Image from the David Andrew Dunn personal collection.
No. 40 Squadron Lodestar NZ3515 after brake failure and swinging off the runway at Norfolk Island.
Associated document describes: "A Lodestar of No. 40 sqdn. after a very embarrassed(!) pilot had retracted his undercarriage instead of flaps while taxying along the coral strip."
Unsure which of these two descriptions is correct.
Close up of the engine and propeller of Harvard NZ994, from No. 1 Service Flying Training School, which crash landed at Brightwater, near Nelson, at RNZAF Station Nelson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5725 in the tidal mud flats near Mangere airfield, after it collided with Vampire NZ5729 during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5725 in the tidal mud flats near Mangere airfield, after it collided with Vampire NZ5729 during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5725 in the tidal mud flats near Mangere airfield, after it collided with Vampire NZ5729 during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5725 in the tidal mud flats near Mangere airfield, after it collided with Vampire NZ5729 during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5729 on farmland near Mangere airfield, after it collided with another Vampire during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Engine wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5729 on farmland near Mangere airfield, after it collided with another Vampire during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5729 on farmland near Mangere airfield, after it collided with another Vampire during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Engine wreckage of No. 14 Squadron Vampire NZ5729 on farmland near Mangere airfield, after it collided with another Vampire during a formation exercise.
Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots baled out and survived.
NZ5725 was flown by Flight Lieutenant RCC Nairn. NZ5729 was flown by Flight Sergeant GE Thompson.
Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection.
Bridge of a damaged Japanese ship. Believed to be at Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the reverse "Jap destroyer which failed to get away from the yanks in Solomons." and "Mick Slayt."
Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of a beached Japanese transport ship. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the reverse "Japanese ship beached on Guadalcanal."
Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection.
Informal group of service men on a wrecked Japanese ship. Believed to be at Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the reverse "Boys on Jap destroyer. Mick Slayt."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Service men looking at the wreckage of a crashed USAAF B17. Believed to be at RAF Station Asansol, India.
Handwritten on the album page "Calcutta to Asansol." and "Wreckage of a Fortress."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Aircraft wreckage (Japanese?) at RAF Station Zayatkwin, Burma.
Handwritten on the album page "Zayatkwin." and "This caused this."
See ALB1919010090
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
3/4 front view of a crashed No. 113 Squadron Blenheim at RAF Station Zayatkwin, Burma.
Handwritten on the album page "Zayatkwin." and "This caused this."
See ALB1919010088
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Allied service men looking at a crashed Japanese aircraft at/near RAF Station Mingaladon, Burma.
Handwritten on the album page "Wreckage of crashed Japs." and "Jap. Fighter."
Image from the Ewan Brooking personal album collection.
Rear fuselage of a Japanese aircraft that was shot down during an air raid on RAF Station Mingaladon, Burma.
Handwritten on the album page "Wreckage of crashed Japs." and "Tail of Jap bomber."
