[Perseverando]

Just heard about this and recently watched this 1997 documentary on Netflix.

What an incredible story of overcoming obstacles, survival, and perseverance. Talk about PTSD! This movie is a study in survival under horrendous conditions.

I cannot recommend this video highly enough. If you've got Netflix it's a must watch.

[Shark24]

Incredible story. God bless him!

[DesertRhino]

Watched this. If you watch Rescue Dawn first it’s even better. His story in the movie was astonishing. But watching the documentary was unbelievable. he went back to where he was held, retraced his escape route. He met some of the people who were enemy then.
When he hit the Mekong river, his intended goal to cross, and saw the size of it.... you could see by his look how desperate they were.

And then his life back home and the effects of hunger in WWII in Germany, and then in POW camp. Lets just say a prepper will enjoy it.
And a sad ending.

That guy went through so much.

[Gay State Conservative]

Found it on youtube...watched the first few minutes.It's narrated by a German guy who's done all sorts of smug anti death penalty videos.

Would I be wrong to suspect that this smug German (the narrator,not the pilot) takes a rabid anti US,pro North Vietnamese attitude here?

I need to know before I commit to watching the whole thing...I CANNOT STAND the guy who's narrating.

[Signalman]

[Fiji Hill]

I recall the original accounts of the story in the news media in 1966.

[Nicojones]

Thanks for posting this. I just watched it. Excellent documentary. This should be required viewing for all millennial snowflakes. What a hero.