"Dusty" Miller is a Prisoner

Prisoner

THE report that Flight-Lieutenant George E. Miller (otherwise “Dusty”

Miller), of the RAAF, and formerly one of the most popular young men of Samarai (Papua), had been killed in action, published in the February issue of the “PIM,” is not correct.

We are happy to state that we have been informed by “Dusty” Miller’s father (Mr. G. H. Miller, of 32 Cook Street, Townsville), that the young man is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Not much information has been received, says Mr. Miller, but it appears that Flight- Lieutenant Miller was a member of the crew of a Halifax bcmber which was shot down in flames while on an operational

flight over Nor way. Flight-Lieu tenant Miller landed in the sea without a scratch, and he and his crew were subse quently picked up by the German warship, “Pr i n z Eugene.”

The photograph published herewith was taken when “Dusty” Miller was a Pilot-Officer in England. We also publish a photo graph of “Dusty”

Miller’s mascot, which was painted on his plane, and

which aroused so much interest that a photograph of it was published in the “Daily Sketch,” in London.

PXI3, Gunner Robert J. Wilson, form erly of Port Moresby, was accidentally killed on a troop train in the Middle East, many months ago, when a section of the AIF was being conveyed from Syria to El Alamein, Egypt.

Warrant-Officer E. D. Davis, who pre vious to enlisting was a valued officer of the APC in Papua, recently returned to Port Moresby after a three-months’ fur lough in Australia.

Flight-Lieut. G. E. Miller.

“Dusty” Miller’s Mascot.