Parade of personnel of No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit for the investiture of the US DFC to No. 16 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump. Espiritu Santo.
Group of officers at the investiture of the US DFC to No. 16 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump. Espiritu Santo.
Air Commodore S Wallingford second from the left.
Parade of personnel of No. 2 Fighter Maintenance Unit for the investiture of the US DFC to No. 16 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump. Espiritu Santo.
Group of officers arriving by car on the occasion of the investiture of the US DFC to No. 16 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump. Espiritu Santo.
Group of No. 16 Squadron pilots with flying gear. Believed to be Espiritu Santo.
L-R: Flight Lieutenant RL Spurdle, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump, Flight Sergeant CA McDonald, Flight Lieutenant TM de Denne.
Group of No. 16 Squadron pilots in the dispersal area. Espiritu Santo.
L-R: Sitting: Colin McDonald, Pat Tilyard, Max de Denne, Ernie Laurie, Lyn Williams, Mort Vanderpump.
Standing at left is Noel Pirie wearing flying gear, with four other similarly attired airmen.
Names taken from the book 'Kittyhawks and Coconuts' by Keith Mulligan.
See PR1325.
Flying Officer MT Vanderpump being strapped into his Kittyhawk. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
Although not with No. 14 Squadron (assuming that this is a Pacific Ferry Flight image), it is presumed that Vanderpump was brought in for ferry flight purposes.
Informal gropup of No. 15 Squadron pilots at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. Names in no particular order: Owen, Dincan, Court, Herrick, Vanderpump, Arkwright, de Willimoff, Greig, Young, Murdoch, Scott
Group of No. 16 Squadron pilots, on their first tour, posing in front of a Kittyhawk. Espiritu Santo.
L-R: Back; J Voss, J Miller, S Sharp, JH Arkwright, A George, B Delves, J Black, J Day, J Nelson, F Smith, B Spurdle, M de Denne, E Laurie, MT Vanderpump, C McDonald, D Jones.
Front; M Willis, A Bayly, S Duncan, K Mulligan, N Pirie, L Williams, P Tilyard.
Duncan and Williams were killed on the first tour.
Source of names: 'Kittyhawks and Coconuts' by Keith Mulligan and 'The Blue Arena' by Bob Spurdle.
Group of No. 16 Squadron pilots sitting on the wing of a Kittyhawk. Believed to be at Espiritu Santo.
L-R: Sergeant PA Tilyard, Flying Officer MT Vanderpump, Flight Lieutenant TM de Denne, Sergeant LW Williams, Flight Sergeant CA McDonald.
Group of No. 16 Squadron pilots with Kittyhawk '66'.
This group was involved in the first bomber assault on Rabaul, 19 December 1943.
L-R: Merv Jones, Dennis Page, Pat Tilyard, Keith Mulligan, Alan Mitchell, Turkey Burke, MT Vanderpump, Fred Donaldson, Ernie Laurie, Jack Williams, Ramsey Boyd, Colin McDonald, Keith Starnes.
Names from Keith Mulligan's book "Kittyhawks and Coconuts". Page 138.
Group of decorated Pacific pilots gathered together at a reunion at RNZAF Station, Ardmore.
L-R: Back; Pilot Officer R Martin, Flight Lieutenant JJ de Willimoff,Flying Officer RA Weber.
Front; Flying Officer AM Davis, Squadron Leader MT Vanderpump, Flying Officer AG George.
See Contact Magazine, July 1944, pages 26-29.
Group of decorated Pacific pilots gathered together at a reunion. RNZAF Station, Ardmore.
L-R: Flying Officer RA Weber, Flying Officer AG George, Squadron Leader MT Vanderpump, Flight Lieutenant JJ de Willimoff, Pilot Officer R Martin, Flying Officer AM Davis. See Contact Magazine, July 1944, pages 26-29.
