Rescue from "Shangril-La" | #tbt

In today's throwback Thursday photograph, residents of Owego, NY welcome back one of their World War II hometown heroes  – Corporal Margaret Hastings.On May 13, 1945, Cpl. Hastings was on a sightseeing flight over the uncharted jungles of Papua New Guinea, nicknamed “Shangril-La", with twenty-three other service men and women. Her plane crashed violently into the side of a mountain and Hastings was one of only three survivors.Cpl. Hastings and the two other survivors of the crash were finally rescued from the remote jungle valley over a month later on June 28, 1945. The story of Cpl. Hastings' rescue made her a media sensation and she was given a hero's welcome upon her return to Owego.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDeTx8s7ofg Photograph courtesy of the Tioga County Historical Society.