Image from the R Vickery personal collection.
View of the Ventura servicing area at Bougainville, with NZ4608 and NZ4560 being worked on.
Fire tender in foreground MT936.
Image from the Peter Charles Croxton Sheppard personal collection.
No. 16 Squadron pilots getting out of truck, MT1167, after an operation. Piva, Bougainville.
L-R; DJ McAulay, LS Bates, KA Mitchell.
Handwritten under the original print "After a strike [including the names, initials added by cataloguer.]
Image from the Peter Charles Croxton Sheppard personal collection.
No. 16 Squadron pilots climbing into truck, MT1167, on the way to their aircraft. Piva, Bougainville.
Handwritten under the original print "Going out on a bombing strike."
Image from the Peter Charles Croxton Sheppard personal collection.
Informal group of No. 16 Squadron pilots relaxing inside a tent. Piva, Bougainville.
L-R: AL Slater, AL Reiper, CO Brady, DJ McAulay, KH Harpin.
Names handwritten under the print. Initials added from squadron diary.
Image from the Peter Charles Croxton Sheppard personal collection.
No. 16 Squadron Pilot, Flight Lieutenant Graham Cargill Howie, writing a letter in his tent. Piva, Bougainville.
Handwritten at the top of the album page "At Bougainville (2nd tour)." [Actually the squadron's 6th tour of duty.]
Handwritten under the print "Graham Howie in hut at night (later killed) . Crashed on takeoff."
Image from the Leonard Adolphus Rayner DFC personal album.
RNZAF Dakota about to take-off from Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Mount Bagana smoking in the distance.
Labelled on the album page "C47 on Peva [sic] Airstrip - Bougainville"
Original RNZAF Negative number PR3232.
Large group of Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel with a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura. Piva, Bougainville [?] 10 Servicing Unit [?] personnel on the aircraft and 3 Squadron [?] aircrew on the ground.
Image from the Jasper Ernest Lewis Baldwin personal collection.
Piva airstrips viewed from a hill top. Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "Strips from hill 700 | Bougainville"
Image from the Gordon Wadman Hooper Hirst personal collection.
Personnel gathered around an RAAF Kittyhawk which has had an accident. Believed to be at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Image from the Gordon Wadman Hooper Hirst personal collection.
3/4 front view of No. 23 Squadron Corsair NZ5487 'Dixie' after belly landing because the undercarriage failed to lower. The pilot Flight Sergeant FS Adeane survived unhurt.
