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The film stars Christian Bale and is based on the true story of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.
Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator who was the first captured U.S. pilot who escaped enemy captivity during the Vietnam war. He had escaped from the Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos after six months of torture and was rescued by American forces after surviving in the jungle for 23 days. His childhood hardship, as well as ...
May 20, 2017 · In February 1966, during a bombing run near the Laos-Vietnam border, Dieter Dengler’s plane was shot down. He was captured and for 7 days was interrogated by a province chief. At first the...
Born in Germany, Dieter Dengler was a U.S. Naval Aviator who was shot down over Laos and captured during the Vietnam War. After six months of torture, imprisonment, and 23 days on the run, he became only the second captured US airman to escape during the war. But Dengler was on the move his entire life. Early Life in Germany.
On February 2nd of 1966, US Navy Lieutenant Dieter Dengler was flying his first combat mission over North Vietnam from the carrier U.S.S. Ranger. The Ranger and its warplanes, including the Skyraiders of VA-145, had just repositioned from Dixie to Yankee Station following a short workup off the waters of South Vietnam in the South China Sea.
Dieter Dengler. DATE OF BIRTH: May 22, 1938. PLACE OF BIRTH: Wildberg, Germany. HOME OF RECORD: Hillsborough, California. Dieter Dengler was an American citizen who was born in Germany in...
Jul 12, 2010 · Bruce Henderson’s Quest to Tell Dieter Dengler’s Life Story. “As I stood there [onboard USS Ranger] clapping and whistling to help welcome back our hero pilot, Dieter Dengler, I was thinking this is like a scene in a Hollywood movie,” Henderson said.
