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Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
3/4 front view of a USAAF Mitchell '215', believed to be at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "US Mitchell"
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
Five RNZAF servicemen pose with a 'Cactus Stove', Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "Taken just outside our hut showing the oil burner we use for boiling clothes & scratching a feed together occasionally. The chap at the back is [unreadable] Pickering in case you mistake him for our little xxxx boy."
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
Group of local women and children. Unknown location on Bougainville.
Most of the children are smoking cigarettes.
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
Stored bombs and trolleys with bombs at Piva, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "Bomb Dump Piva airstrip | Bougainville."
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
View from the control tower of a Dakota taking off from Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "C.47 taking off from Piva airstrip | Bougainville | 13/7/45."
Image from the Neville Forsyth Harston personal collection.
NF Harston (left) and another officer holding cameras, sitting at a cafe (?) table. Unknown location.
Image from the Neville Forsyth Harston personal collection.
Group of Army and Air Force officers. Unknown location.
The man at centre is believed to be the Duke of York.
Handwritten on the reverse "Is the young officer carrying the white bag the future George VI (Duke of York)? Uncle Neville said that he had met the Duke."
