10,000 Feet. 0 Parachute. 1 Survivor. She Woke Up in a Ditch.

On January 4, 1943, a U.S. Army transport plane carrying 21 people — including 13 Army nurses — was shot down over Lae, New Guinea.

One nurse survived: First Lieutenant Elsie Ott, who regained consciousness in a ditch, severely wounded.

She had no radio. No supplies. No idea where she was.

She located the wreckage and spent two days trying to treat other survivors before realizing she was alone.

She was eventually found by Australian forces and carried out through the jungle.

She became the first woman to receive the Air Medal in U.S. military history — for a mission she hadn't volunteered for and a crash she was lucky to survive.

For decades, the wreckage of the plane and the remaining 20 people aboard was not officially recovered.

Some of those remains were identified only in the 2010s using DNA technology.

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