Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of the crater of Mount Ruapehu.
Handwritten on the reverse "Ruapehu in Eruption, from plane."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Soldiers guarding NZPAF Bristol Fighters at Trentham during the New Zealand tour by Charles Kingsford-Smith and crew after their first flight across the Tasman Sea.
Handwritten on the reverse "Planes from Blenheim at Trentham 1928 | (first crossing of Tasman?)"
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Unknown airman in a Harvard, or Battle. Unknown location in Canada.
Handwritten on the reverse "Hoppie in a meditative mood. The hooks are to hang our parachute on when we "jump". The large light button is the 'quick release' of we want to get out of our harness in a hurry, on landing."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Air to air view of an Anson in flight. Believed to be in Canada.
Handwritten on the reverse "Flying over clouds on our way home from bombing. About 6000ft."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
No. 2 Squadron Ventura NZ4540 with a broken wing after swinging on take off and coming to rest beside the runway at Munda, New Georgia.
Handwritten on the reverse "In the Pacific Islands, Ventura plane (New Georgia) | (I didn't do this)(but I was in it)"
Dayman's log book records
"Looked like the end of '40' "
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Servicemen looking at No. 2 Squadron Ventura NZ4540 after swinging on take off and coming to rest beside the runway at Munda, New Georgia.
Dayman's log book records
"Looked like the end of '40' "
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
3/4 front view of a captured Japanese Zero at Piva, Bougainville.
This aircraft is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Air to air view of two No. 2 Squadron Hudsons in formation. Unknown location, believed to be in NEw Zealand.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of smoke on a coast. Believed to be New Ireland.
Handwritten on the reverse "C.13. 14/1/45. BOM. | S/L Collie"
According to Dayman's log book he did not fly that day, so location is based on the regularity of operations against New Ireland at that time.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Aerial oblique view, from the cockpit of a No. 2 Squadron Ventura, of an unknown coastline.
Handwritten on the reverse "S/L Hamilton | 2.Sq-C55-Himau-20-1-45-0830-f63/8-100' "
According to Dayman's log book he did not fly that day.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of two volcanos. Believed to be one side of Simpson Harbour, Rabaul, New Britain.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Air to air view of a Fairey Battle in flight. Unknown location in Canada.
Hand written on the reverse "One of the Fairies of Dunkirk, battered, but still flying."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
RAF Skymaster landing at RNZAF Station Ohakea.
Handwritten on the reverse "RAFTC Skymaster. Ohakea. June 1945."
RAF Transport Command used a small number of these aircraft in No. 232 Squadron and No. 246 Squadron.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Air to air view of a formation of Kittyhawks over the Pacific. Viewed from a No. 2 Squadron aircraft.
Handwritten on the reverse "Hawk 87 Curtis [sic] | RAF called Kittyhawk."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
USAAF Liberators lined up on the airfield at Munda, New Georgia.
Hand written on the reverse "New Georgia. Western Pacific."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Front view of No. 2 Squadron Ventura NZ4540 after swinging on take off and coming to rest beside the runway at Munda, New Georgia.
Handwritten on the reverse "In the Pacific Islands, Ventura plane (New Georgia) 1944 | Another one of my nine lives."
Dayman's log book records
"Looked like the end of '40' "
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Air to air view of two No. 2 Squadron Venturas in formation over the sea in Rekata bay, Santa Isabel Island.
According to Dayman's log book this was taken from NZ4506 on a 'Rufe' hunt. Rufe being the allied code name for a Nakajuma A6M aircraft.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
M Dayman (left) with another man with an Oxford. Unknown location.
Handwritten on the reverse "L/ seated on wing | F/O M. Dayman."
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
Crew of the Southern Cross at Trentham racecourse during a New Zealand tour after the first flight across the Tasman Sea.
Handwritten on the reverse "Ulm, Ardell, Kingsford-Smith, McWilliams, Litchfield. | Left to Right 1928. | First crossing of Tasman (photo by MD)"
