Australians at War Film Archive : Oral history collection ➔ Frank McGovern, Interviewed by Isabel Fox & Christopher Houghton, 08.05.2003 : Oral history
(AAWFA 001.019)
As an able seaman on the guns on HMAS Perth, Frank McGovern was in the thick of it the night his ship was torpedoed by the Japanese in WW2. With other survivors, he was picked up by the enemy and sent to a POW camp in Java. Transported by the Japanese to Japan, he was torpedoed again, this time b...