New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
List of Illustrations
page xi
page xiv
List of Illustrations
Unless otherwise stated, the photographs come from the Imperial War Museum collection
A Wellesley bomber flies over Eritrea to attack Keren | Frontispiece |
Following page 100 | |
A Hurricane prepares to take off from a desert airfield | |
An Australian Gladiator patrol returns to its base | |
A bomber is re-armed | |
Italian cruiser San Giorgio on fire in Tobruk harbour | |
Derna airfield after an RAF raid | |
Flooded ‘bivvy’ | |
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, AOC-in-C Middle East | |
Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham and Lieutenant-General | |
Sir Bernard Montgomery | |
Boston bombers take off in formation | |
A ‘Shark Squadron’ Kittyhawk | |
‘Bombing up’ a Halifax | |
Servicing a Wellington bomber | |
Salvage convoy drivers wait for their evening meal | |
Beaufighter attacks an enemy train, October 1942 | |
Salvage crews collect destroyed German aircraft at Daba | |
airfield | |
Axis transport destroyed on the Derna road | |
Ploughed-up enemy airfield near Nofilia | |
A Hurricane tank-buster attacks enemy armour in Tunisia | |
A Baltimore squadron intelligence officer briefs aircrews | |
Arming a Wellington torpedo-bomber | page xii |
Grand Harbour, Malta | |
The air-raid warning flag flies over the operations room at Luqa | |
airfield | |
Spitfires on a Malta airfield | |
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, AOC-in-C Mediterranean, | |
with men of a Malta bomber crew | |
Takali airfield and dispersal areas, April 1942 | |
Baltimores fly in formation to attack gun positions near | |
Cassino | |
A bombed railway bridge at Arezzo | |
No. 111 Squadron Spitfires in Italy | |
Marauder crews in eastern Italy prepare to move off | |
United States Army Air Force bombers attack Naples harbour | |
South African Air Force Beaufighters make a rocket attack | |
on Lussin Island | |
Following page 214 | |
Buffaloes in flight, as seen from a Vildebeeste | |
Brewster Buffalo fighters at Singapore | |
No. 488 Fighter Squadron pilots at Singapore, December 1941 | Ministry of Information, Singapore |
SS Talthybius at a Singapore wharf escapes attack | F. A. McCarthy collection |
No. 67 Squadron group at Mingaladon | K. A. Rutherford collection |
No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron working on the | |
bomber strip at Tebrau | |
Ground crew of a Spitfire squadron in Burma erect a workshop during a minor monsoon | |
Sentinel aircraft being unloaded from an LCV | |
Vultee Vengeance dive-bomber on a forward airfield | |
Blenheims over Akyab | |
Indian troops in Burma prepare to board a troop-carrier | |
Loading a jeep | page xiii |
Over the Hump | |
Hurri-bomber pilots in Burma are briefed before take-off | |
Hurri-bomber destroys a bridge on the Tiddim road | |
A direct hit on a Japanese base in the Andaman Islands | |
RAF pilots off duty in Burma | |
Dakota drops supplies for Fourteenth Army south of the | |
Irrawaddy River | |
Liberators bomb Yenangyaung | |
The Myitnge bridge after attack by RAF Thunderbolts | |
Bombs straddle a bridge on the Moulmein-Bangkok railway | |
The bomb-shattered docks at Rangoon | |
A Beaufighter attack on a supply train near Kanbalu, Burma | |
Liberators bomb supply base at Armapure | |
The ‘Tree Tops’ Club – an RAF control tower in central | |
Burma | |
Remains of Japanese headquarters on Ramree Island | |
Indian troops collect supplies dropped at Mandalay | |
Air Vice-Marshal S. F. Vincent, Lord Louis Mountbatten and | |
Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim | |
The Kohima battlefield |