Trapped

Episode 5 - A light out to sea

Episode 5: A light out to sea

Interviewees

  • Len Bourke
  • Clyde Pappin

Actors

  • Jono Burns
  • Sam Loy
  • Jacob Phillip
  • Zane Ellenwood  
  • David Khoirul
  • Jamie Collette
  • David Pruden
  • Davey Wallace
  • Ben Righetti
  • Tim Duncan

Sources

  • Report of an interview with Flight Lieutenant Bryan Rofe, Meteorological Officer, formerly with RAAF Detachment at Penfuei [sic], at Hollywood Hospital, Perth and a letter of 29 April 1942’, NAA A9695, 403.
  • ‘Report on R.A.A.F. Party Left at
  • Koepang, Timor’, From Flight Lieutenant Rofe to AOC, NWA H
  • Obituary Ronald Jellicoe Bell, posted by the Rose Society of Victoria
  • ‘Report of interview at Hollywood Hospital, Perth with Flight Lieutenant H. O. Cook’, NAA A9695, 405
  • ‘Escape from Timor by submarine – interview with Pilot Officer Charles Gibbs, 4th Repair and Salvage Unit’, NAA A9695, 408.
  • ‘North Western Area Brief – personal diary of Sergeant Holloway (Service Number 11093)
  • ‘Escape from Timor by submarine – interview with Pilot Officer Charles Gibbs, 4th Repair and Salvage Unit’, NAA A9695, 408
  • War Crimes – Military Tribunal: Unit – Imperial Japanese Navy: Date and Place of Tribunal – Manus, 18 January–8 March 1951’
  • Submarines, United States Asiatic Fleet, Logbook, ‘USS Searaven (SS196) Report of Third War Patrol’, period from 2 April 1942 to
  • 25 April 1942, p. 4
  • Bryan Rofe diary
  • Len Bourke diary
  • Letters Bryan Rofe, Patricia Whitford – Rofe family collection
  • Colin Humphris “Trapped On Timor,” Adelaide, 1990
  • Interview Len Bourke
  • Inteview Clyde Pappin
  • Interview Edmund Park
  • Interview Dr Attupah, Timor
  • Trumble, Tom, “Rescue at 2100 Hours”, Penguin, Melbourne, 2013
  • McGrievy, Joseph, ‘Rescue from Timor Island . . .’, Submarine National Review, April–June 1992
  • Flying Officer E. W. Tipping, ‘Return to Timor’, in Victory Roll
  • War crimes – Execution of approximately 24 Allied personnel at Deba village near Koepang’ – Sworn Statement – Yamabe Masao, NAA MP742/1,
  • ‘War crimes – Execution of approximately 24 Allied personnel at Deba village near Koepang – Statement by Jermias Koanfora – Chief of Pariti Village’

Producers

  • Sam Loy
  • James Milsom
  • Ryan Pemberton

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