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[Creator unknown] :[Air and naval patrols, New Zealand and Tasman Sea, 21st-25th August...
Date: 1940
From: Waters, Sydney David, 1883-1965 : Maps from Papers
Reference: MapColl-800hkm/1940/Acc.49791
Description: Chart of Tasman Sea and New Zealand (142E-170E, 27S-53S) showing the routes of air and naval patrols searching for the German raider Orion which had sunk the N.Z. Steamship Company steamer Turakina in the Tasman Sea. Aircraft were: flying boat Awarua from Auckland, 21st, 22nd and 25th August; flying boat Aotearoa from Auckland 21st August; DH 89s from Kerikeri. Naval patrols: HMS Archilles 21st-23rd August; Stewart Island patrol 23rd August; Wellington approaches patrol 25th August; Captn Mercer's patrol, north of Northland, 22nd & 23rd August; HMAS Perth, Sydney to mid-Tasman then Bass Strait. The patrols around Stewart Island and Wellington were carried out because signals had been detected from another German ship. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on photographic paper, 27.5 x 38 cm.
No 30 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Gisborne, New Zealand.
Date: [ca 1942]
From: Bowden, Beverley :Album of photographs of RNZAF in World War 2
Reference: 1/2-174920-F
Description: Group photograph of the Ground Staff of No 30 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Behind them can be seen the propellar and front end of Grumman Avenger aircraft. Photographed at Gisborne by an unknown photographer about 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative, 12.5 x 10cm Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is held in the Photograph Archive at PAColl-3704.
Photograph of Flight 1B, Squadron 1, Levin
Date: May 1941
From: Sullivan, Thomas Gilbert, 1920-2003 :Photographs
Reference: 1/2-174385-F
Description: Group portrait of Flight 1B, Squadron 1, pilot training course at Levin, taken May 1941 by an unidentified photographer. Includes trainee pilot T G Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Finding Aids: Photocopy at PAColl-3213.
Photograph album
Date: 1939-1954
From: Barrett, Brian Edward, 1923-1975: Photographs relating to service with the Royal Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Reference: PA1-f-314
Description: Photograph album compiled by Brian Barrett, ca 1950s. The photographs relate to Barrett's service with the Royal Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force in England, Burma, Malaya, and India during World War II; and his interest in model aviation; and family vacation in 1954. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, 51 x 38 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Barrett, Brian Edward, 1922-1975; Papers (MS-Group-1822). Loose photographs from the album are now in PAColl-10514. 1 strip of unrelated colour negatives (unidentified group of men and women) at 35mm-102773.