Image from the Robert James Prentice personal collection. Informal group of No. 4 Fighter Maintenance Unit with their 'score board'. Unknown location.

Image from the Robert James Prentice personal collection. Informal group of No. 4 Fighter Maintenance Unit with their 'score board'. Unknown location.

RNZAF armourers at work preparing ammunition belts. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit at Espiritu Santo.

Ground crew hoisting an engine into an RNZAF Kittyhawk. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

A member of the ground crew hammers dents from a Kittyhawk engine cowling. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

Ground crew perform maintenance on an RNZAF Kittyhawk. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

General view of a RNZAF airstrip. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo. Jeep MT1045 at left.

Ground crew hoisting an engine into a Kittyhawk. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

Ground crew check the engine in a Kittyhawk. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

Ground crew prepare to check the engine in a Kittyhawk. Presumed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

RNZAF ground crew work on the wing of a Kittyhawk. Presumed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Espiritu Santo.

RNZAF airman using an oxy-acetylene welding outfit. Presumed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit or Base Depot Workshops. Espiritu Santo. See Contact Magazine, May 1944, page 21.

Ground crew replacing the engine on an RNZAF Kittyhawk. Believed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit at Espiritu Santo. See Contact Magazine, May 1944, page 22.

Ground crew servicing an RNZAF Kittyhawk. Presumed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit at Espiritu Santo. See Contact Magazine, May 1944, page 8.

Group of RNZAF ground crew watch the sky for returning aircraft. Presumed to be No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit at Espiritu Santo. See Contact Magazine, May 1944, page 20.

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.

RNZAF Kittyhawks on the airfield. Presumed to be No. 16 Squadron, on charge to No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit, at Espiritu Santo. Hudsons in the background, presumed to be No. 9 Squadron.

Line-up of RNZAF Kittyhawks on runway. Presumed to be No. 16 Squadron at Espiritu Santo. Aircraft on charge to No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit.

No. 16 Squadron [?] Kittyhawk taxiing on runway. Presumed to be Espiritu Santo. Aircraft on charge to No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit [?]

Members of No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit holding the damaged rudder from No. 14 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer EL Avery's Kittyhawk. Kukum Field, Guadalcanal. Avery's aircraft, believed to be NZ3064, was damaged 4 July 1943. See PR1268.

Members of No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit work on No. 14 Squadron Kittyhawk NZ3064 in the aircraft servicing area. Kukum Field, Guadalcanal. This is believed to be the aircraft flown by Flying Officer EL Avery which was damaged in an action on 4 July 1943.

Members of No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit holding the damaged rudder from No. 14 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer EL Avery's Kittyhawk. Kukum Field, Guadalcanal. See Contact Magazine, May 1944, page 26. Avery's aircraft, believed to be NZ3064, was damaged 4 July 1943. See PR1268.

Ground crew servicing a group of No. 14 Squadron Kittyhawks. Presumed to be No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit at Kukum Field, Guadalcanal.

Group of airmen shower in the open at a Pacific camp. Presumed to be members of No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit, Kukum, Guadalcanal.

Portrait of an airman with a watch and a small Tiki on the same piece of cord as his identification tags. Presumed to be a member of No. 1 Fighter Maintenance Unit, kukum, Guadalcanal.