1952 VISIT

To read about this visit to the West in 1952 by Meher Baba visit the following web-page -

"Events 1952 Visit "

This visit consists of 7 web-pages.

* USA visit - * New York visit - * Myrtle Beach visit - * Prague, Oklahoma visit

* England visit

* European visit

* Overseas visits

The following is the final leg of Meher Baba's visit to the West in 1952.

22nd August : Arrive Marseille, France at 1am, depart 2am ( Air France Flight 180 )

Arrive Beirut Airport, Lebanon at 9am, depart 11am

22nd August : Arrive Karachi Airport, Pakistan at 9pm. They stayed the night at the airport.

23rd August : Depart 12:30pm ( afternoon ) by Scindia Air Services No.3

Arrive Bhuj, India at 2:30pm, depart 3pm

Arrive Jamnagar, India at 3:40pm, depart 4pm

Arrive Bombay Airport at 6:10pm. Driven straight to Meherazad, India.

Arrive Meherazad 1:30 am.

1952 : Detailed Eastward plane routes returning from the USA to London, Europe & Middle East, heading to India. Map graphics by Anthony Zois

Map 1 : 1952 - Detail of the road & plane routes from Switzerland to Beirut, Lebanon. Map graphics by Anthony Zois.

1956 VISIT

July 17, 1956

That same night at midnight, Baba, with Eruch, Nilu, Adi Srn and Meherjee, flew from Santa Cruz airport on Air India Flight No. 103 (economy class). On the way to London, the plane stopped for about an hour each at Damascus in Syria and Beirut, Lebanon. By the afternoon they arrived at Kloten airport in Zurich, where Baba met about thirty-five Europeans.

Lord Meher Volume 14, Page 4938

Washington : ( L-R ) Meherjee Karkaria, Eruch Jessawala, Meher Baba, Adi K. Irani, Nilu Godse

In Mid July 1956 Meher Baba and four of his men mandali ( close ones ) departed on a months circumnavigation of the globe. They departed Bombay ( Mumbai ) by plane landing briefly at Damascus and Beirut Airports then onto Zurich and London. They then flew to New York NY, Richmond V.,Wilmington NC, Myrtle Beach SC, Washington DC., Dallas/Ft. Worth TX, Los Angeles-Meher Mount-Ojai-San Francisco CA., then to Honolulu, (Hawaii Is ), Kroton Is, Suva,( Fiji ), Sydney & Melbourne, Australia, then onto Singapore and back to Bombay in mid August.

( L-R ) Unknowns, Anita De Caro ( white coat ),?, Fred Marks, Meher Baba, Eruch Jessawala ( behind Baba ), Ann Powell, Adi K. Irani, William Backett, Mary Backett, Molly Eve ( dark glasses ), ?, Delia De Leon ( front ), Huma "Homa" Dadachanji ( holding bag ).