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Lost in Shangri-La
:''This is about the book. For event see 1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue''
''Lost in Shangri-La'' (2011) is a non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors.〔Mitchell Zuckoff. ''Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II'', Harper (April 26, 2011). ISBN 978-0-06-198834-9〕 Because it involved a female WAC Corporal lost in the jungle with "savages", the public became keenly interested in following the story.〔 It was written about in the November 1945 issue of ''Reader's Digest'' magazine, and many other press channels. In 2011 Zuckoff published a modern retelling based on interviews with surviving Americans and New Guineans, and other previously unpublished information.〔
==Background==
The airplane started from Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea (today in Indonesia) as a pleasure flight over a remote valley in New Guinea with 24 passengers, but only three people survived the crash: WAC corporal Margaret Hastings, sergeant Kenneth Decker and lieutenant John McCollom. They were later rescued by paratroopers who carried them out in gliders.
The name "Shangri-La" was given by the press, lifted from the 1933 novel ''Lost Horizon''. The "Gremlin" in the plane's name was borrowed from the myth of Gremlins, which are often associated to mishaps and mechanical troubles of airplanes.
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