• ALB844621b001
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Swan on a small pond in the Auckland Zoo. Handwritten in the album "Auckland Zoo."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Auckland
    animals
    swan
  • ALB844621b002
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Leopard(?) in its enclosure in the Auckland Zoo. Handwritten in the album "Auckland Zoo."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Auckland
    animals
    Leopard
  • ALB844621b003
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Barrack buildings at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. Handwritten in the album "Camp area Whenuapai."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Whenuapai
  • ALB844621c200
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Four No. 14 Squadron servicemen standing beside a car. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten in the album "The boys."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Japan
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621c199
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Japanese labourers working to empty a truck load of shingle. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten in the album "[Japanese] girls work."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Japan
    BCOF
    Women
    J Force
  • ALB844621c198
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Nuns(?) during a traditional Shinto religious service in a temple. Unknown location. Handwritten in the album "Worship"
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Women
    religion
    Japan
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621c196
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Coastal scene with small vessels tied up on shore. Unknown location. Handwritten in the album "Jap[anese] coast"
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    sightseeing
    Japan
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621c195
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. Portrait of an unknown Japanese actress. Unknown location in Japan. Handwritten in the album "Actress"
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Women
    Japan
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621B005
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. USAF B-17, 483798, that is presumed to have accompanied the RNZAF aircraft to Australia.
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    USAF
    B17
    Flying Fortress
    483798
  • ALB844621B004
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. RNZAF personnel before leaving for Japan. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. D Ranston, first on the right, front row sitting.
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Whenuapai
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621B006
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. RNZAF personnel on board a Dakota flying to Norfolk Island on the way to Japan.
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Dakota
    J Force
    BCOF
  • ALB844621B007
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. RNZAF personnel in front of a No. 41 Squadron Dakota at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. Handwritten in the album "The whole crowd" D Ranston, second from left, crouching.
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Whenuapai
    J Force
    BCOF
    Dakota
    No. 41 Squadron
    41 Sqn
  • ALB844621C197
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Ranston personal album collection. View of sleeping quarters. Believed to be Bofu airfield, Japan. Handwritten in album "My sack"
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    J Force
    BCOF
    Japan
    Bofu
  • 1998-312.2b
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Doug Ranston personal collection. Crane lifting a No. 75 Squadron Mosquito NZ2325 wing to break the fuselage away. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Ohakea. This aircraft suffered a landing accident in 1950 resulting in the aircraft being written off.
    RNZAF
    Mosquito
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Ranston
    Ohakea
    NZ2325
    damage
  • ALB844621c095
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D Ranston personal album collection. No. 14 Squadron Corsair receiving its 80 hour inspection. Believed to be at Bofu, Japan.
    14 Sqn
    Bofu
    Corsair
    J Force
    Japan
    No. 14 Squadron
    RNZAF
    hangar
    Ranston
  • ALB844621e190
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing the Kure railway station. Kure, Japan.
    BCOF
    train station
    railway station
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Kure
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e191
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing a street scene in Kure, Japan.
    BCOF
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Kure
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e192
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing a street in a shopping area in Kure, Japan.
    BCOF
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Kure
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e193
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing the "shipping area" in Kure, Japan.
    BCOF
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Kure
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e194
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart in Hiro, Japan
    BCOF
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Hiro
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e195
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Hand-coloured souvenir photograph showing 'The Palace' dance hall in Hiro, Japan.
    BCOF
    dance hall
    souvenir
    RNZAF
    Hiro
    Japan
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e196
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. "Street Iwakuni".
    BCOF
    Japan
    RNZAF
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force
  • ALB844621e197
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the D. Ranston personal album collection. Personnel looking at a USAF P61 Black Widow aircraft at Iwakuni airfield.
    BCOF
    Japan
    RNZAF
    P61
    P-61
    Black Widow
    Iwakuni
    USAF
    Ranston
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    J Force