• 2020-124.114
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. Air to air view of a Focke-Wulf Fw187 in flight. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Shaw
    air to air
    Focke-Wulf
    Fw187
    Germany
    Luftwaffe
  • 2020-124.113
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. Air to air view of a captured Luftwaffe Bf109, with RAF colours and serial number AE479.
    air to air
    Shaw
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    RAF
    Luftwaffe
    Messerschmitt
    BF109
    AE479
  • MUS980742
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection. Still from Evan Mackie's, No. 80 Squadron Tempest, gun camera showing an Arado 96 being shot down, somewhere over the Fassberg airfield. Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
    Mackie
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    RAF
    Luftwaffe
    Germany
    Fassberg
    Arado
    air to air
    No. 80 Squadron
    80 Sqn
  • MUS0901414
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 front view of a captured German Messerschmitt ME109, painted with British roundels, on the airfield at RAF Station Luqa, Malta.
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    RAF
    Messerschmitt
    ME109
    Malta
    Luqa
  • MUS0901416
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Air to air view of a flight of five German Heinkel He111 in formation. NB: the white marks at bottom right is paint on the print, not gunfire.
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    air to air
    formation
    Heinkel
    He111
  • MUS0901420
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Focke Wulf Fw190, werk number 5313, which accidentally landed at RAF Station Pembrey, England.
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Luftwaffe
    Focke Wulf
    Fw190
    Pembrey
    England
    5313
  • MUS0901427
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German Pilot, Oberfeldwebel Johann Hermann, standing in front of his Messerschmitt Me110. Unknown location.
    Luftwaffe
    Me110
    Messerschmitt
    WW2
    World War Two
    Hermann
  • 1999-058.33
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. Captured German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me109 KT+W?, missing many parts, at Catania, Sicily, Italy. Bryan Young's information supplied "October 1943. During the landings at Salerno in Italy I succumbed to an onslaught of malaria, was evacuated to an RAF hospital at Catania in Sicily, recovered and while waiting for air transport back to the squadron [I] snapped this picture of a wrecked ME 109 in its blast bay on the aerodrome."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    Italy
    Catania
    Luftwaffe
    Messerschmitt
    Me109
    damage
  • 1999-058.36
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. Numerous damaged and wrecked German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force aircraft in a grave yard at Catania, Sicily, Italy. See 1999-058.32 and 1999-058.33 for relevant information supplied by Bryan Young.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    Catalia
    Italy
    Luftwaffe
    damage
    Regia Aeronautica
  • 1999-058.32
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me210 at RAF Station Catania, Sicily, Italy. Bryan Young's information supplied "Same as for photo [1999-058.33] with a different German aircraft surrounded by debris and wreckage of other aeroplanes. I think the photo shows the remains of an ME210 nightfighter."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Catania
    Italy
    Luftwaffe
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    damage
    Me210
    Messerschmitt
    Catania
    Italy
  • 1999-058.34
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. 3/4 rear view of a German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju88 at Catania, Sicily, Italy. See 1999-058.32 and 1999-058.33 for relevant information supplied by Bryan Young.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Catania
    Italy
    Luftwaffe
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    damage
    Junkers
    Ju88
  • MUS990341
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eight frames of gun camera film, showing a German Luftwaffe FW190 being shot down by No. 485 Squadron pilot Flight Sergeant Robson. One frame shows canopy coming off and another couple of frames show the pilot bailing out. This was only recorded as a 'probable'.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    No. 485 Squadron
    485 Sqn
    Luftwaffe
    Focke Wulf
    FW190
    damage
    Robson
  • MUS990198
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    New Zealand pilot KH Gregory after being captured by the Germans and becoming a Prisoner of War. Unknown location.
    RNZAF
    RAF
    Luftwaffe
    World War Two
    WW2
    Gregory
    Prisoner of War
    PoW
  • MUS960999
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German pilot Major Wilhelm Hegert and crew prepare to take off in a Messerschmitt Me110. Unknown location. Information on Major Hegert is under MUS9609911.
    Woprld War Two
    WW2
    Luftwaffe
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hegert
    Messerschmitt
    Me110
  • 2021-025.5
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Cemetery of German graves, believed to be Luftwaffe casualties. Believed to be in North Africa.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Luftwaffe
    cemetery
  • 2021-025.3
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German Luftwaffe troops wearing winter camouflage in a snow-covered field. Dresden, Germany. Translated German handwriting on the reverse "A photo of our battle service in the snow. In the middle Sergeant Hirem, our bitter Platoon Leader. Dresden, December 1939 (Storm at height 112)"
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Luftwaffe
    Dresden
    Germany
  • 2021-025.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German Luftwaffe personnel in a field. Unknown location in Germany. Translated German handwriting on the reverse "Our leaders at the drill ground. From right: Unterofficer [Sergeant] Moseler, Gefreiter [Aircraftman 1] Adamit, Unterofficer [Sergeant] Kleinert, in front: Unterofficer [Sergeant] Hildebrand, Unterofficer [Sergeant] Becker, our Corporal Unterofficer [Sergeant] Birnbaum (with a stick)[crossed out] and another Gefreiter.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    Germany
  • 2021-025.1
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Group of Luftwaffe Auxiliary women, radio operators?, walking along a street. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    Women
  • 2021-025.2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Informal group of Luftwaffe Auxiliary women and some men. Unknown location. The women appear to be radio operators(?).
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    Women
  • 2012-405.153
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. German Heinkel HE177, with wings removed. Unknown location in Germany.
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    Luftwaffe
    Heinkel
    HE177
    Germany
  • 2012-405.156
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. Abandoned German aircraft on the tarmac in front of a hangar. Fassberg, Germany. Handwritten on the reverse "Thanks Goering but surely you need these kites. Gerries hurried exit left these careless [unreadable]. Fassberg. Germany. April 1945."
    Atkinson
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    No. 486 Squadron
    486 Sqn
    Luftwaffe
    damage
    Fassberg
    Germany
  • 2012-405.157
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. Abandoned German aircraft outside a hangar at Fassberg, Germany. Handwritten on the reverse "As Gerries left it. Fassberg, Celle, Germany. April 45."
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    Luftwaffe
    Fassberg
    Germany
  • 2012-405.151
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson(?), standing on the wing of a captured Messerschmitt ME109 from JG51. RAF Station Kastrup.
    ME109
    Messerschmitt
    Luftwaffe
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    JG51
    Denmark
    Kastrup
  • 2012-405.152
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, standing in the cockpit of a captured Messerschmitt ME410 D1+AH from 2.(F)/22. RAF Station Kastrup, Denmark.
    ME410
    Messerschmitt
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    Luftwaffe
    Germany
  • 2012-405.115
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilots pose in front of a captured German FW190 at RAF Station Kastrup, Denmark. L-R: Standing; FP Kendall, JW Reid, ND Howard, LD Roderick, RJ Atkinson, CJ McDonald, WJ Shaw, G Maddaford, BS Griffiths, R Bird. In front; RA Melles, HT Leach, DJ Thomson, AI Ross.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    No. 486 Squadron
    486 Sqn
    Kastrup
    Denmark
    Luftwaffe
    FW190