17 Days to Freedom
July 4, 1966 Day 5: As the POWs ascended up the mountainous divide, they entered an inhospitable world of no sun or sky visible through the green ceiling, and walls of trees and vines blocking their...
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Day 6: In the morning, Dieter and Duane awoke sore, sick and dispirited. Still retracing their steps, they were not paying much attention to where they were going; as a result, Duane nearly walked into...
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Day 8: On their journey the next day, they went through forests of vines and over steep rocky overhangs. Dieter was in the lead when he saw something move in front of them. About five feet away was a...
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Day 9: In their travels that day, Dieter and Duane found the jungle too dense to get through and the streams so clouded from all the rain that they couldn’t see the bottom and kept tripping. They had...
View ArticleRescue at Dawn
July 20, 1966: Forty-five years ago today, Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was rescued by an Air Force helicopter after a 21-day trek through the jungle following his dramatic escape from a POW camp in the...
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46 years ago…Shootdown over Laos
On February 1, 1966, Navy pilot Dieter Dengler, my friend and shipmate, was shot down over Laos. Pictured here, his A-1 Skyraider, call sign Electron 504, on the flight deck of our carrier, USS Ranger,...
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Memorial Day 2012
During this holiday that has come to signify the beginning of summer celebrated with days off from work, a famous road race and backyard barbecues, let us remember the real meaning of Memorial Day: to...
View ArticleMilitary Channel’s “An Officer and a Movie”
Bruce Henderson appears Saturday (6/1/13) on the Military Channel’s “An Officer and a Movie,” 8 pm EST. Bruce is in-studio in Washington DC with the host, actor Lou Diamond Phillips, watching the...
View ArticleDOWN TO THE SEA reader
From John Riise in Lake Isabella, California: “Just read your book DOWN TO THE SEA and was compelled to scribble a few lines. My father was in Halsey’s Typhoon. He was aboard the light carrier...
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TRACE EVIDENCE
“A roadside strangler confounds California detectives in this tense and gritty true-crime account from Bruce Henderson ( #1 New York Times bestseller And the Sea Will Tell). With novelistic urgency,...
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