IMAGE
Men of 208 Light Anti Aircraft Battery on Nissan Island
- Date
- February 1944
- Reference
- WH-0536-F
- Description
Soldiers of the 208 Light Anti Aircraft Battery grouped around their gun on Nissan Island. Photographed by an unknown photographer in February 1944.
Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - NZEF IP. Activities of New Zealand troops on Nissan Island. B 2119. Light Ack Ack personnel photographed at Nissan. This gun and guncrew, while stationed at Treasury, were credited with a Jap plane. Official war photograph.
This gun and guncrew were credited with the only Japanese plane shot down on Mono Island.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative, 12.3 x 10 cm
Transfers: A photographic print with digitised access copy is held at Library reference PAColl-5547-031..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - WH Series
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, 12.3 x 10 cm
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