• ALB845871a022
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing." All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
    Guadalcanal
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    Tugby
    Henderson Field
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Hudson
    NZ2037
    accident
    damage
    Liberator
    USAAF
  • ALB845871a023
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing." All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
    Henderson Field
    Tugby
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Guadalcanal
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Hudson
    NZ2037
    accident
    damage
    Liberator
    USAAF
  • ALB845871a021
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. Wreckage of two USAAF Liberators destroyed in a Japanese bombing raid. Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "Two Liberators "the morning after the night before." Jap bombing is not so bad so we found out."
    Tugby
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Guadalcanal
    Liberator
    USAAF
    damage
    Henderson Field
  • OhG126-42
    RNZAF
    USAAF Beechcraft and No. 6 Squadron Hinds. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Milson, Palmerston North. Hinds from front: NZ1544 XX-Y, NZ1545 XX-A, NZ1546.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Milson
    No. 6 Squadron
    6 Sqn
    Army
    USAAF
    Beechcraft
    NZ1544
    NZ1545
    NZ1546
    Hind
  • 2013-109.224
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Charles Peter White personal collection. CP White (2nd from right) with an unknown New Zealand Flying Officer Navigator who's the recipient of the DFC (left) and some American air crew at Club Lido, San Francisco, United States. NB. The date stated is from a rubber stamp on the original card cover, however it's believed this is later, on the journey back to New Zealand.
    USA
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    WW2
    White
    World War Two
    San Francisco
    alcohol
    Club Lido
    USAAF
    Army
    smoking
  • 2021-151.15
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Colin McRobert Kellahan personal collection. 3/4 front view of USAAF Liberator 42-40212(?) "Shady Lady". Unknown location. Handwritten on the reverse "An American Liberator "Shady Lady" passing through our drome. Note the raid score board on the fuselage."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Kellahan
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    USAAF
    Army
    Liberator
    Shady Lady
    nose art
    42-40212
  • PR4921
    RNZAF
    Ground to air of a formation of USAAF Mitchell aircraft over Emirau.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Papua New Guinea
    Emirau
    Mitchell
    USAAF
    Army
    formation
  • PR4920
    RNZAF
    Ground to air of a formation of USAAF Mitchell aircraft over Emirau.
    Emirau
    Papua New Guinea
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mitchell
    USAAF
    Army
    formation
  • 2011-407.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection. "Gil Ross. One of our boys at 131 sqdn. Atcham. From the USA." American pilot poses wearing his flying equipment, with No. 131 Squadron Spitfire BL352 NX-D. RAF Station Atcham.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Brown
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    RAF
    No. 131 Squadron
    131 Sqn
    Spitfire
    BL351
    Atcham
    Ross
    USAAF
  • 2006-006.1L
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Walter P Murray personal collection. Two USAAF Avengers with covers over their canopies. Believed to be at Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Murray
    Army
    USAAF
    Avenger
    Bougainville
  • 2006-006.1f
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Walter P Murray personal collection. 3/4 rear view of a USAAF Dakota "VHCFI", appears to be stuck in soft ground. Believed to be at Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Murray
    USAAF
    Army
    Dakota
    Bougainville
  • ALB873251060
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arnold Forrest Green personal album collection. USAAF Dakota being refuelled and loaded. Unknown Pacific location, possibly Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Green
    USAAF
    Army
    Dkota
    fuel
  • ALB971531234
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. USAAF Mitchell after a landing accident at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the album page "New Britain. 1945. Yank Prang."
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Eichbaum
    New Britain
    Jacquinot Bay
    USAAF
    Army
    Mitchell
    accident
    damage
  • ALB971531220
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. USAAF Commando at Green Island. Handwritten on the album page "Green Island 1945. Curtiss Commando."
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    Green Island
    Nissan Island
    Papua New Guinea
    Commando
    USAAF
    Army
  • 1997-153.2b
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Copy print from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum album collection. USAAF Airacobras and an RNZAF Hudson in a hurricane pit at Nandi aerodrome, Fiji.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Eichbaum
    Fiji
    USAAF
    Army
    Airacobra
    Hudson
    Nandi
  • PR1427
    RNZAF
    Airman relaxing in a deckchair under a tree. Believed to be Espiritu Santo. In the background is a Hudson (partly obscured) and Kittyhawks lined-up on runway
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Vanuatu
    Espiritu Santo
    New Hebrides
    Hudson
    Kittyhawk
    USAAF
    Army
    recreation
  • PR1424
    RNZAF
    Kittyhawks being serviced at No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit aircraft repair depot. Espiritu Santo. Jeep MT1047 in the left foreground. Nearest aircraft is a USAAF machine.
    Army
    USAAF
    Kittyhawk
    2FMU
    No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Vanuatu
    Espiritu Santo
    New Hebrides
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT1047
    Jeep
  • 2008-448.3q
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. USAAF Airacobra taxiing. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    USAAF
    Army
    Airacobra
  • 2008-448.3i
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. USN Corsairs (left) and a USAAF Airacobra (centre) in an aircraft 'graveyard' area. Unknown location.
    Corsair
    Navy
    USN
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    damage
    USAAF
    Army
    Airacobra
  • 2008-448.2x
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. Derelict USAAF aircraft in a 'graveyard', unknown location. Lightning 4267747 in front and Liberator 4240533 behind.
    18 Sqn
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    No. 18 Squadron
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    USAAF
    Army
    damage
    Lightning
    Liberator
    4267747
    4240533
  • 2008-448.2m
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. Two USAAF Lightnings flying low over an airfield. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    USAAF
    Army
    Lightning
  • 2008-448.2n
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. USAAF Lightning taxiing. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    USAAF
    Army
    Lightning
  • 2008-448.4a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Anthony Francis Hough personal collection. No. 18 Squadron pilots, Harold Souter (left) and the Commanding Officer Squadron Leader JA Oldfield (right) with a USAAF Lightning behind. Believed to be at Ondonga, New Georgia, Solomon Islands.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hough
    RNZAF
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    Souter
    Oldfield
    USAAF
    Army
    Ondonga
    New Georgia
    Solomon Islands
    Lightning
  • 2020-124.115
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. Air to air view of USAAF Lightening 4267079 in flight. Unknown location.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Shaw
    air to air
    USAAF
    4267079
    Army
    Lightening
  • WaipapG349
    RNZAF
    3/4 front view of USAAF B17, 4124430, believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
    RNZAF
    USAAF
    Army
    World War Two
    WW2
    Whenuapai
    B17
    Flying Fortress
    4124430