Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1965Vol. 36, No. 8

Plane Crash

p. 149 · Read in the full issue

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Two Dead In Plane Crash

Father Joe Wallachy, well own Catholic priest in P-NG, d Father Joseph Bayer, 'gional Superior for the Divine ord Mission, were both killed a light plane flown by Fr. illachy, which crashed on a *ht from Madang to the stern Highlands on June 28.

Seventeen aircraft with 200 servers flying in relays from idang, took part in a search • the aircraft after it was sorted missing. Both men had d instantly.

Father Wallachy, an Ameri i, entered the priesthood in US in 1943 and served in r as chaplain to the US forces "ing the war. Afterwards he s assistant parish priest at mswick, Victoria, before re ning to New Guinea as ision pilot.

Te was widely and fondly ywn as “Father Joe ”,

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