![]() Plans for a daring mission to rescue the trio unfold, involving gliders, a crack paratrooper squad and a heroic cowboy commander. Margaret Hastings is a feisty 30-year-old corporal in the Women's Army Corps. ![]() The third is not your typical action hero. One survivor lost his twin brother in the crash, another has a gaping head wound and severe burns. The survivors find themselves trapped in the jungle, caught between enemy Japanese troops and a tribe of man-eating headhunters. military plane on a sightseeing trip crashes in a remote rainforest in New Guinea, killing all but three of the 24 men and women on board. (CNN) - It's an amazing but largely forgotten tale from the waning days of World War II. You can find out more about him on his website. He is a former special projects reporter for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. ![]() ![]() His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune and other national publications. Editor's note: Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. ![]()
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