Little Dieter Needs to Fly

00:00:30 -Come on in. -Nice to see you. -Yeah, good seeing you.

00:05:08 I needed to find some kind of canyon.

00:07:44 and...yeah, I was just running along down this trail.

00:11:02 And that's not a thing I want to be, and I don't think of myself as a hero.

00:14:54 because his dream of being a pilot had never died.

00:17:14 I signed up, two hours later I was in San Antonio, Texas. They cut my hair off.

00:21:48 this, this thick tree off and of course then the left wing went back.

00:24:57 and someone yelled: (???) I turned to the right.

00:27:41 Then when the sleeping time came I would lay down. A guard would be on my right

00:30:13 came across the circle, walked towards me. He had his rifle in his hand.

00:32:34 But many, many years before, during the Nazi time, it was a different story.

00:36:06 So, all survival meant survival in Russia and Siberia.

00:40:21 Even though later on I was kept in a Pathet Lao camp

00:42:43 He nodded to me, we turned around, we walked off.

00:46:08 As far as food, they themselves were very poor. At the beginning we were given

00:48:33 To float down the river to the Mekong

00:51:15 I stripped my blocks, I let myself to the floor. I was underneath my hut now.

00:53:48 Only the river was much higher because of the monsoon rains.

00:56:41 But we never reached it.

00:58:55 But then we had to move on because we were starving to death.

01:02:36 My God, he'll be surprised. How long did it take to cook that thing?

01:04:58 I really wasn't sure what it was...

01:07:15 They were taking off because the Vietcongs, they were shooting up at them.

01:10:20 Farcas, Lizard. They all were there. Tears were rolling...hugging.