By MILES SAMPLE | Stars and Stripes | Published: June 19, 1978 YOKOSUKA NB, Japan Mark Hamill, a shooting star success in the futuristic fantasy film, Star Wars, rode a helicopter instead of a space vehicle Friday and flew straight into the nostalgic past. Hamill was picked up by a Navy chopper in Tokyo and landed near Nile C. Kinnick High School at Yokosuka NB, where he was hailed by Principal Douglas M. Spaulding as the school s most distinguished graduate. Less than a decade after picking up his diploma at Kinnick, Hamill is better known worldwide as Luke Skywalker, the intrepid hero who turns back intergalactic invaders in a film as successful as the 26-year-old actor himself.