Dieter Dengler
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title:
Dieter Dengler
text:
Dieter Dengler 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. Of the seven prisoners of war who escaped together from the Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos, only he and Thai citizen Phisit Intharathat survived. After the war, he worked as a test pilot for private aircraft and as a commercial airlin
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US Navy pilot and escaped POW (1938–2001)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Dengler
date created:
2005-09-20T21:07:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T11:10:01Z
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