Word: dengler
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Ants & Water Buffalo. U.S. Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler, 28, was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos last...
...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
Word spread in many an airman's ready room of the fate that could befall the pilot who took a deadly hit from Red gunners. A witness was Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler, 28, whose escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp near Vinh was the first of the war. Dengler was born in Wildberg, West Germany, and came to the U.S. with his brother as a teen-ager in 1957; he joined the Air Force that same year, became a U.S. citizen in 1960, and was commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over...
...Lucky." The savage fate of Dengler's companion was shared by six U.S. Marines wounded in a fierce mor tar barrage near the 17th parallel, where Operation Hastings continued to take a heavy toll of Red dead last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own medical corpsmen, were mercilessly slaughtered by North Vietnamese regulars. "During the night, the North Viets came," said one survivor of the massacre, a radio operator whose abdomen had been ripped by shell fragments. "They took my cigarettes and my watch, but they didn't shoot me. They must have looked...