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 2-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. Meanwhile, the
Australian military had taken over the Mission station and were using it as a hospital. By early April, groups had begun leaving Kainantu for Mt. Hagen, unaware of whether the flight had been a success. On 13 May, the first rescue planes arrived from Horne Island. ==Post-war==