Matthew Settle, Actor: Into the West. Dike was the son of a New York State Supreme Court judge. Dike's sergeants informed him they were going to get killed because they were bracketed. Speirs neither denied nor confirmed the allegations. He subsequently became governor of Berlin's Spandau Prison in 1958, but returned to the US Army and was on a mission to the Royal Lao Army in 1962. He was very active with the Boy Scouts of America. Ronald Speirs was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 20 April 1920 and later emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts on 26 December 1924. He was initially assigned as a platoon leader in B Company of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He became known as "Foxhole Norman". Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs (20 April 1920 – 11 April 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Speirs eventually volunteered to fight in the Korean War and was commander of a rifle company, making one combat jump. Speirs attended a Russian language course in 1956 and eventually was made a liaison officer to the Red Army. He encountered Perconte, During the attack on Foy, Easy Company's CO Lt. Norman Dike encountered shell shock, so After Belgium, Easy then went to occupy Germany on 2 April 1945. On D-Day morning, it was said he gave cigarettes to Nazi POWs and immediately shot them with his submachine gun. He also shot a Sergeant for being drunk and insubordinate: Speirs reported this to his own commander, who stated he would consider reporting Speirs for charges, but the commander was killed in action shortly after and the matter was never pursued. Among the men of Easy Company, there were rumors that Speirs gave cigarettes to 20 Nazi POWs and later shot all but one, but this account was later reduced to six POWs. Brewer 1st Lt. Thomas Meehan III 1st Lt. Norman Dike; 1st Lt. Jack E. Foley 1st Lt. Frederick T. Heyliger 1st Lt. Thomas A. Peacock 1st Lt. Edward D. Shames 2nd Lt. Carwood Lipton; 1st Lt. Henry Jones 1st Lt. Robert H. Cowing 1st Lt. James K. Davis 1st Lt. Roy Paul Gates 1st Lt. Sterling W. Horner After the war, Speirs and his first wife divorced because she wanted to stay with her close-knit family in England instead of following Speirs to America. Speirs was reassigned to D Company of the 2nd Battalion prior to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and later assigned as commander of E Companyd… His unit was absorbed into Easy Company during Bastogne and he was assigned as Company Commander after relieving 1st Lieutenant Dike of duty during the assault on Foy, Belgium. He then went through military training in high school and eventually made 2nd Lieutenant. He remained in the Army and retired a Lieutenant Colonel. Any idea why the show has Dike dying during the assault on Foy, … During Operation Market Garden, he swam across the Neder river with vital information, in spite of being wounded in the buttocks by a machine gun, which was still firing at him. His business interests caused him to move to Switzerland where he lived until his death in 1985. They had one son together. He was a 1937 graduate of St. Paul's School and a 1941 graduate of Brown University. After Germany surrendered on 8 May, Speirs decided to stay and prepare to fight in Japan; however, Japan surrendered in August and the war ended. As a ranks-climber, he was not a good commander, which resulted in several Easy Company men's deaths during their attack on Foy. His mother was from the famous New York "Biddle jewelry family". He recovered and returned to Dog Company. During the Normandy Campaign, Speirs was wounded by a German M24 grenade (called a 'Potato Masher') in the face and knee. Band of Brothers (TV Mini-Series 2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
I was reading about Norman Dike in Band of Brothers Wiki and it states: "After the war, Dike earned his law degree from Yale Law School. Captain Ronald C. Speirs was the leader of Dog Company in the 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne. Actor. Speirs was then sent to Belgium on 17 December to fight at the Battle of Bulge (Bastogne).
At the same time, Winters later spoke in unflattering detail about Dike in his autobiography, After the war, Dike earned his law degree from Yale Law School. Dike was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter O'Meara. Lieutenant Dike was born in Brooklyn, New York. Speirs joined the and was assigned to Baker Company, 1st Battalion, Speirs, his unit and Easy Company eventually dropped into Normandy on 6 June 1944.
Known in households, around the world, for his work in the cultural phenomenon, Gossip Girl (2007), as "Rufus Humphrey", as well as the celebrated "Capt. Matthew Settle continues to evolve into a respected actor of Stage and Screen. Ronald Speirs" from the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Band of Brothers (2001), Settle has …