• 2026-085.13
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. Unknown service man sitting in the cockpit of a Corsair. Believed to be No. 5 Servicing Unit, Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    Bougainville
    Corsair
    No. 5 Servicing Unit
    5 SU
  • 2026-085.12
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. Unknown armourer pushing a bomb under Corsair 41. Believed to be No. 5 Servicing Unit Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    Corsair
    bomb
    weapons
    No. 5 Servicing Unit
    5 SU
  • 2026-085.11
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. Service men salvaging parts from a crash-landed Corsair. Believed to be Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    Bougainville
    Corsair
    accident
    damage
  • 2026-085.10
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. No. 5 Servicing Unit personnel having a cup of tea around Jeep MT2091 'Joe Wagon' on the taxiway in front of Corsairs. Believed to be at Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    Bougainville
    Mechanical TRansport
    MT
    MT2091
    Jeep
    Corsair
    food
    No. 5 Servicing Unit
    5 SU
  • 2026-085.9
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. Five service men standing on a beach in front of two catamarans made from surplus aircraft long-range fuel tanks. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    recreation
    fuel
  • 2026-085.8
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. GL Marquand(?) sailing a catamaran made from surplus aircraft long-range fuel tanks. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    recreation
    fuel
  • 2026-085.6
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. GL Marquand (centre?) with two others and a catamaran made from surplus aircraft long-range fuel tanks. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    fuel
    recreation
  • 2026-085.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. GL Marquand (centre?) with two others and a catamaran made from surplus aircraft long-range fuel tanks. Unknown Pacific location.
    Marquand
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    fuel
    recreation
  • 2026-085.5
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. GL Marquand standing on a fallen tree trunk on a beach. Unknown pacific location.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    recreation
    swimming
  • 2026-085.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. GL Marquand(?) sitting on a rock beside the sea. Unknown location in the Pacific. Handwritten on the reverse "Nuki".
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
  • 2026-085.3
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the George Leonard Marquand personal collection. Portrait of Leading Aircraftman GL Marquand. Whanganui.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Marquand
    portrait
    Whanganui
  • 2025-180.22
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. Informal full-length portrait of Sergeant LJ Coxhead standing in front of an Oxford at RNZAF Station Wigram, soon after graduating as a pilot.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Coxhead
    Wigram
    Oxford
    training
  • 2025-180.23
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. LJ Coxhead (left) and RA Carter (2nd from right) with two women. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Wigram after their graduation from Pilots Course 47A.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Coxhead
    Wigram
    Carter
    Women
    training
  • 2025-180.24
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. Five service men in front of a building. Unknown location.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Coxhead
    training
  • 2025-180.25
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. Group. Flight 3B of Recruit course 11, Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Coxhead
    Initial Training Wing
    ITW
    Rotorua
    group
    training
    recruit
  • 2025-180.26
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. Group. (possibly) Pilots course 47A after graduation in front of an Oxford. No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Wigram. LJ Coxhead, back row 2nd from left.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Coxhead
    No. 1 Service Flying Training School
    1 SFTS
    group
    training
    Oxford
  • 2025-180.27
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leslie John Coxhead personal collection. Group of recruits. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Omaka. LJ Coxhead, middle row 4th from left.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Coxhead
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Omaka
    group
    training
  • OhG82-41
    RNZAF
    3/4 front view of Beech Staggerwing ZK-AEU (later NZ573) at RNZAF Station Ohakea.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Ohakea
    Beechcraft
    Staggerwing
    ZK-AEU
    NZ573
  • MUS000247
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Thomas Grey Smith personal collection. Informal group of New Zealand ground crews in front of a No. 485 Squadron Spitfire at RAF Station Driffield. L-R: Sergeant FMB George (radio), Corporal TG Smith (radio), Leading Aircraftman TH MacGibbon, Leading Aircraftman ES Bon G'ard (armourer), Aircraftman GB Neville (armourer), Leading Aircraftman GE Erridge (armourer), Corporal N Murray, Aircraftman AW Martin (armourer), Corporal GH French (radio).
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    No. 485 Squadron
    485 Sqn
    Driffield
    Spitfire
    Smith
  • MUS000249
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Thomas Grey Smith personal collection. No. 485 Squadron radio mechanics tuning a radio from a Spitfire. RAF Station Driffield.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    No. 485 Squadron
    485 Sqn
    Driffield
    Spitfire
    Smith
  • MUS0002412
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Royal Air Force
    [Believed to be] Foundation members of No. 485 Squadron in front of a Spitfire. RAF Station Driffield. RNZAF copy negative at WgG1608-41.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    RAF
    No. 485 Squadron
    485 Sqn
    Spitfire
    Driffield
    group
  • MUS000246
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Shirley Elizabeth Dunn personal collection. Airfield scene at Norfolk Island. USAAF Dakota 4118578 'Elinor', two No.1 Squadron RNZAF Hudsons, and another USAAF Dakota, with a fire tender in front.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Norfolk Island
    USAAF
    Army
    4118578
    nose art
    Elinor
    No. 1 Squadron
    1 Sqn
    Hudson
  • MUS000244
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Gliddon personal collection. Airfield scene at RNZAF Station Harewood, showing newly assembled Hudson and Kittyhawk, with a line of Tiger Moths behind.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Harewood
    Hudson
    Kittyhawk
    Gliddon
  • MUS000243
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Gliddon personal collection. Airfield scene at Norfolk Island, with RNZAF Kittyhawks on the flight line at right, and an ambulance and fire tender at left.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Norfolk Island
    Kittyhawk
    Gliddon
  • MUS0002410
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arthur Patnell Pritchard personal collection. Group. Pilots course No.3 , No. 2 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Woodbourne. L-R: Back; AP Pritchard, GR Simich, R Broadbent. Middle; IAC Grant, RI Laing, WT Eiby, AJ Ryan, BG Collyns, FA Andrews. Front; JM Garrett, HN James, R Holder, BV LePine, R Barrett, RJC Grant, MG Barnett.
    2 SFTS
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 2 Service Flying Training School
    RNZAF
    WW2
    Woodbourne
    World War Two
    group
    training
    Pritchard