It’s 1945.  The War is winding down, but there are still bases, well, everywhere, including in New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.  Because New Guinea is not the most exciting place to be, they host occasional morale-boosting airplane tours to “Shangri-la”–an untouched, pristine, and gorgeous valley in the middle of rugged, inhospitable mountains (on a rugged, inhospitable island), just recently discovered.  In May, a plane carrying 24 soldiers and members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), crashed en route to Shangri-la.  Only three survived.  They have to […]