damien1999 Many thanks to your father for his service!

Chuck Gilbert :)

Amazing, thank you

Wow thanks!

Watch the documentary: Little Dieter Needs To Fly It's Dieter telling the entire exact story before he died.

Myself, I refuse to give Lindbergh “legendary” status. F-- Lindbergh! He used his influence as one of the most prominent individuals in America.. while devoting his heart & soul to spewing Nazi ideology, Nazi appeasement, and American isolationism at a time when England and the free world needed us more than ever. His achievements are legendary indeed, but history must deny him of being considered a “legend.” Nevertheless.. I couldn’t agree more in respect to Dengler’s “legend” status.

@@albertpotenza1748Yup this right here 👍

Just in case you've not seen this yet ..... Incredible documentary on Dieter Dengler's story called "Little Dieter Needs To Fly" directed by Werner Herzog in 1997. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kL2mZb2lnsm6YWg.html I watch this film at least once a year. In fact I just finished another viewing an hour ago. I wiki'd him and noticed he was on Hollywood Squares, and I've Got A Secret. Which is why I'm here.

What aircraft did they fly and what years? I was a flight attendant and I think I flew with this man.

@@Ivehadenuff so was my cousin, but she left TWA to marry and follow her marine biologist husband to Guam for his career. There she trained as a nurse and midwife and had two young daughters of her own, only to be murdered while out on a bike ride with her two babies next to her. Her husband reared the two girls as a single dad.

@@safepethaven I’m so sorry to hear that story.

@@Ivehadenuff Thank you, it was a very difficult loss to accept as I didn't know, even meet, but a few of my cousins growing up and only 3 were older than I [all of us girls] but Patricia was my favorite and looked up to her. We all grew up far flung from each other so only got to meet/visit on short travels usually when my parents and I drove long distances to visit near where they were. No bad blood, just not opportunities to be friends and be close. It was hard enough to lose Pat but to have visual memories of the murder writeup of a madman rushing out of the bushes to stab her to death with her elder daughter riding her little bike next to her and the toddler in a seat on the back of Pat's adult bike. The horror. The irony is that she helped the women of their area in Guam to serve as a nurse and midwife, to lower infant mortality, train new mothers in neo-natal care, thus to save and improve lives, not destroy them. And yes I do honor both Lt. Dwngler and the former Sen. John McCain for their service and their bravery and tenacity.

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A major factor in his survival was the fact that he was a child during WWII and survived the bombings in his native Germany. He was also a machinist and somewhat of a gunsmith which gave him a great creative skill set. He passed in 2001, and I had the good fortune to meet (in 2009) his neighbor/best friend ( also a German Immigrant to the US) whom was a good friend of my boss. This man was visiting our office, and he asked if I was German….One thing led to another and I knew that Dengler was a resident of Mill Valley, where this man lived. I asked if he ever met Dieter Dengler , and he began to openly weep. He was baffled that I knew of him and his life, and we had an lovely and long conversation about his very good, and beloved friend. He was a national treasure, and a hero . May he rest in blessed peace.

Have a look at 4:46. If you watched "Little Dieter needs to fly" by Werner Herzog, you know what happened to his arms. He explains it in cruel detail there.

Also Laos was a secret war so he was shot down in Laos, not in North Vietnam like it states here

At the time his mission was secret due to it being in Laos.

That movie has alot of mistakes

It's great that a young person admires his story. He was a great American as you are !

What??? I'm not American hahahahha

It's called "Little Dieter Needs To Fly" Incredible film. About an incredible man. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kL2mZb2lnsm6YWg.html

Those people are a disgrace the Way they treated the veterans.

Most were WW2 Veterans

That and the Navy Cross hard to miss that little blue ribbon with a white line down the middle

@museack Yo dickhead,a typo does not disqualify me as having never known the man. His wife was Irene Lam a stewardess at TWA. Her family was from Burma and she was educated in Australia. They moved to Houston and ran a Chinese restaurant in the 70's. Her sister Esther was my cousins fiancee and that's how I knew Dieter. Dieter used to restore gull wing Mercedes cars as a passtime. He used to hang out at Speckmann's in SF with his German buddies drinking and singing He came close to once again dying when a boat he was on by himself broke down off the SF coast and he was without power or communications for a couple of days. Aside from that I never knew the man personally.

@museack Yup ,you are an asshole. But you wear it well.

What was an amazing man. So sad he passed so tragically. RIP Lt. Dengler♥️🇺🇸🙏✝️

oh my!!! just like Robin Wiiliams. also a brave action. a hero all the way. . . 🌷🌱

I’m sorry about how he ended his life, may he RIP.

@museack Its was a secret bombing mission over Laos

@museack okay there internet comment scientist calm your boobies

Yes and one POW that was left and apparently seen in the 80s still there (name escapes me) has had many documentaries made of him and his family and the Covert missions in Laos came with warnings of if captured, can’t be rescued from a Laos POW prison. He knew he had to escape. That said can he was still rescued so don’t know if that was entirely true or if the documentaries took liberties. His uniform was bare and stripped of ID as well.

Not to be rude, but do you have any stories to share he told you? Thx a lot!!!

Yeah she was beautiful!

Holy cow, try the decaf!

@museack I'm a bleeding liberal. What does your statement have to do with anything?

it was such a time

An obvious woman hater

Actually very odd for the time and shows he was in the military Most men of the time would say yes ma'am not not yes sir.

STFU

HE DID SURVIVE!!! what sort if statement is that to say about another brave soldier!!!!!!🙄😐

John McCain had the opportunity to be freed in a prisoner exchange but he refused to leave before the other American prisoners in the camp. A true American hero!

John McCain's military career was not as heroic as many believe. Google his military career, many first hand stories to be read about his exploits in Viet Nam

@@dorinehagarman2444 He was heroic when it mattered to the lives of young American POWs who were drafted into a war they should not have been fighting! He, in that instance, rose to the occasion. I worked in Vietnam after the Americans left and actually met a few veterans who were imprisoned with him who worked on relief programs there after the war as therapeutic PTS work. He found a calling in that camp.

Fuck you

They are both heroes, the ones who are caught and do not squeal and the ones who do not get caught. The circumstances of every hero are determined by G-d. Do not be an arrogant SOB by assuming that the likes of you would never get captured.

You must be a complete idiot to have made such a disrespectful remark; Get a life fool…