"My Little Girl" was the nickname for a USAF DC-3 spy plane which carried Carl Austin to his death in southern Russia, 2 miles from the Chinese border. In February 1945, the plane was delivering the text of a secret agreement between the Nationalist Chinese government and the Soviet Union. Carl's son, Steve, was sent to retrieve those documents from the plane after a routine weather satellite photo picked up the wreckage. It was feared that if the Communist Chinese government found the plane, the tense peace between the two Communist superpowers might crumble.