Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Group of officers standing beside Lancaster PD328 'Aries' from the Empire Central Navigation School. RNZAF Station Ohakea. L-R: Major Jackson (US Army), United States Military Attache, Captain Gray (US Navy), United States Naval Attache, Air Vice Marshal LM Isittm RNZAF Chief of Air Staff, Group Captain RJ Cohen AFC, Wing Commander McKinley (Lancaster pilot).

Operation Fresco. Commander of Forces in the Gulf, General HN Schwarzkopf, at a press conference. Believed to be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader David Forbes-Dawson, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 75 Squadron mascot, Henry Fanshaw, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 75 Squadron mascot, Henry Fanshaw, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 75 Squadron mascot, Henry Fanshaw, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

Operation Fresco. No. 75 Squadron mascot, Henry Fanshaw, with the New Zealand flag on top of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the background are US Army Grumman Mohawk aircraft.

3/4 front view of USAF VC118, 533305, being refueled on the tarmac at RNZAF Base Ohakea. This aircraft carried General Ralph E Haines, US Army Pacific Area Command, to Ohakea where he flew to Waiouru by RNZAF Dakota.

Side view of USAF VC118, 533305, being refueled on the tarmac at RNZAF Base Ohakea. This aircraft carried General Ralph E Haines, US Army Pacific Area Command, to Ohakea where he flew to Waiouru by RNZAF Dakota.

Unloading Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at RNZAF Base Wigram.

Unloading Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at RNZAF Base Wigram.

Unloading Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at RNZAF Base Wigram.

Unloading Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at RNZAF Base Wigram.

Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, just after arriving at RNZAF Base Wigram , by Hercules.

Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, just after arriving at RNZAF Base Wigram , by Hercules.

Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, just after arriving at RNZAF Base Wigram , by Hercules.

Iroquois 0-15923, donated by the United States Army, just after arriving at RNZAF Base Wigram , by Hercules.