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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.
Rescue Dawn is a 2006 epic war drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on the true story of Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), a German-American pilot who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.
On the morning of 1 February, Lieutenant Dengler launched from Ranger with three other aircraft on an interdiction mission near the Laotian border. Visibility was poor due to weather, and upon rolling in on the target, Dengler and the remainder of his flight lost sight of one another. Dengler was the last man in and was hit by anti-aircraft fire.
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.
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
Dieter Dengler. June 29, 1966 – Dieter Dengler, Pisidhi Indradat, Duane W. Martin, Eugene DeBruin, Prasit Promsuwan (a Thai), Prasit Thanee (a Thai), and Y. C. To (a Nationalist Chinese) escaped from a Pathet Lao camp in Laos. U.S. Navy pilot Dengler was rescued on July 20. Martin was killed (according to Dengler) outside of a Laotian village.
He was accompanied by Dengler despite Dengler's insistence that it would be suicide. The pair were spotted by a boy playing with a dog and were attacked by a machete-wielding villager after the boy cried out. Martin was killed after being hit in the leg and neck. Dengler managed to escape; he was the only survivor of the group aside from ...