• PR4901
    RNZAF
    Ground crew preparing to bomb-up and refuel a No. 10 Servicing Unit Ventura at Emirau. GMC fuel tanker tractor MT3066 in front of the aircraft.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    No. 10 Servicing Unit
    10 SU
    Emirau
    Papua New Guinea
    Ventura
    GMC
    fuel
    weapons
    MT3066
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
  • PR5204
    RNZAF
    Goup of riflemen fire a volley at the funeral for No. 22 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer Anthony Dennitts Willcox. Australian War Cemetery, Torokina, Bougainville. Willcox died soon after a motor vehicle accident at Emirau on 25 February 1945. Initially buried at Torokina, but later reinterred at Bourail, New Caledonia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Bougainville
    Torokina
    funeral
    cemetery
    Willcox
    No. 22 Squadron
    22 Sqn
    Emirau
    weapons
  • ALB971531261
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Frances Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. No. 30 Servicing Unit Corsair '06' armed with a bomb with an extended fuse at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the album page "30 S.U. Jacquinot Bay" "Daisy Cutter."
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    New Britain
    Jacquinot Bay
    Corsair
    No. 30 Servicing Unit
    30SU
    weapons
  • 2011-407.14
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection. FD Colin Brown sitting in the cockpit of a Gordon at No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Wigram. Note the gun camera(?) mounted on the fuselage.
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Brown
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 1 Service Flying Training School
    1SFTS
    Gordon
    Wigram
    training
    weapons
  • 2006-715.1o
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Raymond William George Emery personal collection. "Neville Parks [second from right] with a few of the dud bombs dropped by Jerry on his aerodrome [Old Sarum]"
    RNZAF
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Emery
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Old Sarum
    weapons
    Parkes
  • 2006-715.1m
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Raymond William George Emery personal collection. Two armourers loading belts of ammunition into the starboard wing of a No. 3 Squadron, RAF, Hurricane. Believed to be at RAF Station Hunsdon. Believed to be Flight Lieutenant Eddie Berry looking on.
    RNZAF
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Emery
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Hunsdon
    Hurricane
    weapons
    Berry
  • 2006-715.1L
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Raymond William George Emery personal collection. Two armourers loading belts of ammunition into the starboard wing of a No. 3 Squadron, RAF, Hurricane. Believed to be at RAF Station Hunsdon. Believed to be Flight Lieutenant Eddie Berry looking on.
    RNZAF
    RAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Emery
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Hurricane
    weapons
    Berry
  • ALB873251073
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arnold Forrest Green personal album collection. View of a display of Japanese "souvenirs", including gas mask, helmet and ordnance.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Green
    weapons
  • ALB873251067
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arnold Forrest Green personal album collection. View of a Japanese anti-aircraft gun inside a bunker. Unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Green
    weapons
  • ALB873251051
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arnold Forrest Green personal album collection. Unexploded shell, unknown Pacific location.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Green
    weapons
  • NIC28
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron armourer, Aircraftman Ramage, arming the machine guns on a squadron Vampire at RAF Station Abu Suier, Egypt.
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    Egypt
    Abu Suier
    Vampire
    weapons
    Ramage
  • NIC27
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron armourer, Aircraftman K Libline, loading ammunition into a squadron Vampire at RAF Station Abu Suier, Egypt.
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    Egypt
    Abu Suier
    Vampire
    weapons
    Libline
  • NIC25
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron armourers preparing rockets to be loaded onto Vampire WP998. RAF Station Abu Suier, Egypt. L-R: Aircraftman 1 K Libline, Corporal Henderson, Leading Aircraftman Lineham.
    RNZAF
    No. 14 Squadron
    14 Sqn
    Egypt
    Abu Suier
    Vampire
    weapons
    WP998
    Libline
    Henderson
    Lineham
  • ALB88125123b073
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Way collection. Ground crew refueling and loading bombs onto a Wellington. Unknown location. Believed to be No. 75 Squadron.
    weapons
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    RNZAF
    WW2
    Way
    World War Two
    Wellington
  • ALB88125123b075
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Way collection. Ground crew refueling and loading bombs onto a Wellington. Unknown location. Believed to be No. 75 Squadron.
    weapons
    World War Two
    Way
    WW2
    RNZAF
    75 Sqn
    No. 75 Squadron
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wellington
  • ALB971531295
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. RNZAF airman crouching with a rifle in a slit trench. Believed to be at Nandi, Fiji. Handwritten on the album page "We Shall Fight." ALB971531143
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Eichbaum
    Fiji
    Nandi
    weapons
  • ALB971531283
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. RAAF Jeep parked in front of some bomb trolleys at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the album page "New Britain. 1945. Replenishing."
    Eichbaum
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Jacquinot Bay
    New Britain
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Jeep
    RAAF
    weapons
  • ALB971531235
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Stored bombs at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the album page "New Britain. 1945. Bomb Dump."
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Eichbaum
    New Britain
    Jacquinot Bay
    weapons
  • ALB971531221
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Unknown serviceman with a 'Daisy Cutter' bomb under a Corsair. Green Island. Handwritten on the album page "Green Island 1945. Bombed - Up."
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    Green Island
    Nissan Island
    Papua New Guinea
    weapons
    Corsair
  • ALB971531215
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Aieman preparing to 'lift' a 1000lb bomb. Green Island. Handwritten on the album page "Green Island 1945. A Beautiful Baby."
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    Green Island
    Nissan Island
    Papua New Guinea
    weapons
    humour
  • ALB971531202
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Airman wearing gas mask and with a rifle standing in the door of a hut at RNZAF Station Delta. Handwritten on the album page "Delta. 1944. Gas Drill."
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Eichbaum
    training
    Delta
    weapons
  • ALB971531250
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. 3/4 front view of a Corsair with a 'Daisy Cutter' bomb. Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the album page "New Britain. 1945. F4U On Standby"
    Jacquinot Bay
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    World War Two
    WW2
    New Britain
    Corsair
    weapons
  • ALB971531173
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Corporal Oxpring sitting on a bomb on a trolley. Nausori airfield, Fiji. Handwritten on the album page "Nausori. 1943. Johnny Oxpring"
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    Fiji
    Naisori
    World War Two
    WW2
    Oxpring
    smoking
    weapons
  • ALB971531143
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. RNZAF airman standing in a slit trench at Nandi Airfield, Fiji. Handwritten on the album page "Nandi Field. 1942. Hec. McMasters" See also ALB971531295.
    Eichbaum
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Fiji
    Nandi
    McMasters
    weapons
  • ALB971531134
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Group of RNZAF personnel wearing helmets and holding rifles. Nandi, Fiji. Handwritten on the album page "Nandi Field. 1942. General Alert 10-3-42." See also ALB971531135.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Eichbaum
    RNZAF
    Fiji
    Nandi
    weapons