Mission of Mercy Author:Bernard Palmer Forward — Little publicity has been given to the boys of the Air Transport Command who, throughout the war, performed the monotonously dangerous task of supplying front line troops by air. On the island of New Guinea their work was particularly hazardous for there is only one negotiable pass through the Owen Stanley Mountains and it is shrouded ... more »in mist most of the time. They had to feel their way through the clouds to an altitude of ten thousand feet, then pry their bulky planes through the narrow, cliff-lined pass, braving Jap Zekes and Zeros as they sought no public adulation for their work, and when one of them was downed only his buddies and the folks at home mourned his loss. It is about such men that this story is written.« less