  2. Catherine Pochon (m. 1957)
Relations
  • Norman S. Dike Sr. (father)
  • Evelyn M. Biddle (mother)
  • Barbara Matilda Dike (daughter, b. 23 March 1943[2])
  • Deborah Ann Dike (daughter, b. 7 April 1958[3])
  • Anthony Randolph Dike (son, b. 10 August 1959[4])
Other work
  • U.S. Uranium Company
  • United Western Minerals Company

Norman Staunton Dike Jr. (19 May 1918 – 23 June 1989) was an officer of the United States Army who later served in the U.S. Army Reserve. During World War II he was a lieutenant and captain in the 101st Airborne Division, where one assignment was company commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. After World War II, he became a lawyer and businessman and eventually became a permanent resident of Switzerland. Dike was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter O'Meara.

Early life and education[edit]

Dike's father, Norman Dike Sr. was a New York lawyer and judge.

Dike was born to Norman Staunton Dike Sr., a New York State Supreme Court judge, and Evelyn M. Biddle on 19 May 1918.[1][5] He was a 1937 graduate of St. Paul's School. In May 1939, Dike's parents divorced and his mother married Randolph Chandler of Thompson, Connecticut in October of the same year. Normand (sic) Dike (mother: Eveylen (sic) Chandler) was listed on the 1940 United States Census as having been a resident of Thompson for at least five years. He attended Brown University and, as a freshman, pledged to Psi Upsilon fraternity.[6] Dike graduated Brown in 1941.[1][5][7] He studied at Yale Law School prior to June 1942, but did not graduate before entering the US Army. He married Barbara Tredick Dimmick McIntire on 20 June 1942.[5]

Career[edit]

Pre-war[edit]

Dike was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army in August 1941.[5]

World War II[edit]

Lieutenant Dike began active duty on 22 January 1942.[8] By July 1942, he was assigned to the 101st Cavalry Regiment, Fort Devens, Massachusetts.[8][9]

Dike attended the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 20 December 1942. He volunteered for airborne duty and, after attending Parachute School, was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In June 1944, he parachuted into occupied France as part of the Normandy Invasion.[8]

In September 1944, during Operation Market Garden, Dike, assigned as the assistant S-2 (Intelligence Officer) of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, jumped into the Netherlands.[8][10] Dike was awarded a Bronze Star for his actions between 23 and 25 September 1944 at Uden, Netherlands. Within the 101st Airborne Division, Dike "organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Einhoven (sic)-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded."[7][8]

During the first week of November 1944, after Lieutenant Frederick Heyliger, who was commanding Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was accidentally shot by a member of Easy Company, Dike was transferred from Division headquarters to replace Heyliger as company commander. Captain Richard Winters, who was the former commander of E Company and was then serving as executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, described Dike as being tall, slim and good-looking and having a military bearing.[11]:166 Winters later wrote of Dike as being an inexperienced officer who, his superiors believed, needed exposure to the front line.[12] Lieutenant Edward Shames did not believe that Dike and some other officers were concerned about casualties but did not explain the basis for his opinion.[13] Dike acquired the pejorative nickname of "Foxhole Norman" among the members of Easy Company.[14]

After the siege of Bastogne was broken on 27 December 1944, operations began to retake the territory lost to the Axis during the Battle of the Bulge.

Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945.[7][8]

In preparation for the 13 January 1945 attack on Foy, Belgium, E Company was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR.[15] Division Headquarters ordered the attack to begin at 0900 hours. During the assault, Dike led Easy Company forward and ordered 1st platoon to the left, then lost contact with the platoon. Dike ordered the remainder of the company to take cover after coming under fire. With the unit unable to proceed, his subordinates informed him they were going to get killed because they were sitting ducks. At the same time, Winters tried radioing him to tell him the same thing.[11]:209–217

Carwood Lipton, at that time the company's first sergeant, described Dike as having "fallen apart."[11]:209–217 Clancy Lyall stated that he saw that Dike had been wounded in his right shoulder and that it was the wound, not panic, that caused Dike to stop. Winters sent First Lieutenant Ronald Speirs to relieve Dike of his responsibility for the attack and complete it. Dike returned to the rear in the company of a medic; Winters ignored Dike.[16]:251—253 Foy was secured by 1300 hours.[16]:251—253

During the evening of 13 January, Winters recommended and Colonel Robert Sink approved permanently replacing Dike with Speirs.[16]:251—253 Dike was transferred to 506th Regimental Headquarters to become an assistant operations officer.[12]

Dike was promoted to captain on 1 April 1945.[8] He became an aide-de-camp to General Maxwell Taylor, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division.[12][11]:250 He participated in the campaign in southern Germany.[8]

Dike was released from active duty on 15 September 1945.[8]

Post-war[edit]

After World War II, Dike remained in the U.S. Army Reserve and served during the Korean War, eventually attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned his commission in 1957.[1]

Later life and death[edit]

In late June 1946, Barbara McIntire Dike was granted a divorce from Norman Dike in Reno, Nevada[17]

Dike received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1947, became a member of the New York Bar in 1949 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1954. From 1950–1953, he was a U.S. Commissioner in Japan. He also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1951–1953. He then practiced law in New York City and in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi.[18]

In 1954, Dike moved to New Mexico to prospect for uranium.[19] He was an officer of the U.S. Uranium Company, United Western Minerals Company and other oil and mining interests in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] On 12 March 1957, Dike wed Catherine Pochon; his residences were listed as Thompson, Connecticut, and Santa Fe.[20] In October 1958 Dike was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. He visited Thompson, Connecticut and Providence in November 1958. In 1959, Dike, his wife and baby left Santa Fe for Switzerland; it was his intention to study at the International School of Law at The Hague. Dike resigned his positions as vice president and comptroller of United Western Minerals Company in Santa Fe but continued as a director.[21] By 1959, he had established a law practice in Lausanne, Switzerland.[22] In 1960, Dike became a permanent resident of Switzerland.[1]

Dike died in Rolle, Switzerland, on 23 June 1989 after a long illness. He was survived by his two daughters, his son, and two grandchildren.[1][23]

In popular culture[edit]

Dike is portrayed in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Irish actor Peter O'Meara.


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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Deceased" (PDF). St. Paul's School. p. 147. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Births (Barbara)" (PDF). Saint Paul's School Archives. St. Paul's School. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Births (Deborah)" (PDF). Saint Paul's School Archives. Saint Paul's School. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Births (Anthony)" (PDF). Saint Paul's School Archives. St. Paul's School. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Dike, Norman Staunton (1942). Narrative of Anthony Dike; Albyn Valentine Dike Branch 1623 — 1942. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Shea Brothers Printers. p. 43. Retrieved 8 May 2015. Search this book on
  6. ↑ "The Diamond of Psi Upsilon". Google Books. Psi Upsilon Fraternity. p. 106. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Alumni in the Limelight". Brown Alumni Monthly. 47 (6): 16. April 1947. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Davis, Dudley; Cassard, Morris Jr.; Curtin, Enos W.; Hoyt, Colgate; Jaques, George W.; Leary, Lamar R., eds. (1947). "Norman S. Dike Jr.". Union Club World War II Records 1940 - 1947. New York, New York: Union Club of the City of New York, Inc. pp. 75–76. Capt Norman S. Dike Jr. holds two Bronze Star awards for heroic action. The first followed his exploit at Uden, Holland, with the 101st Airborne Division from which between Sept 23 and 25, 1944 he organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Einhoven-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded. Later, at Bastogne on Jan. 3, 1945, he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire. |access-date= requires |url= (help) Search this book on
  9. ↑ Bliss, Harry S. (3 July 1942). "'06". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 42: 37. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  10. ↑ *Koskimaki, George (1989). Hell's Highway: A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne in the Holland Campaign, September-November 1944. p. 113. Retrieved 13 May 2015. Search this book on
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Ambrose, Stephen E. (1992). Band of Brothers: Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-76922-7. Search this book on
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Winters, Richard; Kingseed, Cole C (2006). Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Richard Winters (1st electronic ed.). New York, New York: Berkley Caliber. ISBN 978-1-1012-0566-2. Retrieved 9 May 2015. Search this book on
  13. ↑ Gardner, Ian (2015). Airborne: The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company. Osprey Publishing. p. 183. ISBN 1472804856. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Search this book on
  14. ↑ Guarnere, William J.; Heffron, Edward J.; Post, Robyn (2008). Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story. New York: Berkley Caliber. ISBN 978-0-425-21728-3. Search this book on :147, 160
  15. ↑ Sink, Robert. "After Action Report" (PDF). CURRAHEE. 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association (Airmobile - Air Assault). Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Alexander, Larry (May 2010). In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth. New York, New York: NAL Caliber. ISBN 978-1-101-18730-2. Retrieved 8 May 2015. Search this book on
  17. ↑ "Decreees Granted". Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada. 22 June 1946. p. 6. Free to read
  18. ↑ "Member Search Results". Phi Delta Phi. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  19. ↑ "Brunonians Far and Near 54". Brown Alumni Monthly. 54 (6): 32. March 1954. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  20. ↑ "Mrs. Pochon is wed to Norman Dike Jr". New York Times. 13 March 1957. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  21. ↑ "Brunonians Far and Near 58". Brown Alumni Monthly. 59 (4): 16. January 1959. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  22. ↑ "Brunonians Far and Near 59". Brown Alumni Monthly. 60 (1): 49. October 1959. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  23. ↑ "Obituaries". Brown Alumni Monthly. 90 (5): 63. February 1990. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

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