Image from the Louis Andreas Hoppe personal collection. Line up of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft at RNZAF Station Seagrove. Near aircraft is NZ5025. Handwritten on the reverse "25 Squadron on Seagrove Air Base out from Papakura."

Image from the Louis Andreas Hoppe personal collection. No. 25 Squadron crew, Warrant Officer LA Hoppe (left) and Flight Lieutenant JW Edwards standing on Dauntless NZ5051. Unknown location. Original RNZAF negative number PR3466.

Image from the Louis Andreas Hoppe personal collection. Informal group of No. 25 Squadron air crew in front of Dauntless '14'. RNZAF Station Seagerove. Original RNZAF negative number PR1589.

Image from the Barclay Foster Glanville personal collection. Air to air view of a formation of 18 No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft in two 'vic' formations. Handwritten on the reverse "25 Sqd. | SPD [sic] | Flying over Auckland | Farewell."

Image from the Barclay Foster Glanville personal collection. Air to air view of a formation of 18 No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft over RNZAF Station Seagrove. Handwritten on the reverse "25 Sqd."

Image from the Barclay Foster Glanville personal collection. Ground to air view of a formation of 18 No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft. Handwritten on the reverse "25 Sq. Farewell to Auckland before overseas."

Image from the Barclay Foster Glanville personal collection. Line up of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft at RNZAF Station Seagrove.

Image from the Barclay Foster Glanville personal collection. Line up of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft at RNZAF Station Seagrove. NZ5026 second in line.

Image from the Alexander MacDonald MacKenzie personal collection. The remains of a Hind on the end of a line up of Dauntless aircraft. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. NZ5019 and NZ5021 are the first two Dauntlesses.

Image from the Alexander MacDonald MacKenzie personal collection. Side view of Dauntless NZ5027, among others. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the Alexander MacDonald MacKenzie personal collection. Side view of Dauntless INST110 (NZ5016), believed to be at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the Maxwell Moore Skilton personal collection. Servicemen working on a damaged United States Dauntless. Believed to be at Nandi, Fiji.

3/4 front view of a Dauntless '9', at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. This aircraft still carries the American Star markings and '9' is painted each side of the front of the engine cowl.

Air to air of an American Dauntless '159' over Bougainville.

No. 25 Squadron [?] Dauntlesses at RNZAF Station, Seagrove [?]

No. 25 Squadron Dauntless preparing for take-off at RNZAF Station Seagrove. Note the American markings.

Air to air view of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless NZ5049 over Bougainville.

Air to air view of a formation of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless aircraft heading towards Rabaul.

Group of No. 25 Squadron air crew posing in front of a Dauntless at RNZAF Station Seagrove.

Flying Officer LA McLellan-Symonds (pilot) and Flight Sergeant RF Bailey on the wing of No. 25 Squadron Dauntless NZ5060. Unknown location. These two are probably Flight Sergeant RF Bailey and Flight Sergeant Bill Boden. See IF54 for more information Nose art depicts Donald Duck carrying a bomb. McLellan-Symonds was later lost on a ferry flight on 4 April 1944. Captured by the Japanese, he died in captivity.

No. 25 Squadron crew on a Douglas SBD Dauntless. Unknown location. Believed to be Flight Sergeant H Clark and Flight Sergeant NG Silver, crew of NZ5052.

No. 25 Squadron crew, Flying Officer GC Howie and Flight Sergeant JSR Robertson, on Dauntless NZ5048. Unknown location. 'Salome' nose art.

No. 25 Squadron crew, Flying Officer FG McKenzie and Pilot Officer GH French, on a Dauntless. Unknown location. Believed to be Dauntless NZ5061.

No. 25 Squadron crew, Flight Sergeant LH Jolly and Flight Sergeant TE Price, on a Dauntless. Unknown location. Believed to be Dauntless NZ5054. Note nose art 'Home's the Caper'.

No. 25 Squadron crew, Flight Sergeant CM O'Neill and Flight Sergeant DW Gray, on a Dauntless. Unknown location. Believed to be Dauntless NZ5056. Note nose art 'Paddy's Mistake'.