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The WWII rescue that shouldn’t have worked

During World War II, a US Army transport plane crashed deep in the jungles of New Guinea, stranding survivors in terrain with no roads, no runways, and no clear way out. What followed was an ...
In 1944, RAAF pilot Jim Mitchell took to the skies over Dutch New Guinea - one of the most dangerous theaters of World War II. His story, written decades later by his grandson, captures the tension, ...