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The survivors were Corporal Margaret Hastings, Sergeant Kenneth Decker and Lieutenant John McCollom. [ 5 ] The Baliem Valley was previously explored in 1938 by Richard Archbold , flying in a PBY-2 .
The airplane started from Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea (at the time part of Netherlands Indies, nowadays 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.
The WAC Corporal was the first sounding rocket developed in the United States and the first vehicle to achieve hypersonic speeds. [1] It was an offshoot of the Corporal program, that was started by a partnership between the United States Army Ordnance Corps and the California Institute of Technology (named "ORDCIT") in June 1944 with the ultimate goal of developing a military ballistic missile.
Margaret Hastings was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on May 23, 1910. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1931 and then took her master's degree and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1932 and 1939 respectively. Hastings taught in private schools from 1935 to 1944 and was then a research analyst of the U.S. Army for the rest ...
WAC Air Controller painting by Dan V. Smith, 1943. The Women's Army Corps (WAC; / w æ k /) was the women's branch of the United States Army before 1978. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), on 15 May 1942, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on 1 July 1943.
Title: Korporaal Margaret Hastings met pijl en boog in de Baliemvallei Author/creator: Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (Melbourne) Shelfmark: KITLV 113765 Subject (topical): American Military Women Subject (geographic): Dani Pegunungan Jayawijaya Note: Depicted: Hastings, M. Shangri-La valley rescue.
Private Ruth L. James at the gates of the battalion's facility in Rouen during a 1945 "open house" attended by hundreds of other African American soldiers Second Lieutenant Freda le Beau serving Major Charity Adams a soda at the opening of the battalion's snack bar in Rouen 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion African-American WACs, Hull & Cambridge, England, 04/14/1945
WAAC cooks prepare dinner for the first time in new kitchen at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.", 12 May 1942 – NARA – 531152. The 32nd and 33rd Post Headquarters Companies started out as Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). [4]