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Rows of Royal New Zealand Air Force members, Rongotai, Wellington
- Date
- 1942
- Reference
- 1/2-106363-F
- Description
Rows of uniformed Royal New Zealand Air Force members standing in front of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition buildings, Rongotai, Wellington. Photograph taken in 1942.
The RNZAF set up a Recruiting Centre and an Initial Training school for pilots, observers and air gunners in the old Centennial Exhibition buildings in September 1939. By 1940 the buildings also housed the Technical Training School. (Information from `The history of New Zealand aviation' by Ross Ewing and Ross Macpherson, Heinemann, 1986, pages 122, 128)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evatt, G S: Photographs, chiefly regarding the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Orientation: Horizontal image
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