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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 was born on May 22, 1938 in Wildberg, in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and was raised by his mother alongside his brothers. He did not know his father, who was forced to join the German army when he was an infant and was killed during World War II on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1943-44.
Death and Burial. On 7 February 2001, Lieutenant Dieter Dengler rolled his wheelchair down to the driveway of a fire station in Mill Valley, CA, and shot himself. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA. An exemplary guard of honor was present at the burial as well as a fly-over by Navy F-14 Tomcats.
Name. The incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly) and a motion picture (Rescue.
Jul 4, 2007 · His first Hollywood feature, “Rescue Dawn” is a dramatic interpretation of the true-life ordeal of U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler, who escaped from a Laotian prisoner-of-war camp and survived ...
Dieter Dengler's parents were Ernst Dieter Dengler and Barbara Wagner. His father, Ernest, a bookbinder by trade, was drafted into the German Wehrmacht in 1939 which was the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. Little is known of his death in combat operations between Germany and the Soviet Union in the Balkans.
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Oct 2, 2016 · For nearly three weeks, Dengler and Martin were on the run, getting weaker and sicker by the day, existing on the remains found at abandoned campsites and taking great risks in stealing from villagers. An accidental meeting with a local resulted in Martin’s death, and Dengler was literally running for his life.
