Image from the Hugh Grigg personal collection.
No. 1 Servicing Unit personnel queueing for a drink beside truck MT2531, in front of Corsair NZ5321 inside a temporary hangar. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the reverse "Triangle Joe, Kukum Field, Guadalcanal."
NB. "Triangle" above refers to the YMCA.
Image from the Neville Francis Roderick Joynt personal collection.
Unknown service man standing in a bomb crater while two others sit in RNZAF Jeep MT1042. Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the reverse "US Bomb crater on C. Esperance Rd G'Canal."
Copy. Group of American officers from the
Admiral CW Nimitz (Commander-in-Chief Pacific)(5th from right) with some of his staff officers, at Guadalcanal for a
COMAIRSOPAC conference.
L-R: Commander Compton USN (Admiral Nimitz’s Engineering Officer in Sub-Division 20), General Peck USMC, Captain WM Callaghan USN, Lieutenant HA Lamar USNR, Captain DC Redman USN, Air Commodore RV Goddard RNZAF, Admiral CW Nimitz (Commander-in-Chief Pacific), Captain RA Ofstie USN, Major General AA Vandegrift USMC, Brigadier General Roy Geiger USMC, Colonel OT Pfeiffer USMC.
Copy. Group of No. 14 Squadron pilots having their supper in a tent on Guadalcanal.
L-R: Flight Lieutenant HA Eaton (part obscured), Squadron Leader JS Nelson, Flying Officer KJ MacDonald, Flying Officer LR "Snow" Renolds, Flight Lieutenant HR Wigley, Pilot Officer WJ Polson, Pilot Officer RA Weber, Flying Officer AG Sievers.
John Nelson was Commanding Officer of No. 16 Squadron at the time of No. 16 Squadron relieving No. 14 Squadron in July 1943.
Names supplied by Peter Gifford, ex No. 14 Squadron.
See original negative PR1155.
Squadron Leader HR Wigley, Commanding Officer of No. 19 Squadron. Presumed to be RNZAF Station, Whenuapai.
This image is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station Ardmore.
Two No. 19 Squadron pilots at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
Flight Lieutenant JR Court (left) and Squadron Leader HR Wigley, Commanding Officer of No. 19 Squadron.
This image is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station, Ardmore.
Two No. 19 Squadron pilots at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
Flight Lieutenant JR Court (left) and Squadron Leader HR Wigley, Commanding Officer of No. 19 Squadron.
This image is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station, Ardmore.
Squadron Leader HR Wigley, Commanding Officer of No. 19 Squadron. Presumed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
This is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station, Ardmore.
Group of No. 19 Squadron personnel relaxing after a flight. Presumed to be Royal New Zealand Air Force Station Whenuapai.
This is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station Ardmore.
Group of No. 19 Squadron personnel relax and share a joke with a member of the WAAF. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
This is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station Ardmore.
Group of No. 19 Squadron personnel relax and share a joke with a member of the WAAF. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
This is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to Station Ardmore.
No. 19 Squadron pilot, Flight Lieutenant James Ralph Court DFC, in the cockpit of a Kittyhawk. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
This is presumed to have been taken during a brief stop-off, at the time of the Squadron ferrying their 'tired' aircraft from Guadalcanal, back to RNZAF Station Ardmore.
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."
