Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Aerial oblique view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Glory, with No. 14 Squadron vehicles and aircraft on the flight deck, leaving Waitemata Harbour on the way to Japan for Occupation duties.
Two Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneers and a de Havilland Sea Vixen in a hangar at RNZAF Base Ohakea.
These aircraft, from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Eagle which was berthed in Wellington, were visiting as part of Exercise Southern Clime.
Image from the W Ford personal album collection.
"Plaque on HMS Glory".
"On this spot Lieutenant General V.A.H. Sturdee G.O.C. 1st Australian Army accepted the surrender of the Japanese South Eastern Army and associated Naval Forces from General H. Imamura and Vice Admiral K. Kusaka off Rabaul 6-9-45"
