Group. No. 6 Squadron personnel in front of a US Navy Catalina, believed to be at RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji.
Original negative register states "Flight Lieutenant Hitchcock's crew" with the date recorded here, however a print in the collection records "Tonga detached flight, October 1943."
Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection.
No. 6 Squadron Catalina with five Dumbo operation marks. Believed to be at Halavo Bay, Florida Island (now Solomon Islands).
Handwritten on the reverse Catalina showing dumbos. Halavo Bay. Solomons. Mick Slayt."
Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection.
Two service men standing under the nose of No. 6 Squadron Catalina XX-U. Halavo Bay, Florida Island (now Solomon Islands).
Handwritten on the reverse "Halavo Bay / Mick Slayt."
The first RNZAF Catalina in New Zealand. No. 6 Squadron crew pose with their aircraft at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
L-R: Standing at back; Flight Lieutenant KH Day, Flying Officer TD Brewer.
Standing in cockpit; Squadron Leader RBL MacGregor (Flight Commander), Wing Commander GG Stead (Commanding Officer).
4x unknown at front right.
See PR2932 for a better copy.
Group of RNZAF personnel beside No. 6 Squadron Catalina NZ4001 XX-A. RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji.
From right: Group Captain MF Calder, Air Commodore S Wallingford and The Governor General, Sir Cyril Newall.
Note the aircraft windows have been 'masked' for painting.
Grave marker of Flight Sergeant William Ramsay Cowan, NZ401038. Died in No. 6 Squadron Catalina NZ4002 crash 23 September 1943.
All on board died but was the only body recovered.
Original RNZAF negative deteriorating resulting in poor image quality.
The first RNZAF Catalina in New Zealand. No. 6 Squadron crew pose with their aircraft at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
L-R: Standing at back; Flight Lieutenant KH Day, Flying Officer TD Brewer.
Standing in cockpit; Squadron Leader RBL MacGregor (Flight Commander), Wing Commander GG Stead (Commanding Officer).
4x unknown at front right.
Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection.
Catalina moored, framed with palm trees. Emirau.
Handwritten on the reverse "Seaplane Base, Emirau. RNZAF No. 6 Flying Boat Squadron (detached flight)"
USAAF Beechcraft and No. 6 Squadron Hinds. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Milson, Palmerston North.
Hinds from front: NZ1544 XX-Y, NZ1545 XX-A, NZ1546.
Air gunner in the blister turret of a No. 6 Squadron (?) Catalina, accompanied by photographer, Noel Stanley Williams with an F24 camera. RNZAF Station Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji.
'4008' (aircraft NZ4008?) stencilled on armour plate.
RNZAF personnel loading supplies into No. 6 Squadron Catalina NZ4007 XX-F from a launch. RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji.
Joins with PR2468 to form a panorama.
