Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. 3/4 rear view of Dragon Rapide ZK-AEC 'Mercury' with aid packages ready for delivery. RNZAF Station New Plymouth. Handwritten on the album page "No. 2 E.F.T.S. New Plymouth 1940" and "During back-country floods packages of food were parachuted to isolated farms." and "Ready to load."

Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection. Handwritten on the album page "No. 2 E.F.T.S. New Plymouth 1940" and "During back-country floods packages of food were parachuted to isolated farms." and "Packages and parachutes."

Local Cook Islanders inside a No. 40 Squadron Hercules during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Scene of damage after Cyclone Martin in the Cook Islands.

Scene of damage after Cyclone Martin in the Cook Islands.

RNZAF personnel carrying a patient on a stretcher out the back of a No. 40 Squadron Hercules, during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

No. 40 Squadron Hercules (NZ7004?) on the airstrip, believed to be at Manihiki, during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Local Cook Islanders embarking onto a No. 40 Squadron Hercules, during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Local Cook Islanders inside a No. 40 Squadron Hercules during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Local Cook Islanders help to unload relief supplies from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Local Cook Islanders help to load relief supplies just unloaded from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Local Cook Islanders help to load relief supplies just unloaded from No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 during relief operations after Cyclone Martin.

Aerial oblique view of Napier after the earthquake. Nelson Park with a tent city for survivors.

Group of civilian and Air Force personnel gathered around a No. 3 Squadron Iroquois at Tekapo for disaster relief. (what disaster??)

Image from the Edward John Ernest Tompkins personal collection. Aerial oblique view of a small boat with a person signaling with a flag. Unknown location. Handwritten beside image "Search 1946"

No. 3 Squadron personnel walking towards an Iroquois in Reefton after a large earthquake. NZ3803 (left) and NZ3805 (right)

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. Loading a 400KVa power generator in a 20 foot shipping container into the back of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. Loading a 400KVa power generator in a 20 foot shipping container into the back of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. Loading a 400KVa power generator in a 20 foot shipping container into the back of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7004 at Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. No. 3 Squadron personnel pose for the camera with local children in a devastated village.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. No. 3 Squadron personnel pose for the camera with local children in a devastated village.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. No. 3 Squadron personnel having breakfast with an Air New Zealand Boeing 767 captain at Faleolo airport. L-R: Corporal Melton Hows, Leading Aircraftman Struan Reid, Captain Evan Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Brian Coulter.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. The New Zealand High Commissioner to Western Samoa, the Defence Liaison Officer and Major Bruce Kenning planning Defence Force relief activities. L-R: Adrian Simcock, Wing Commander John Hamilton, Major Bruce Kenning.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. Personnel being served a meal outside a mess tent. Apia.

Cyclone Val relief, Western Samoa. No. 3 Squadron personnel having breakfast with an Air New Zealand Boeing 767 captain at Faleolo airport. L-R: Corporal Melton Hows, Leading Aircraftman Struan Reid, Captain Evan Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Brian Coulter.