The first RNZAF Catalina in New Zealand. No. 6 Squadron crew pose with their aircraft at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. L-R: Standing at back; Flight Lieutenant KH Day, Flying Officer TD Brewer. Standing in cockpit; Squadron Leader RBL MacGregor (Flight Commander), Wing Commander GG Stead (Commanding Officer). 4x unknown at front right.

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. Electrical worker at the radio station in a No. 5 Squadron Catalina. RNZAF Station Fiji. Handwritten on the album page "Frank Horn Elt. [Electrical] at intercomm. control on Catalina. Fiji."

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. Serviceman beside a tent at Los Negros. Handwritten on the album page "Ralph Birchall of Dunedin at Los Negros June 1945."

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. Serviceman beside a tent at Los Negros. Handwritten on the album page "Frank Hicks of Gisborne at Los Negros."

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. Five RNZAF service men in front of tents at Los Negros. Handwritten on the album page "AEW Holtom 'Pee Wee ', FGN Hicks 'Whitey', MJ Lewitt 'Mark', [front] Eric Forde 'Mickey', RS Birchall 'Wee Ralphie'. All Resident in Tent 85 Los Negros from 22/4/45 till 30/9/45."

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. RNZAF Serviceman standing in front of a tent at Los Negros. Handwritten on the album page "Eric Forde / Los Negros/ June 1945."

Image from the Martin Lewitt personal album. No. 5 Squadron Electrical Section personnel beside Catalina XX-D at RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji. L-R: LA Green, R Boden, L Warwick, FE Horn, N Kinghan.

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Local canoe on the water at Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Entrance to harbour on Mussau"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Young local boy. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Mussau St Matthias Group"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Waterfall. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Waterfalls on Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Waterfall. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Mussau, St Matthias Group"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. River in the jungle. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Mussau, St Matthias Group"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Handwritten on the reverse "Wilde's Homestead used by RNZAF as a rest home"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Overturned artillery piece in a stream. Unknown location.

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. View up the Hooker Valley towards Aoraki/Mt. Cook. new Zealand.

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of service men three local people. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Our party on Mussau outside schoolteachers hut. She stands in front of me. Whites in photo - at back from L. Maslin, Grieve, Ingley, F/O Brown, Cormack, Henderson, Thomas - a sailor, Capon, Hodgson. Front Row: A sailor, Clark, Lord, Foley, Burnley."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of local people. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Natives at Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of local people. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Natives at Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of local people. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Natives at Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of local people and a service man. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Natives at Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of local people. Mussau Island. Handwritten on the reverse "Natives at Mussau."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Four service men sitting in front of a No. 10 Servicing Unit sign at Camp Tui, Emirau. Handwritten on the reverse "Outside camp on Emirau. On right Keith Warboys and Allan Clark

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Two service men standing beside a sign which reads "Welcome to Manus. U.S. Navy Transient Camp. Finest Hotel in the Pacific." Handwritten on the reverse "Los Negros. Admiralties."

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Informal group of service men sitting on a fallen tree on a beach, with a home-made sailing boat made from old fuel tanks. Emirau. Handwritten on the reverse "Enukatasi Island, Emirau Island, St Matthias Group (Japanese radar station on here) taken on 4th August 1945"

Image from the James Alan Capon personal collection. Lines of tents at Emirau. Handwritten on the reverse "Tui lines, 10 SU Emirau. I was in the last tent in left hand row."