Band of Brothers: What Happened To Dike After The War
HBO's Bandof Brothers is an epic re-telling of the 101st Airborne's «Easy» company's heroic activities during WW2, which casts Lieutenant Norman Dike as an incompetent character — whose real life was surprisingly at odds with the portrayal. Many of the other surviving members of Easy Company, including Richard Winters and Lewis Nixon, would go on to lead successful lives. That Norman Dike could be counted among their number shows he was an exemplary man in his own right.
It's Band of Brothers episode 7, «Breaking Point», which introduces Dike as a cringe-worthy commanding officer transferred from Division HQ to gain combat experience. Played by actor Peter O'Meara, he is shown constantly yawning, being inattentive, and having to "take a call." Both in action and out of it, Dike is nowhere to be found, and Easy nicknames him «Foxhole Norman.» Things come to a conclusive head when E company is tasked with capturing Foy, Belgium, and Lieutenant Dike disastrously stalls the offensive by ordering his troops to halt in exposed conditions under enemy fire. Carwood Lipton, Easy's first sergeant, recounts Dike having "fallen apart" in an interview. Soldier Clancy Lyall, however, remembers Lieutenant Dike having been wounded. Whether or not Band of Brothers details this event accurately is subjective to the remembrances of Easy Company.
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Many watching Band of Brothers would conclude Norman Dike wasn't fit for active field command, but the real story is a different matter. According to historical documents (via People Pill) on peoplepill.com, Dike had “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road… while
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