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Clip #: TFA-387C
Length: 11:53
Year: 1945
Color: B/W
Sound: Sound
Library: TFA Network
Decade: 1940s
Region: South Asia
Country: New Guinea
Subject: Airplanes
Original: 16mm
Keywords:
1940s, Indonesia, New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea, United States Air Force, United States Army Air Corps, Filipino-Americans, Dani people, indigenous people, plane crashes, rescues, aerials mountains and Baliem Valley, ‘Shangri-La’ valley, aerial villages,, journalist and narrator Alexander Cann parachuting from plane, survivors, paratroopers and Dani men walking down from crash site to base camp set up by Filipino paratroopers, survivors Corporal Margaret Hastings, Sergeant Kenneth Decker, Lieutenant John McCollom, Captain Walters, men changing clothes at campsite, Margaret Hastings combing her hair while looking in compact mirror, survivors eating at table, supplies being dropped from plane, paratrooper medics dressing Margaret’s leg burn, survivors interacting and shaking hands with Dani people, Dani Queen shaking hands with Margaret, survivors visiting Dani village, watchtower, huts, survivors talking with Dani people, Dani man combing Margaret’s hair in Dani style, Walt talking on walkie talkie, Margaret learning how to shoot bow and arrow, survivors smoking, Filipino paratroopers preparing traditional Lechon pig roast with pig supplied by Dani people, paratroopers and survivors eating together at outdoor table, Dani men interacting and trading with survivors, parachutes being spread out to outline landing strip for approaching tow plane and glider, glider landing and being pushed around into position, hook made from nylon rope for tow plane being set up, glider loaded with survivors taking off by being pulled by tow plane and flying over Baliem Valley on ascent, aerial Lake Sentani, pilot releasing tow line, glider landing at the U.S. Army station in Hollandia, survivors shaking hands with Filipino paratroopers, Decker, Hastings and McCollom standing together next to plane