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Show American Airman Hikes 200 Miles in Jungle CALCUTTA. Capt. Wynn D. Miller Mil-ler of Columbia, Mo., has reached Calcutta after hiking 200 miles through the jungles of Burma to escape Japanese troops, into whose territory he had parachuted when his engine failed. Miller, a pursuit pilot, pi-lot, was escorting a flight of bombers bomb-ers on a raid on Japanese-held Man-, Man-, dalay on December 7. "When I came out of the clouds all I could see below was dense jungle," he related. "I dropped through the trees without a scratch and landed flat on my back. I wasn't hurt a bit, and the greatest break of all was that I landed right on a trail leading to the Indian frontier." fron-tier." Then began a hike that lasted for 18 days. |