Guy Gruters

Captain Guy Dennis Gruters was a United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot best known for his survival for over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was one of the five hundred and ninetyone surviving POWs of all military services released in 1973 for return to the United States during Operation Homecoming.

Guy Gruters was born in 1942 in Sarasota, Florida, but raised in New Jersey, where he spent his childhood trapping muskrat, camping, hunting and Scouting . He won acceptance to the United States Air Force Academy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science in 1964. He then went on to Purdue University and completed a Master of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering in less than one year, in 1965.

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