How the daring rescue of 3 Army soldiers after a WWII plane crash in 'Shangri-La' unfolded

How the daring rescue of 3 Army soldiers after a WWII plane crash in 'Shangri-La' unfolded

The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing.Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft called the Gremlin Special took off from Sentani Airport near Wamena, New Guinea (in what is now Indonesia) on May 13, 1945. The group, including eight Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers, was to receive a bird’s-eye view of the Baliem Valley, which local pilots had nicknamed …