• 2023-127.42
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert James Prentice personal collection. View of an island coastline. Believed to be Papaete, Tahiti. Handwritten on the reverse "(Papeete) With love to Piri. Arthur xxx." The marks on the coastline are ink marking buildings(?). This print and 2023-127.28 and 2023-127.40 all have the same handwriting on the reverse and are all the same format print. Therefore the location has been assumed.
    Prentice
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Tahiti
  • 2023-127.40
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert James Prentice personal collection. Group of people standing in front of a banana (?) tree. Handwritten on the reverse "At Papetee [sic]. I am on the right. he photo was taking [sic] to get the palm and banana trees not us." This print and 2023-127.28 and 2023-127.42 all have the same handwriting on the reverse and are all the same format print. Therefore the location has been assumed.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Prentice
    Tahiti
  • 2023-127.28
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert James Prentice personal collection. Four men watching a local man opening a coconut. Unknown. Handwritten on the reverse "A native boy is here opening a coconut which we had just picked. You will notice it is a buck party." This print and 2023-127.40 and 2023-127.42 all have the same handwriting on the reverse and are all the same format print. Therefore the location has been assumed.
    food
    Prentice
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Tahiti
    Papaete
  • ALB021781007
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the NEJ Brathwaite nee Boddington personal album collection. Postcard showing a scenic coastal view with a fisherman and his canoe. Tahiti.
    Tahiti
    RNZAF
    Brathwaite
    Boddington
  • ALB021781009
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the NEJ Brathwaite nee Boddington personal album collection. Postcard showing a scenic coastal view with coconut palms and mountains.
    Tahiti
    RNZAF
    Brathwaite
    Boddington
  • ALB021781008
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the NEJ Brathwaite nee Boddington personal album collection. "New Zealand and Tahitian Group in the garden of the "Col Bleu"." Group of WAAF women and both Army and RNZAF servicemen with local Tahitian women in Tahiti on the way to England for the Victory Parade celebrations.
    RNZAF
    Tahiti
    WAAF
    Women
    Army
    Brathwaite
    Boddington
  • ALB121472003
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    von Tunzelman
    Image from the ME von Tunzelman log book. No. 5 Squadron Catalina NZ4034, PA-F, moored in Papeete Harbour, Tahiti. The crew of this aircraft was; Flight Lieutenant von Tunzelman (pilot), Warrant Officer Wallace (second pilot), Flight Lieutenant Bolton (navigator), Flying Officer Hudson (1st wireless operator), Flight Sergeant Phillips (2nd wireless operator), Sergeant Bignell (1st engineer), Sergeant Harke (2nd engineer), Sergeant Stewart (3rd engineer), Sergeant Guinness (air gunner).
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    von Tunzelman
    Catalina
    No. 5 Squadron
    5 Sqn
    Tahiti
    Papaete
    NZ4034