• pr10414
    Royal Air Force
    No. 487 Squadron ground personnel in front of a Ventura, with 18 bombs painted on the nose. Unknown location. L-R(?): Corporal Bush, Corporal Benton, Corporal Tooley and Aircraftman Armstrong. Copy neg.
    RNZAF
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    No. 487 Squadron
    487 Sqn
    Ventura
    nose art
    ground crew
    Bush
    Benton
    Tooley
    Armstrong
  • PR4615
    RNZAF
    Group of Workshops Maintenance staff pose around the engine from a crashed aircraft. Bougainville. Engine presumed to be from a Corsair.
    RNZAF
    Bougainville
    WW2
    Group
    Ground crew
    engine
    maintenance
  • PR3392
    RNZAF
    Group of No. 20 Squadron [?] pilots and ground crew with a Corsair. Believed to be at Torokina. Good view of flight gear.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    20 Sqn
    No. 20 Squadron
    Corsair
    ground crew
  • PR1323
    RNZAF
    Group of groundcrew scan the sky, waiting for their aircraft to return. Presumed to be No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo. Names on blackboard behind believed to be NCOs in charge of specific aircraft: Binns, Law, Brady, Anderson, Armitage, Everest, Hargreaves, Holmes.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Espiritu Santo
    ground crew
  • OhG2190-84
    RNZAF
    Ground personnel preparing No. 75 Squadron NZ6218 for flight at RNZAF Base Ohakea. Practice bombs at bottom left.
    RNZAF
    Ohakea
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Skyhawk
    NZ6218
    ground crew
    bomb
  • ALB0224349093
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the No. 75 Squadron collection. Photo album that belonged to Leonard Rodney Hewitt. " "D for Donald" - lost at Hamburg | Ground crew." Three members of the ground crew standing beside No. 75 Squadron Wellington W5621 AA-D. Believed to be at RAF Station Feltwell.
    Feltwell
    ground crew
    AA-D
    W5621
    Wellington
    75 Sqn
    No. 75 Squadron
    Hewitt
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two