Flight Sergeant Allan Woodley (left) and volunteer Ray Chester riveting skin onto the tail plane of Hudson NZ2013. Air Force Museum of New Zealand, RNZAF Base Wigram.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Two service men standing beside the damaged wing of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Not broken, just bent."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudson taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)" and "Off on dawn patrol."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing."
All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Hudson NZ2037 after it crashed on landing into a USAAF Liberator at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Handwritten on the album page "Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Henderson Airfield" and "One of our kites that didn't make a perfect landing."
All crew survived: Flying Officer JL McPhail, Flying Officer JE Fullerton, Sergeant H Prosser, Sergeant Manttan, Sergeant Hinkley.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Another view, looking towards our jungle home."
Handwritten on the reverse "Camp was in jungle behind at top of hill."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and " "The Hangar"."
Handwritten on the reverse "Just an open area cut out of the jungle. 1942."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallilulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of our kites' on the strip taken from camp entrance."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Personnel from Squadron working on the port engine of a Hudson. Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of the boys at work??"
NB. Although this is on a page headed up "New Hebrides" the reverse of the print states Guadalcanal.
Group of executives at a Tasman Empire Airways conference. Unknown location.
L-R: TA Barrow (New Zealand Air Secretary), F Sherwood [?] (New Zealand Ministerial Secretary), NS Falla [?] (Chairman), CG White (Director), Hudson Fysh (director of TEAL), AE Rudder [?] (Vice-Chairman).
Air Training Corps personnel setting up a mobile instructional unit, a gun turret from a Hudson. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Milson, Palmerston North.
Air Training Corps cadets have a try in the mobile instructional unit, the gun turret from a Hudson. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Milson. Palmerston North.
Group. Airman Cadet School staff. RNZAF Base Woodbourne.
L-R: Back; unknown, Martyn, unknown, unknown, Seymour, unknown.
Middle; unknown, RR Kirkwood, K Bradshaw, NH Hudson, T Francis, unknown.
Front; N Herring, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown.
Names taken from nametags in the image.
No. 1 Squadron Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader HC Walker (left) and Air Commodore MW Buckley having a conversation on the tarmac in front of a Hudson. Guadalcanal.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Driver Hudson and Driver Cosgrove, from the Army Air Support Organisation, testing a radio at the forward camp in mountains in the Red Hills area.
Image from the Colin McRobert Kellahan personal collection.
Hudson, with wings removed being towed through a gate by a civilian truck. Unknown location in Canada.
Image from the Colin McRobert Kellahan personal collection.
RAAF(?) Hudson BW658 being towed across an airfield. Believed to be in Canada.
Handwritten on the reverse "Sgt Overton L. Lyons / 15878587 / A.P.O. 3005 / C/o Post Master / S.F. Calif."
Image from the Raymond Joseph Boag personal collection.
Air to surface view of a Royal Navy ship alongside a Kriegsmarine U Boat, viewed from an RAF Catalina.
Original RAF Official caption pasted to the reverse "C.2065. Battle of Atlantic. R.A.F. Force U Boat to Surrender.
A Hudson aircraft of the R.A.F. Coastal Command sighted and attacked a U Boat in the Atlantic recently (See Admiralty and Air Min. Communique, 8.9.41) A full gale was blowing and a heavy swell was running. There were no ships in the vicinity when the action took place. The U boat was forced to the surface in a badly-damaged condition and surrendered.
The Hudson was relieved by a Catalina aircraft of R.A.F. Coastal Command which patrolled over the U boat until the arrival of H.M. ships.
The weather was so bad that no boat could be lowered for several hours from H.M. ships, and they stood by keeping the submarine covered by their guns.
When the weather moderated the U boat was boarded, and her capture completed. The prize was taken in tow and brought into harbour.
H.M. ships arrive on the scene and keep vigil with their guns trained on the U boat. Heavy seas break over the submarine making it impossible for the watching ships to lower a boat."
Image from the MG Rudd personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of aircraft wreckage near the end of the runway at RNZAF Station Waipapakauri.
Handwritten on the reverse "Waipap. 1943. Hudson Bomber. Blew up from take off at six o'clock in mangrove marshes."
This is believed to be No. 1 Squadron Hudson NZ2064 which crashed on take off from Waipapakauri.
