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Little Dieter Needs To Fly

1997, Movie, NR, 80 mins

Little Dieter Needs To Fly: Review

Even without director Werner Herzog's input, U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler has quite a tale to tell. As a small boy in Wildberg, Germany, Dengler saw Allied aircraft bomb his idyllic Black Forest village halfway to oblivion. Far from traumatizing little Dieter, the experience awoke in him a lifelong passion for flying that would lead Dengler first to the United States Navy and then, in 1966, to the war in Southeast Asia. Two hours into his very first combat mission, Dengler... read more leave a comment