"Shangri-La" Valley Rescue. At left - Captain Cecil Walters, Commanding Officer of the Filipino paratroops which were drooped into "Shangri-La" Valley to prepare a runway for the rescue gliders and Lieut. John McCollom, one of the male survivors of the service plane which crashed on May 13, 1945, communicating with one of the supply planes which flew over the valley daily. They are standing outside the camp in which the marooned party lived in the valley. December 21, 1949. (Photo by Netherlands Indies Government Information Service).