Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Informal portrait of a Japanese woman. Unknown location. Handwritten on the album page "Honey San."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Informal portrait of an unknown Japanese woman. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Dimples."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Informal portrait of a Japanese woman and baby. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Nip mum & son."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron member Art Shaw, diving in to the sea. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Art Shaw."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron personnel, Nickes and Cooper, pose for the camera with the Squadron Commander's car, MT2244. Believed to be Bofu, Japan.Handwritten on the album page "

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Handwritten on the album page "Bofu sunset."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Unknown Australian service man posing in front of snow-covered vegetation. Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Aussie & Bofu snow."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Member of No. 14 Squadron relaxing on his bed. Believed to be Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Working Man."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Informal portrait of a Japanese woman at Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Honey San, Bofu."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Street scene in Tokyo, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Tokyo."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Unknown member of No. 14 Squadron and a Japanese woman. Believed to be at Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Yosira & ?."

Image from the Erik Alfred Anderson Moen personal collection. Officers and NCOs from the New Zealand Army Signal Corps with parachutes and flying gear, with some RNZAF pilots before a flight from RNZAF Station Wigram. Vildebeest NZ101 in No. 1 Hangar (later No. 4 hangar) behind. The three pilots are Flying Officer JRC Killian (4th from left), Flight Lieutenant CE Kay (6th from left), Flying Officer EAA Moen (8th from left).

Image from the Ewan Brooking personal collection. Group. No. 7 Air Crew course, Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Levin. NB. This file is a composite of four files digitally joined.

Image from the Albert Ernest Lyttle personal collection. Group. No. 8 Air Crew course, Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Levin. AE 'Bert' Lyttle is sixth from left, middle row. NB. This file is a composite of four files digitally joined.

Image from the Geoffrey Charles Hubbard personal collection. Group. Senior Entry at RAF College Cranwell. L-R: Back; CJ Wilmot, JH Walker, JL Norman, NP May. Middle; BW Schooling, PD Raeburn, PJ Sawyer, J Armstrong, TJ Burns, JI Barrow, GC Derby. Front; M Osborne, SJG Card, P Carter, MJ Griffiths, GC Hubbard, NMJ Fraser, AL Watson. Inset; ID Bulloch.

Copy of a No. 5 Squadron "Crossing The Line" certificate to commemorate passing into the Northern Hemisphere.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron personnel with an RAAF Mustang. Believed to be Bofu, Japan. Sitting on the wing at right is Doug Ranston. Handwritten on the album page "Some of us on an Aussie Stang."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron airman, Art Shaw, sitting on the wing of an RAAF Mustang. Believed to be Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Arty Shaw."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron airman Clue Goodall standing at the foot of his bed. Believed to be Bofu, Japan. Handwritten on the album page "Clue Goodall."

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Aircraft landing, believed to be at Bofu, Japan.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Cinema with movie advertising poster in front. Believed to be in Bofu, Japan.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Barrack building with snow, believed to be at Bofu, Japan.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Snow-covered base. Believed to be Bofu, Japan.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Snow-covered rural fields. Believed to be near Bofu, Japan.

Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Snow-covered base. Believed to be Bofu, Japan.