Image from the Pat Ford personal collection.
Photographer (Pat Ford?) holding an F24 aerial camera, standing under the wing of a visiting USAAF Flying Fortress. Unknown location in New Zealand.
Image from the David Andrew Dunn personal collection.
USAAF Flying Fortress landing at Norfolk Island.
Associated document describes: "This Unites States Flying Fortress "lost" an engine in the area somewhere east of Norfolk, became lost, short of fuel, and sent out distress calls which were received by the Norfolk operations room. With the aid of information supplied by the Mt. Pitt radar station and D/F bearings from the control tower, the aircraft was guided to a safe landing at Norfolk. By the time it landed, the aircraft was critically short of fuel and most of the cargo had been dumped overboard through the open hatches on each side of the fuselage. The sight of crew members prostrating themselves on the ground after the aircraft had been parked attested to their joy of again finding mother earth!
Several days later after a Liberator had flown in a replacement engine and it had been fitted, the Fortress departed to the strains of "The William Tell Overture" "sung" by the crew over the command radio as the aircraft gathered speed down the runway and became airborne.
Memories suggest that the name painted on the nose of the aircraft was "The Swoose" taken from the story "The Snow Goose". If this is so, it is probable the aircraft was one of the few survivors, if not the sole survivor of the Flying Fortress squadrons destroyed at Clark Field in the Philippines during the initial Japanese attack. Note that the photograph shows the aircraft is not armed, it having been converted to a transport role."
NB. The above identification may be incorrect.
See also 1986-016.87
Copy negative at MUS980261.
This aircraft is believed to be B17 419211 'Typhoon McGoon'.
Image from the David Andrew Dunn personal collection.
USAAF Flying Fortress taxiing at Norfolk Island.
Associated document describes: "Another photograph of the Flying Fortress pictures in No. 19 [1986-016.3.19]. Note that the starboard outer engine is feathered - probably the motor "lost" in flight. The group of men on the steel runway and another to the left of the aircraft are probably units of the NZ Army garrison stationed on Norfolk at the time."
See also 1986-016.86
This aircraft is believed to be B17 419211 'Typhoon McGoon'.
Informal group of passengers and crew on B17, 412434, at RNZAF Station Ohakea.
The passengers included the New Zealand Prime Minister, Peter Fraser (standing 5th from left) and Brigadier General PJ Hurley (US Army)(standing 6th from left) and their staff.
Richie Belton Gooch, USAAF (3rd from right).
See also MUS980265 for a picture of this aircraft and OhG124-42 for this group without crew.
Informal group of passengers on B17, 412434, at RNZAF Station Ohakea.
The passengers included the New Zealand Prime Minister, Peter Fraser (4th from left) and Brigadier General PJ Hurley (US Army)(5th from left) and their staff.
See also MUS980265 for a picture of this aircraft and OhG125-42 for this group including the aircraft crew.
Negative from the Ewan Brooking personal collection.
USAAF B17 landing. Believed to be at RAF Station Asansol, India.
Handwritten on the album page "Magwe to Asansol to Calcutta." and " "Fortress" landing."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Service men looking at the wreckage of a crashed USAAF B17. Believed to be at RAF Station Asansol, India.
Handwritten on the album page "Calcutta to Asansol." and "Wreckage of a Fortress."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Ground to air view of a USAAF B17. Believed to be at RAF Station Asansol, India.
Handwritten on the album page "Magwe to Asansol to Calcutta." and " "Fortress"."
Negative from the Ewan Brooking personal collection.
USAAF B17s and a Liberator on the airfield at RAF Station Karachi, India (now Pakistan).
Handwritten on the album page "Bahrein [sic] Is. to Sharjah to Karachi." and "Karachi civil airport." and "Outside the watch office."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
9th Squadron, USAAF B17 41-2464 and a No. 113 Squadron Blenheim on the airfield at RAF Station Karachi, India (now Pakistan).
Handwritten on the album page "Bahrein [sic] Is. to Sharjah to Karachi." and "Karachi civil airport." and " "Fortress" and Blenheim."
Image from the Russell Owen Douglas personal collection.
Members of the crew of a No. 214 Squadron Flying Fortress at RAF Station Oulton, England.
RO Douglas kneeling at left.
Image from the Russell Owen Douglas personal collection.
Members of the crew of a No. 214 Squadron Flying Fortress at RAF Station Oulton, England.RO Douglas in gun turret.
Image from the Russell Owen Douglas personal collection.
Members of the crew of a No. 214 Squadron Flying Fortress at RAF Station Oulton, England.
RO Douglas kneeling in front.
USAF Flying Fortress 44-8992 leaving RNZAF Station Ohakea for Nausori, Fiji.
The Ohakea Unit History lists the crew as: Captain Zerdecki, Captain Engel, First Lieutenant Beeke, Second Lieutenant Martizen, and the passengers as: Brigadier General Loper, Colonel Berry, Colonel Brown and Lieutenant Colonel Edwards.
