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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.
Out of 314 people on board, the death toll included 78 children, 35 Defense Attaché Office employees and 11 U.S. Air Force personnel; there were 176 survivors. [note 2] [5] All of the surviving orphans were eventually flown to the United States.
“We watched 400 Vietnam documentaries, and some are amazing — the Ken Burns series is incredible — but we didn’t think we’d seen any that first and foremost really got you inside the ...
The documentary and book tell the story of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, from their training through deployment in South Vietnam. It interviews former U.S. servicemen and massacre survivors; both describe the background of the area where the village of My Lai lay. (U.S soldiers referred to the entire area, made up of several hamlets and sub ...
Vietnam in HD (known as Vietnam Lost Films outside the US) is a 6-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 8 to November 11, 2011 on the History Channel. From the same producers as WWII in HD , the program focuses on the firsthand experiences of thirteen Americans during the Vietnam War .
The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973. A total of 395 fallen soldiers were from New Mexico, according to the ...
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion by a small unit of United States Army and allied Montagnard forces into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted from 11 to 14 September 1970. Its purpose was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the occupation forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN
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.