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.
NZ5026 second in line.
3/4 rear view of No. 25 Squadron RAF Blenheim, ZK-Y, with a collapsed port undercarriage, after trying to land on top of a twenty foot cloud bank. RAF Station Debden.
Taken during the Battle of Britain.
Image from the A Bennison personal collection.
3/4 rear view of No. 25 Squadron RAF Blenheim ZK-Y, with a collapsed port undercarriage, after trying to land on top of a twenty foot cloud bank. RAF Station Debden.
Taken during the Battle of Britain.
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, 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'.
No. 25 Squadron crew, Flight Sergeant NL Kelly and Flight Sergeant BE Cullen, on a Dauntless. Unknown location.
Believed to be on Dauntless NZ5062.
Nose art is a parrot riding a bomb.
No. 25 Squadron crew, Sergeant CGW Kuhn and Flight Sergeant M Small, on a Dauntless. Unknown location
Believed to be on Dauntless NZ5053.
Nose art is a duck holding a bomb above its head.