Australian Chevrolet books

[Mike K]

While looking in the red covered GM-H 1940 repair manual, I came across this signature and army service number . He signed his name in a few other pages.

A quick search in the naa system found his records. Archibald Glover was shipped to New Guinea in July 1942, he spent 1 and 1/2 years there . He was transferred to the 158 General Transport Company. His unit was involved in a tragedy in Port Moresby , a B-24 bomber crashed into parked trucks and over 50 people were killed , including members of his unit.

Pic of one of the burnt trucks, an MCP Chevrolet.

The ship he sailed on to New Guinea, the Dutch owned SS Both. https://birtwistlewiki.com.au/wiki/SS_Both

"in 1943 members of 2/33rd Infantry battalion and 158th General Transport Company were waiting at Jackson’s Airfield near Port Moresby, when a B-24 Liberator bomber accidentally crashed among where the 5 trucks were waiting.
62 men were killed and over 90 were injured; 2 men of 158th General Transport Company and 60 from 2/33rd Infantry battalion - a third of the battalion's fatal casualties for the entire war. Eleven members of the American Liberator aircrew also died in the accident."