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 Date:	97-03-03 22:32:42 EST
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 .c The Associated Press
 
       By RANJAN ROY
       NEW DELHI, India (AP) - A rusted watch, a cigarette lighter and
 bits of metal led a hunter deep in the Burmese jungle to the
 wreckage of a Canadian air force plane that disappeared during
 World War II.
       Now, relatives of the six men who disappeared on June 21, 1945,
 finally are burying their loved ones' remains, putting an end to
 the mystery of what happened to the men.
       ``It's actually quite a shock. To be jerked back,'' said Elinor
 Brown, who stopped in New Delhi on Monday with other relatives on
 their way to the military funeral in Burma.
       The plane had been on a supply mission, carrying rice from an
 Allied base in northern India to troops in Burma.
       Allied authorities gave up searching for it soon after the
 disappearance. But the search resumed in 1990 when a Burmese hunter
 reported seeing wreckage in the jungles.
       He retrieved a watch with ``W. Kyle'' and ``R 199712'' etched on
 the back.
       The hunter gave the watch to a Christian missionary, who found
 someone who knew that the `R' was a mark of the Royal Canadian Air
 Force.
       Veterans' organizations searched through lists of missing World
 War II officers and came up with the name of William Kyle. The
 others aboard were Peter Brown, Stanley Cox, David Cameron, William
 Rogers and Cornelius Kopp. All were in their early 20s.
       In November, Canadian officials traveled to Burma to arrange for
 the remains to be taken to Rangoon, Burma's capital, for the
 funeral scheduled Wednesday.
       The remains found near the wreckage were impossible to identify,
 so Canadian officials have put them into one casket for the burial.
 There will, however, be six headstones at the Taukkyan Cemetery
 near Rangoon.
       AP-NY-03-03-97 1709EST
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