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2. Juli 2024 · On July 20, 1966, US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was rescued after escaping a POW camp in Laos, where he endured months of torture and deprivation after his plane was shot down near the North Vietnam-Laos border during the Vietnam War. He became only the second captured airman to escape during the war.
Dengler recounts an early memory of Allied fighter-bombers destroying his village and says he decided he wanted to be a pilot after seeing one of these pilots fly past his house. At the age of 18, Dengler emigrated to the United States, where he served a two-year enlistment in the United States Air Force. Frustratingly, he was unable to gain a ...
But Laos? To orientate ourselves, EFL is the tale of a Navy Pilot, Dieter Dengler and his escape from a Pathet Lao POW camp in eastern Laos. My edition's one map shed no further geopgrapical light on the situation. Inferior maps no longer surprise this reviewer. Dengler escapes his surprisingly undisciplined guards easily enough. But what ...
Der Film erzählt die Geschichte des in Deutschland geborenen Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), der als Kind das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in seiner zerstörten Heimat erlebte. Als er eines Tages alliierte Kampfflugzeuge am Himmel sieht, steht sein Entschluss fest: Er „muss“ Pilot werden.
Dieter Dengler first dreamed of flight as a boy in World War II Germany when a low-flying Allied bomber lay waste to his Black Forest town. So close he could see the pilot’s face, Dengler instantly equated flight to freedom, to escape from the hunger the war had visited on his family.
The following sound clip from the movie, is of Dengler and Deatrick relating the details of the rescue. (Used with permission) NOTE: Dieter Dengler passed away on Feb 7, 2001. He was afflicted with ALS and this disease finally took his life. Audio recording with Gene Deatrick and Dieter Dengler discussing Dengler's Rescue (RealAudio 5:26)
Rescue Dawn: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Christian Bale, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Toby Huss. A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
