77 - Surviving the Jungle. Lorentz National Park.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In 1945 a sightseeing tour plane carrying American military personnel crashed into the western New Guinea jungle. The survivors spent the next several weeks trying to survive the harsh elements in a land that they knew very little about. They weren't alone though, they had landed right in the middle of indigenous tribal territory, people who they knew to be cannibalistic and violent. In this struggle for survival, they'll have to open their hearts and minds to people who are foreign to them if they want to make it out alive.

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Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zukoff , History Net, Pacific Wrecks, YouTube

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0:00.0	World War II was a war that affected the globe.
0:08.8	It began when Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland and gained control of much of
0:14.4	Europe, and it grew around the world when Japan tried to take over Asia and the Pacific.
0:21.2	Mass casualties were lost, and people around the planet were affected.
0:26.5	Hitler has historically served as a catalyst for war.
0:30.6	Fear of the unknown, fear of the loss of power and control, fear of the practices of other
0:36.8	people.
0:38.7	As quoted by Andrew Smith, people fear what they don't understand and hate what they
0:44.1	can't conquer.
0:46.0	But not everything in World War II was hate and violence.
0:50.1	People in the masses formed together to save the oppressed people, many risked their
0:54.8	lives' brothers, aided them and food, shelter, and more.
1:00.3	And one story that erupted during World War II had nothing to do with the war itself.
1:07.1	But instead, a plane crash, when military members found themselves stranded, alone, injured
1:13.5	and on the verge of death, a society they not only feared, but also didn't understand,
1:20.2	was their only chance of survival.
1:23.4	Welcome to National Park After Dark.
1:26.6	A plane crash you say.
1:46.9	I'm doing it.
1:47.9	I'm doing a plane crash episode.
1:49.9	Wow, I'm stunned.
1:51.3	I am floored, actually.
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