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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 February 1942Vol. XII, No. 7

Ng Airman Killed

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

In this group, on the left, is the late Mr. Kevin Parer, who was killed by bullets from a Japan ese plane, which flew low and machine-gunned the Salamaua region, when Mr. Parer was trying to start up his plane. A couple of weeks before this, Mr. Parer flew his wife and three children to Australia and they now are living at Warwick, Queensland. On the right of the photograph is Mr. T. O’Dea, general manager of Guinea Airways Ltd. in New Guinea, who suc ceeded in getting his company’s three biggest planes away to safety when the Japanese attacked Lae on January 21.