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.
Image from the Gordon Wadman Hooper Hirst personal collection.
Line up of RNZAF Corsairs. Believed to be at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Original print out of focus.
Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection.
3/4 front view of a captured Japanese Zero at Piva, Bougainville.
This aircraft is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
3/4 front view of a USAAF Mitchell '215', believed to be at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "US Mitchell"
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
Stored bombs and trolleys with bombs at Piva, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "Bomb Dump Piva airstrip | Bougainville."
Image from the Ayrton personal collection.
View from the control tower of a Dakota taking off from Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
Handwritten on the reverse "C.47 taking off from Piva airstrip | Bougainville | 13/7/45."
3/4 high front view of New Zealand war prize Zero, with air force personnel looking over it at Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now at Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Image from the Alan Pawsey personal collection.
Captured Mitsubishi Zero taxiing at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
This aircraft was flown from Kara airstrip to Piva by Wing Commander Kofoed and is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Image from the Alan Pawsey personal collection.
Captured Japanese Mitsubishi Zero at Piva, Bougainville.
This aircraft is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Image from the Alan Pawsey 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.
Bearer parties for the crew of Hudson NZ2012 that crashed at Piva, Bougainville 23 April 1945, killing Flight Lieutenant RH Lamason, Flying Officer WC Hall, Leading Aircraftman JA Medhurst.
See also PR5901, PR5903, PR5904, PR5927 and PR5928
3/4 front view of New Zealand war prize Mitsubishi Zero at Piva, Bougainville.
Still painted in surrender colour scheme.
This aircraft is now on display in Auckland Museum.
RNZAF personnel looking over the surrendered Mitsubishi Zero at Piva. Still painted in surrender colour scheme.
This aircraft is now at Auckland Museum.
