Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Stan Moyle standing in front of an RAF Transport Command Dakota.
Handwritten on the reverse "Camden. Aus[tralia]. Stan Moyle."
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
3/4 front view of Fokker Tri-motor VH-USU 'Southern Cross'.
Handwritten on the reverse "Southern Cross - she still goes. Taken Camden - Nov 45."
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Tarmac and hangars at Iwakuni airfield.
Handwritten on the reverse "Airstrip - Tarmac & burnt out hangars [sic]. Iwakuni (Japan) May 1946."
NB. The hangars were stripped of their iron cladding to supply shelter for survivors of nearby Hiroshima.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Group. No. 5 Squadron and No. 26 Squadron, Air Training Corps at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Original RNZAF negative number WgG13653-63.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Group. Air Training Corps Senior NCOs course in front of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7003. RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
Flight Lieutenant DG Sutherland front row 5th from right.
Original RNZAF negative number WhG15561-65.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
3/4 front view of RAF Transport Command Liberator EW634 at Leyte, Philippines.
Handwritten on the reverse "C87. Lib[erator]. V.I.P. at Leyte. | Ballinger and Moyle. 18/9/45."
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
DG Sutherland (middle) and two others on a captured Japanese Mitsubishi J2M 'Jack' at Atsugi airfield, Japan.
Handwritten on the reverse "Tojo. [sic. see above] Atsugi. Sep. 45. | John Bremen. self. Tim Hay in cockpit."
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Crew of RAF Transport Command Dakota KN340 'Spirit of Middlesex' outside the Watch Hut(?) at Atsugi airfield, Japan.
Handwritten on the reverse "First British crew to land in Japan. Taken the day after the Yanks went in. (I am on the left)."
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Informal group of the crew of RAF Transport Command Dakota KN340 'Spirit of Middlesex' at Parafield Airport, Adelaide, Australia.
Handwritten on the reverse "Right to left. F/Lt McLean. F/Lt Hay. F/O Sutherland. F/O Whitehead. | Taken by Press Photographer - Adelaide Aus[tralia]. on return from Japan."
NB. This was the first British aircraft to land in Japan after World War Two.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Informal group of the crew of RAF Transport Command Dakota KN340 'Spirit of Middlesex' at Parafield Airport, Adelaide, Australia.
Handwritten on the reverse "F/O G. Whitehead. co/pt [co-pilot]. F/Lt McLean. Cpt [Captain]. F/Lt T. Hay. Nav. F/O D.G. Sutherland. (WOP.)[Right to left] | Taken at Parafield Airdrome Adelaide Australia on our return from Japan - after the Peace Treaty was signed."
NB. This was the first British aircraft to land in Japan after World War Two.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
3/4 front view of RAF Transport Command Dakota KN340 'Spirit of Middlesex' at Parafield Airport, Adelaide, Australia.
Handwritten on the reverse "Dakota KN340 at Para Field. First RAF a/c to land in Japan 18/9/45."
NB. Although this is the date on the print, Sutherland's log book records that he stopped in Adelaide for a few hours on the 10th.
Image from the Douglas Graeme Sutherland personal collection.
Tarmac and hangars at Iwakuni airfield.
Handwritten on the reverse "Airstrip - Tarmac & burnt out hangars [sic]. Iwakuni (Japan) May 1946."
NB. The hangars were stripped of their iron cladding to supply shelter for survivors of nearby Hiroshima.