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A team of World War II airmen set out in their B-24 bomber in 1944 on what
should have been an easy mission off the Burma coast. Instead, they found
themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet and were shot down across the
Burma’s mountainous interior. A group of loincloth-wearing natives silently
materialized out of the jungle and confronted the airmen.
The tribal leaders’ unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-
seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual---head hunting.
This is a survival story that has never before been fully told, and a gripping journey
into the remote world of interior Burma.
should have been an easy mission off the Burma coast. Instead, they found
themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet and were shot down across the
Burma’s mountainous interior. A group of loincloth-wearing natives silently
materialized out of the jungle and confronted the airmen.
The tribal leaders’ unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-
seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual---head hunting.
This is a survival story that has never before been fully told, and a gripping journey
into the remote world of interior Burma.
| (non-fiction) |
| The Airmen and the Head Hunters by Judith M. Heimann Harcourt Books, NY 2007 |
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