Comments on: Dieter Dengler's Great Escape from Laotian POW Camp http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 03:21:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gary http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-821180 Gary Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:38:15 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-821180 Good work, Leo! No telling how many lives of the GI's on the ground you may have saved. I only hope that you were able to have more successful missions after this one. When the enemy is dead, there is no more war. Hand salute, Sir! Good work, Leo! No telling how many lives of the GI's on the ground you may have saved. I only hope that you were able to have more successful missions after this one. When the enemy is dead, there is no more war. Hand salute, Sir!

]]> By: ekim025 http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-788950 ekim025 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:57 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-788950 For zach & miso11 If you two clowns want to write warm fuzzy entries do so, however do not tell others what to do. If you were not there and did not contribute, find another venue to voice your whimsy emotions. Obviously you really like to read the stuff or you wouldn't be commenting on it! For zach & miso11 If you two clowns want to write warm fuzzy entries do so, however do not tell others what to do. If you were not there and did not contribute, find another venue to voice your whimsy emotions.
Obviously you really like to read the stuff or you wouldn't be commenting on it!

]]> By: miso11 http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-492575 miso11 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:53:59 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-492575 Yeah Leo, please don't post anything like that because everyone knows war in reality is pretty & in the end everyone picks up & goes home. Yeah Leo, please don't post anything like that because everyone knows war in reality is pretty & in the end everyone picks up & goes home.

]]> By: Brenda Wayne Wyatt http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-457613 Brenda Wayne Wyatt Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:44:15 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-457613 I read the book. Was a great story of bravery and wits. Thes guys were the bomb. Brenda Wayne Wyat I read the book. Was a great story of bravery and wits. Thes guys were the bomb.
Brenda Wayne Wyat

]]> By: zach http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-440738 zach Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:10:16 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-440738 Wow...dont post anything ever again Wow…dont post anything ever again

]]> By: Leo Canavan http://www.historynet.com/dieter-denglers-great-escape-from-laotian-pow-camp.htm#comment-332995 Leo Canavan Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:48:20 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682543#comment-332995 I believe it was in March of '65 while flying F-100Ds out of Danang. We were called by a FAC and told that just N of the border in a cove, NVA troops were loading boats to slip into SVN South of Danang. I was full of 20MM and starting to salavate. "Heeb" was on the wing and we headed for the cove. We spotted it about 5 miles N into N Veitnam. There was a 80ft boat headed out with about 100 or so troops standing on it. I armed the guns and rolled in on them with about a 10deg dive, put the pipper on the front and pulled the trigger the 4 M-39s started at the bow and went thru all the soldiers. The 20MM HEI ripped thru them and pieces of bodies was flying up in the air. I pulled around for another pass and noticed that the boat was now turned sideways in the surf. There were about 200 or so soldiers on the beach and I strung the HEI thru them. Later I wondered why after the first pass they hadn't all run up from the beach. I believe "Heeb" Freedman and I killed at least 250 NVA Soldiers. The gun camera film was great and was taken away from me and I was told that it went to Johnson as they hadn't seen NVA soldiers kiilled. This was color film and a small stream running down the beach was running red with their blood. This storey goes on a little, but this was a really good one. Luv Leo I believe it was in March of '65 while flying F-100Ds out of Danang.

We were called by a FAC and told that just N of the border in a cove, NVA troops were loading boats to slip into SVN South of Danang.

I was full of 20MM and starting to salavate. "Heeb" was on the wing and we headed for the cove. We spotted it about 5 miles N into N Veitnam.

There was a 80ft boat headed out with about 100 or so troops standing on it. I armed the guns and rolled in on them with about a 10deg dive, put the pipper on the front and pulled the trigger the 4 M-39s started at the bow and went thru all the soldiers. The 20MM HEI ripped thru them and pieces
of bodies was flying up in the air. I pulled around for another pass and noticed that the boat was now turned sideways in the surf. There were about 200 or so soldiers on the beach and I strung the HEI thru them.
Later I wondered why after the first pass they hadn't all run up from the beach. I believe "Heeb" Freedman and I killed at least 250 NVA Soldiers.
The gun camera film was great and was taken away from me and I was told that it went to Johnson as they hadn't seen NVA soldiers kiilled.
This was color film and a small stream running down the beach was running red with their blood.

This storey goes on a little, but this was a really good one.

Luv

Leo

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