Clint Eastwood - The True Amazing Sampson Story - Wait to you Hear the Ending

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A true story about a boy nicknamed Sampson, who was an 18-year-old dropout that was living with his family in Seattle Washington when he found out that he had been drafted.

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“Stark terror” was the emotion Clint Eastwood experienced more than six decades ago when he almost died during a plane crash, he said March 11.

“What was going through my mind was just a stark fear, a stark terror, because in the first place, I didn’t know anything about aviation at that particular time — I was just hopping a ride,” he noted, recalling the time he hitched a ride on a bomber plane while doing his military service in the early 1950s.

“In those days, you could wear your uniform and get a free flight,” he continued.

“On the way back, they had one plane, a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage, and I thought I’d hitch on that. Everything went wrong. Radios went out. Oxygen ran out. And finally, we ran out of fuel up around Point Reyes, California, and went in the ocean. So, we went swimming. It was late October, November. Very cold water. I found out many years later that it was a white shark breeding ground, but I’m glad I didn’t know that at the time, or I’d have just died.”

Amazing story. Watch the whole video for all the incredible details.

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