• 2023-155.3
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    Image from the Raymond Joseph Boag personal collection. View out the back of an RAF Blenheim during a daylight raid on a power station in Cologne, Germany. Original RAF Official caption pasted to the reverse "C.2024. Daylight Attack on Cologne Power Station. Flying at times less than 100 feet from the ground, a strong force of Blenheim aircraft of the R.A.F. Bomber Command delivered a daylight attack upon 2 great Power Stations near Cologne on August 12th, 1941. One of the targets was Fortuna Power Station and this photograph shows how the pilots flew their aircraft almost at ground level to press home the attack. A general view of bomb bursts on the target photographed from an attacking aircraft during the daylight raid on Fortuna Power Station on August 12th."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Blenheim
    Cologne
    Germany
    oblique
  • 1992-133.28
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ian Gordon Richmond personal collection. 3/4 front view of No. 218 Squadron Blenheim T1996 at RAF Station Oakington. Handwritten in image area "F/Lt Richmond. Sgt Andrews. Sgt Cranley". The two crew members, Sergeants Andrews and Cranley only flew with F/Lt Richmond once in this aircraft. In the bottom border is written "T1996. 8.11.40". Close up of nose art detail at 1992/133.29
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Richmond
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Oakington
    Blenheim
    No. 218 Squadron
    218 Sqn
    nose art
    T1996
  • 1992-133.29
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ian Gordon Richmond personal collection. Nose art on No. 218 Squadron Blenheim T1996 at RAF Station Oakington. Nose art depicts a devil holding a trident, riding a bomb, with the word "Verdammnis" [German for Damnation]. Full view of this aircraft at 1992/133.28
    RAF
    Richmond
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Oakington
    Blenheim
    No. 218 Squadron
    218 Sqn
    nose art
    T1996
  • 1992-133.23
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ian Gordon Richmond personal collection. 3/4 rear view of Blenheim L1140. Unknown location. Handwritten on the reverse "Bristol "Blenheim"."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Richmond
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Blenheim
    L1140
  • 2020-124.108
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. 3/4 front view of Blenheim YB-L. Unknown location.
    Blenheim
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Shaw
    RAF
  • ALB920382b079
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Keith Logan Caldwell personal album collection. KL Caldwell (right) with another man outside a house in Blenheim, New Zealand. Handwritten above the print "George Mitchell & KLC Blenheim."
    Caldwell
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Blenheim
    Mitchell
  • PR600
    RNZAF
    Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force marching at public display in Blenheim.
    Blenheim
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    parade
    Women
    WAAF
  • PR601
    RNZAF
    Members of the RNZAF and the Women's Auxiliary Air Force on parade at a public display in Blenheim.
    Blenheim
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    parade
    Women
  • PR596
    RNZAF
    Three members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force facing the Union Jack at a public display in Blenheim.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    parade
    Blenheim
    Women
    WAAF
    flag
  • PR599
    RNZAF
    Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force hold aloft the Australian flag at a public display in Blenheim.
    WAAF
    Women
    parade
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Blenheim
    flag
  • PR598
    RNZAF
    Physical Training display by Air Training Corps cadets. Blenheim.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
    training
    Blenheim
  • PR597
    RNZAF
    Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Air Commodore SF Vincent DFC AFC, RAF giving a public address at a Blenheim gala.
    Blenheim
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Vincent
    Deputy Chief of Air Staff
    DCAS
    flag
  • PR602
    RNZAF
    Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Air Commodore SF Vincent DFC AFC, RAF gives an address at a public display in Blenheim.
    Blenheim
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Vincent
    Deputy Chief of Air Staff
    DCAS
  • MUS22006
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    Large group of air crew in front of some Blenheim aircraft on an airfield. Unknown location in North Africa. Original caption on the reverse reads "The R.A.F. at work in the western desert. Blenheim bomber pilots chatting on their desert aerodrome before taking off on a raid." CM202.
    RAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    Blenheim
  • 2021-066
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Margaret Aitken personal collection. Group. WAAF and WRNZAF reunion at Blenheim. Handwritten on the reverse "WAAF Reunion | Blenheim 1960." Margaret Aitken (nee Yates); 2nd from the right, 6th row. Flavia White; 8th from right, 6th row. Shirley Dobson (nee Chapman); 2nd from the left, 3rd row. Leah Sturrack (nee Coe).
    Blenheim
    Women
    WRNZAF
    WAAF
    Aitken
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    reunion
  • WbG1224-43
    RNZAF
    View of the Air Force publicity or recruiting display inside the Blenheim Town Hall.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Blenheim
    recruiting
  • WbG1222-43
    RNZAF
    High view of the Air Force publicity or recruiting display inside the Blenheim Town Hall.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Blenheim
    recruiting
  • 2018-210.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    NZ Aero Products
    Image from the Arthur Phillip Stokes personal collection. Side view of No. 2 Squadron, Territorial Air Force, Mustang NZ2422. Believed to be near Blenheim.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Stokes
    Territorial Air Force
    TAF
    Mustang
    NZ2422
    No. 2 Squadron
    2 Sqn
    Blenheim
  • MUS1400416
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Harvard NZ972 in a town. Unknown location, possibly Blenheim?
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Harvard
    RNZAF
    NZ972
    Blenheim
  • 2015-059.87
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Harry Elrick personal collection. 3/4 front view of No. 30 Squadron Blenheim K7179 with personnel fueling from tins. Unknown location in the Middle East.
    RAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Elrick
    Blenheim
    K7179
    fuel
  • 2015-059.88
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Harry Elrick personal collection. Side view of No. 30 Squadron Blenheim K7179. Unknown location in the Middle East.
    Elrick
    World War Two
    WW2
    RAF
    Blenheim
    K7179
  • ALB8553839004
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Foster Collection personal album. "Blemheim [sic]". Aerial oblique view of Blenheim from a Vildebeest.
    RNZAF
    Foster
    oblique
    Blenheim
    Vildebeest
  • ALB8553839007
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Foster Collection personal album. "Trip to Blemhiem [sic] 1939. Pilot - D.W.S. Clark." View from the cockpit of a Vildebeest of Blenheim Airfield (either Omaka or Woodbourne).
    RNZAF
    Foster
    Blenheim
    oblique
  • ALB8553839010
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Foster Collection personal album. "Blemheim [sic]". Aerial oblique view of Blenheim township.
    RNZAF
    Foster
    oblique
    Blenheim
  • ALB8553839011
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Foster Collection personal album. Aerial oblique view, from the gunners position of a Vildebeest, of the Blenheim town centre.
    Foster
    RNZAF
    oblique
    Vildebeest
    Blenheim