• MUS060248
    Image from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. No. 18 Squadron pilot AF Tony Hough sitting on a bomb, part of a train of bombs on trolleys, with Corsairs in the background. Unknown Pacific location.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    weapons
    bomb
  • ALB952622029
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie Gower Rose personal photo album. Ron Hermanns standing with a 250lb bomb at RNZAF Station Woodbourne. Handwritten under the print in album "Ron Hermanns Woodie" and handwritten on the page "Woodbourne 2nd Echelon".
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Rose
    Hermanns
    Woodbourne
    bomb
  • 2022-062.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Geoffrey Davis Newlands personal collection. Captured German V1 flying bomb on a Queen Mary trailer at RNZAF Station Wigram.
    RNZAF
    Newlands
    Wigram
    V1
    flying bomb
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Queen Mary
  • PR538
    RNZAF
    Flight Lieutenant AFH Tye DFC checks a bomb fuse with WAAF driver. No. 1 Operational Training Unit, RNZAF Station Ohakea.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Tye
    Women
    WAAF
    No. 1 Operational Training Unit
    1OTU
    Ohakea
    bomb
    weapons
  • 2014-068.8
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ayrton personal collection. Stored bombs and trolleys with bombs at Piva, Bougainville. Handwritten on the reverse "Bomb Dump Piva airstrip | Bougainville."
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Ayrton
    Piva
    Bougainville
    bomb
  • ALB0232217i006
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the No. 14 Squadron album collection. High view of bomb truck MT2067 being lifted onto the flight deck of HMS Glory. In the background are: fuel tanker MT3445 and MT2668, bomb truck MT3452.
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    Navy
    HMS Glory
    aircraft carrier
    Auckland
    fuel
    bomb truck
    MT3445
    MT2668
    MT3452
    MT2067
  • OhG778-83
    RNZAF
    Unknown armourer loading practice bombs onto a No. 14 Squadron Strikemaster at Kaitaia Airport, during Exercise Falcons Roost 17.
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    Strikemaster
    weapons
    bomb
    Kaitaia
    exercise
    Falcons Roost
  • ALB933373026
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RW Russell personal album collection. "Refueling and Bombing Up. Tanker Carries 2,500 Gallons, Weighs 22 Tons. Bomb load Here 1 - 4,000 LB "Cookie", 10 - 500 LB General Purpose, 4 - 250 LB General Purpose. Normal All Up Weight of Lancaster 65,000 Lbs. Full Tanks Hold 2,154 Gallons Fuel". DUMBO painted above windscreen of fuel tanker, ROBBIE painted on back of leather jerkin being worn by the airman in foreground pushing the "Cookie" under the No. 75 Squadron Lancaster.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Russell
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Lancaster
    fuel
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    bomb
    weapons
  • MUS9500229a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Three armourers pushing a trolley of bombs under a Wellington. Unknown date of location. Nose art below cockpit window "Akyem Abuakwa"
    nose art
    bomb
    Wellington
    WW2
    World War Two
    RAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • MUS990887
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Armourers loading a 250lb bomb into a Wellington. Unknown date or location.
    bomb
    Wellington
    WW2
    World War Two
    RAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • MUS990624
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 rear view of DeHavilland DH9a, E8765, possibly of No. 74 Squadron, Royal Air Force, with some bombs in the foreground. Believed to be North Russia.
    RAF
    WW1
    World War One
    Dh9a
    E8765
    bomb
    Russia
  • PR3239
    RNZAF
    Ground crew bombing-up RNZAF Avenger NZ2523. Piva, Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Avenger
    Piva
    Bougainville
    bomb
    NZ2523
    volcano
  • Oh53-91
    RNZAF
    Front view of No. 75 Squadron Skyhawk NZ6214 on the tarmac with weapons arrayed in front. RNZAF Base Ohakea.
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Skyhawk
    Ohakea
    weapons
    bomb
    NZ6214
  • MUS060235
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. No. 18 Squadron pilot Ray Archibald crouched under a Kittyhawk armed with a 250(?) pound bomb. Unknown Pacific location.
    bomb
    Archibald
    Kittyhawk
    18 Sqn
    No. 18 Squadron
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Hough
  • PR4088
    RNZAF
    Mother and child beside a bomb trolley during an open day at RNZAF Station, Whenuapai. Oxford in the background.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Open Day
    Whenuapai
    Women
    children
    Oxford
    bomb
  • PR2066
    RNZAF
    Armourer loading practice bombs under the wing of a Harvard. Believed to be No. 2 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station, Woodbourne.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    2 SFTS
    Woodbourne
    Harvard
    bomb
    training
  • PR1372
    RNZAF
    Unknown airman using a 'cactus stove', made from a kerosene tin and the tail section of an aerial bomb. Believed to be Espiritu Santo.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    bomb
    Cactus Stove
    Espiritu Santo
    New Hebrides
    Vanuatu
    camp
  • PR4898
    RNZAF
    Groundcrew 'bombing-up' and refueling a line-up of No. 10 Servicing Unit Venturas. Emirau. NZ4566 in the background. Fuel tanker MT3066 at right.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    No. 10 Servicing Unit
    10 SU
    Ventura
    Emirau
    bomb
    fuel
    MT4566
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • PR2234
    RNZAF
    Group of No. 10 Servicing Unit armourers prepare to load a bomb onto Ventura NZ4507. Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Nose art: "Patua Te Ra". The Maori god Maui is brandishing a club at the rising sun, which he has caught in a net.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    No. 10 Servicing Unit
    10 SU
    Ventura
    bomb
    nose art
    Henderson Field
    Guadalcanal
  • PR4897
    RNZAF
    Groundcrew 'bombing-up' a line-up of No. 10 Servicing Unit Venturas. Emirau. Ventura NZ4608 in the background and bomb hoist MT2655 towing bomb train in view.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    No. 10 Servicing Unit
    10 SU
    Ventura
    NZ4608
    MT2655
    bomb
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Emirau
  • PR1391
    RNZAF
    Bombing up a No. 9 Squadron Hudson. Presumed to be Pallikulo Field, Espiritu Santo. Bomb at right marked: 325 LB. AIRCRAFT BOMB, MK.17 - MOD.2, E. G. BUDD MFG. CO, 1942 CON'T (unreadable series of numbers). Bomb at rear similarly marked, but dated 1941.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Hudson
    Bomb
    Armourer
    Pallikulo
    Espiritu Santo
    No. 9 Squadron
    9 Sqn
  • PR168a
    RNZAF
    Group of Air Training Corps cadets examining small practice bombs at RNZAF Station, Ohakea.
    RNZAF
    ATC
    Air Training Corps
    WW2
    World War Two
    bomb
    Ohakea
  • MUS060231
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. No. 18 Squadron pilot 'Turkey' Burke crouching under his Kittyhawk armed with a 250(?) pound bomb. Unknown location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Burke
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    Kittyhawk
    bomb
    Hough
  • ALB922911123
    RNZAF
    Image from the W Ford personal album collection. High view of the flattened city of Hiroshima, Japan, after being destroyed by the Atom Bomb.
    damage
    Nuclear bomb
    Japan
    J Force
    Hiroshima
    A Bomb
    Ford
  • MUS950382a
    Ventura NZ4535 parked at Piva, Bougainville, with two bomb trains in front. Each train has general purpose bombs and two 500 lb magnesium incendiary bombs.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Ventura
    Piva
    Bougainville
    bomb
    NZ4535
    incendiary