Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Two service men standing beside the damaged wing of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Not broken, just bent."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudson taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Off on dawn patrol."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing."
All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing."
All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Personnel queueing outside the mess building. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)", "The "Chow House" (note concrete roads)" and "This was where we were camped with the 14th Marine Air Group & was only 800 yds from the front line, when we first got there."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Hospital Nissen hut among the trees. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "The hospital in our camp (note the hygenic[sic] conditions."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
RNZAF Tented camp among the trees. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "General view of our camp from the road."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Another view, looking towards our jungle home."
Handwritten on the reverse "Camp was in jungle behind at top of hill."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron maintenance personnel on the back of a truck. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Off to work."
Handwritten on the reverse "Our transport to airfield from camp at Guadalcanal."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Some of the boys with a few natives, in camp."
Handwritten on the reverse "Jim Stewart & Bob Kennedy & some natives at Guadalcanal.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Informal group of service men in front of a tent. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "More of the gang in our camp."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and " "The Hangar"."
Handwritten on the reverse "Just an open area cut out of the jungle. 1942."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallilulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of our kites' on the strip taken from camp entrance."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Personnel from Squadron working on the port engine of a Hudson. Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of the boys at work??"
NB. Although this is on a page headed up "New Hebrides" the reverse of the print states Guadalcanal.
Private AJ Rangi, from No. 3 Squadron, talking on a field radio controlling helicopters during No. 75 Squadron Exercise Waltz Time at Kaikohe and Kerikeri.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Three No. 3 Squadron Iroquois taking off in formation from Nelson airport.
L-R: NZ3801, NZ3802, unknown.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Three No. 3 Squadron Sioux in early morning mist at Nelson airport.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Airman scraping ice from the windscreen of a N0. 3 Squadron Iroquois.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Corporal Card checking the tail rotor of a No. 3 Squadron Iroquois.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Leading Aircraftman Christophersen checking the main rotor on a No. 3 Squadron Iroquois at Nelson airport.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Aircraftman Webb, Aircraftman Nicholas and Aircraftman Wilce peeling potatoes at Nelson airport.
