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Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator who was shot down over Laos and captured during the Vietnam War.After six months of imprisonment and torture, and 23 days on the run, he became only the second captured US airman to escape during the war.
Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), suicide by gunshot. [38] Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure. [39] Michael Grylls, 66, British politician. [40] Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War is a 2010 non-fiction book by author Bruce Henderson. Hero Found is a biography of Vietnam War hero Dieter Dengler, a German-born United States Navy naval aviator who endured six months of imprisonment and torture before being rescued.
1 February 1966: During one of the squadron’s combat missions over North Vietnam, Lieutenant (jg) Dieter Dengler was shot down. He was captured in Laos and imprisoned. On 30 June 1966 he escaped from a Pathet Lao prisoner-of-war camp, was rescued and returned to the squadron on 21 July.
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Escaped Pathet Lao prison camp with Dieter Dengler, Eugene DeBruin and others on 29 June 1966. Dengler saw him being killed by a Lao villager several days after their escape [123] Died in captivity, remains not returned [3] September 24: Osborn, Geoffrey H: Lieutenant (LTJG) US Navy: VF-194, USS Bon Homme Richard: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin
Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images General Hospital alum Johnny Wactor’s cause of death has been revealed. Wactor died by homicide at the age of 37, according to a coroner’s report viewed by Us ...
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