We hope you like bad news, because this one's chock full of it! Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and after his plane was shot down,  endured six months of imprisonment and torture in the dense Vietnamese jungle. Those six months were full of impossibly hard times and heart break but Dieter persisted and  became the first captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity during the war.