John Corbett Glover

World War II Following Prime Minister John Curtin's declaration of war with Japan on 8 December 1941, hundreds of civilians were evacuated from across Papua New Guinea. Glover joined the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles at Wau on 14 February 1942,

After the town of Wau and Glover's church had been strafed by Japanese Zeros, he helped to evacuate Europeans from the Markham Valley, including some people from Manus Island and survivors of the massacres in New Britain. He flew people to Port Moresby via Wau in a rebuilt Spartan two-seater. As time went on, this route became too dangerous, so they hid the plane in the gardens of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission Headquarters at Kainantu, They worked on the Moth for a week, attaching an auxiliary fuel tank made from scrap galvanised iron to the existing tank with a piece of salvaged copper tube. Nagy planned to sit in the back nursing a bed pan full of extra fuel to be transferred to the main fuel tank with a large enema syringe as needed. The first attempt at reaching Mt. Hagen failed, but, after some further modifications to the Moth, their second attempt succeeded.

They left Mt. Hagen on 28 March and crossed the mountains to the southern coast, where they were forced to land on a beach west of Daru due to bad weather. They were rowed to Thursday Island by locals. while continuing to work as a "flying missionary" in Madang.

Glover died on 1 January 1949 when his Dragon crashed during landing near the Mission in Mingende.