- Bib ID:
- 3427804
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Glover, John Corbett, 1909-1948
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- 1936-1942
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1233.
- Summary:
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Memoir by Fr Glover of his flying experiences in New Guinea, mainly during the Pacific War, Ts., p/c, 27pp, annotated. Includes accounts of pre-War air operations in Lae and Wau and of ferrying European civilians from the coast to Kainantu and Mt Hagen to escape the Japanese occupation. Fr Glover also tells the story of his attempted flight with Karl Nagy in a Fox-Moth bi-plane over the Owen Stanley Ranges to Horn Island, off Cape York, to arrange evacuation of the refugees in the Highlands.
A note on the memoir explains that it was found in a clean-up at Mascot, NSW, by John Baker, a former employee of Butler Air Transport, who gave it to A.R.W. (Jim) Hoile, who passed it on to Adrian Leydon, Secretary of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles-ANGAU Association. This microfilm also includes Mr Leydon's research file on Fr Glover consisting of correspondence with the SVD Mission at Mt Hagen and others, published articles and biographical documents, 1989-2003.
- Reproduction:
- Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 1 microfilm reel.
- Subject:
-
- Time Coverage:
- 1936-1942
- Occupation:
- Priests
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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