RNZAF personnel attending a formal ceremony in Tonga after the return of castaways that were rescued from Minerva Reef by a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland.
Squadron Leader Kelvin Bremner, RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay Medical Officer (far right).
Image from the KR Bremner personal collection. Four Tongan castaways beside the wreck of the Japanese fishing trawler ship Noshemi Maru on Minerva Reef.
Image from the KR Bremner personal collection. A member of the rescue crew from No. 5 Squadron, standing with some of the castaways beside the wreck of the Japanese fishing trawler ship Noshemi Maru on Minerva Reef.
Image from the KR Bremner personal collection. A member of the rescue crew from No. 5 Squadron, standing with some of the castaways beside the wreck of the Japanese fishing trawler ship Noshemi Maru on Minerva Reef.
Image from the KR Bremner personal collection. Tongan castaways in a rubber dinghy during their rescue from Minerva Reef by a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland crew.
Squadron Leader Kelvin Bremner, RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay Medical Officer, helping to recover the body of Fatai Efiafi, one of the castaways on Minerva Reef, to return it to the family.
Squadron Leader Kelvin Bremner, RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay Medical Officer, helping to recover the body of Fatai Efiafi, one of the castaways on Minerva Reef, to return it to the family.
Two crew members from a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland pose with an SOS message painted on the end of a drum on Minerva Reef.
Squadron Leader Kelvin Bremner, Medical Officer (left) and Squadron Leader Bernie O'Connor, Pilot (right).
Group of No. 18 Squadron officers with New Zealand Fighter Wing scoreboard. Ondonga, New Georgia.
L-R: Flight Lieutenant RH Balfour, Squadron Leader JA Oldfield, Flying Officer CDA Highet, Pilot Officer BW Williams and Pilot Officer RW Bremner. Scoreboard shows 57 Japanese flags. See PR2364
