Word: ovamboland
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...this disappointment was added deeper sorrow when Father Schulte learned of the fate which had overtaken a fellow Oblate, Rev. Otto Fuhrmann with whom he had been inseparable in the flying corps, in whose company he had entered the priesthood. Father Fuhrmann had died of a tropical disease in Ovamboland, South-West Africa after vainly at tempting to reach a hospital by caravan through the jungle. At once Father Schulte volunteered to take his comrade's place. Privately he decided Father Fuhrmann's life could have been saved had an airplane been available to transport him over, instead...