• 2011-407.6
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection. Warrant Officer FD Colin Brown (right) with the parachute packer, Leading Aircraftman JN Powell, who packed the parachute that saved Brown's life after an accident in his No. 681 Squadron Spitfire. RAF Station Dum Dum, India. See page 298 - 299 of the Official History Vol 3 by Thompson. See also 2011-407.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Brown
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    WW2
    World War Two
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    India
    Dum Dum
    No. 681 Squadron
    681 Sqn
    parachute
    Powell
  • 2011-407.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection. Warrant Officer FD Colin Brown holding the ripcord of his parachute after being forced to bale out of his No. 681 Squadron Spitfire while on a photographic reconnaissance sortie. RAF Station Dum Dum, India. See page 298 - 299 of the Official History Vol 3 by Thompson. See also 2011-407.6.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Brown
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    RAF
    India
    Dum Dum
    No. 681 Squadron
    681 Sqn
    parachute
  • 2022-039.132
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection. Four No. 681 Squadron pilots(?) posing for the camera with one of their Spitfires at RAF Station Imphal, India. Handwritten on the reverse "681 Sqdn. | Imphal Detachment | Oct 1944", with two signatures and a drawing of a winged aerial camera.
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    World War Two
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    RNZAF
    Imphal
    India
    No. 681 Squadron
    681 Sqn
    Spitfire
  • 2022-039.134
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection. Nose art a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny", on a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire. RAF Station Imphal India.
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    World War Two
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    RNZAF
    Imphal
    India
    No. 681 Squadron
    681 Sqn
    Spitfire
    nose art
  • 2022-039.135
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection. Ground crew preparing a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire for flight. RAF Station Imphal India. Nose art shows a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny". Handwritten on the reverse "Imphal."
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    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Brown
    Imphal
    India
    No. 681 Squadron
    681 Sqn
    Spitfire
    nose art