Catalina (Seaplane)

Date: [1939-1945]

Reference: PA1-q-1024

Description: Shows scenes in Waiouru, Empire air Training scheme in Canada, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, and Japan. Taken and collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1944-1945

By: Forrester, Ian James, active 1944-1997

Reference: PAColl-5612

Description: Photographs taken by I J Forrester while serving as a radio operator with No 6 Squadron, RNZAF, which operated Catalina flying boats from Halavo Bay, Florida Islands, Solomon Islands. Mr Forrester served with the Squadron from Christmas 1944 until about November 1945. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-179924 to 179952-F Quantity: 6 photocopy/ies. 29 b&w original negative(s).

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/15-F

Description: Raising of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/13-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/02-F

Description: Men on a floating crane, raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1927, 1938-1956

From: 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-145

Description: Most photographs contain captions &/or dates. Series of photographs taken during the Duke of York's visit to Wigram in 1927 (includes display of Bristol and Avro airplanes); series of photographs taken during and after the rugby match played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between RNZAF and NZ Army - Includes group photo of RNZAF team (all named); Eric Tindall introducing Minister of Defence Hon F Jones to teams; several taken during the game. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for UK in NZ being introduced to NZ airmen returned from overseas; RNZAF band at a wartime fundraising garden party held at Dr Herbert's on The Terrace, Wellington , ca 1942; RNZAF Station Band playing at Wigram, ca 1940; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten with Wing Commander J Checketts, Apr 1946. Three photos taken during the laying of the RNZAF colour at the Anglican Church, Golville, Wanganui (Group Captain C Turner & Rev Culpitt), ca 1947; Squadron Leader G Evatt & Air Vice Marshal C Kay, 1953; band at Ohakea, 1958; Governor General Lord Freyberg with Group Captain A B Greenaway (CO Wigram), 1949; Group Captain F R Dix with TAF officers at RNZAF Station Ohakea, 1950 Photo of Kingsford-Smith Memorial Gift Ambulance, 1948; RNZAF station at Wigram under construction, 1930s; DC-3 aircraft during supply drop training over Wigram, 1948; Squadron Leader Creichton, Flight Lieut Herrick and Flight Lieut Gibson; Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Milson, 1943 (named on back); meal during visit of Air Commodore G T Jarman to special ATC summer camp at Milson (includes Squadron Leader T Lester & Wing Commander G A Nicholls, Commandant of the Air Training Corps), and inspecting the school unit cadets 1944 Air Commodore G Vincent, acting Chief of Air Staff in the absence of Air Commodore R Goddard, discussing flight arrangements with Wing Commander R J Cohen and Squadron Leader Fisher at Whenuapai, Oct 1944; Air Vice Marshal R V Goddard, Chief of Air Staff at his desk, ca 1941-1943; Governor General Lord Cobham saluting the Queen's colour of the RNZAF during a parade; view of RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942 showing airmen on parade; unidentified group photo; members of RNZAF marching through streets of Wellington; group photo taken outside officers mess, Wigram (all named), ca 1948; portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Nevill; Squadron Leader G S Evatt with General John Doolittle on ANZAC Day 1956 at Ohakea; group photo taken at Wigram 1936 standing in front of Vildebreeste aircraft; surplus Harvard training aircraft in storage at Wigram, 1945; Catalina flying boat on a reconnaissance patrol; American Kittyhawks and NZ pilots; Mr Churchill's `York' aircraft (Avro) at Ohakea with Squadron Leader & Mrs Evatt standing beside a plane; a de Havilland being refuelled, 1937; Sunderland flying boats on the water and over NZ coast. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/14-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/05-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1943-1948

From: 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-147

Description: Most photographs contain captions; some are stamped `Official RNZAF photographs'. Group photograph of a conference of padres in the RNZAF held at Frederic Wallis House, Lower Hutt, 1944 (all named on back); NZ Fighter Wing `score board' at New Georgia, Nov 1943 to record number of Japanese aircraft hit (group around the board includes Air Commodore S Wallington, Wing Commander T O Freeman, Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Major General H E Barrowclough); RNZAF Band playing outside the USA hospital, Guadalcanal, 1944 (W/O R H Simpson conducting); Wings Parade - Course 61 medal presentation (Squadron Leader E T Mileski, Squadron Leader J R Welsh, Air Commodore A de T Nevill, LAC Johnson), Nov 1942; fighter pilots on return from battle in SW Pacific war zone, 1944; F/O R C Beazer of Feilding and P/O Letourneau of Canada (both of NZ RAF Mosquito Fighter Bomber Squadron). First NZ airmen repatriated from German hands welcomed by Air Vice Marshal L M Isitt and Air Secretary T A Barrow (group includes Warrant Officers D C Allen, J I B Walker and H M English); RNZAF ground crew on an amphibious truck (called a `Duck'); Lockheed Hudson bomber crew reporting back from a reconnaissance flight over the Solomons area; group photo of NZ Catalina flying boat crew, 1945 (all named); pilots being briefed before a `strike', Guadalcanal, 19 Jun 1943; RNZAF Corsair aircraft flying in formation at Guadalcanal, 1944. Catalina flying boats and RNZAF band on visit to Halavo Bay, the seaplane base in the Solomon Islands, 1944; Dakota aircraft at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1944; YMCA `tea truck' serving RNZAF ground crew who are maintaining Kittyhawks; Wing Commander de Willimoff and others in flying suits beside Corsair aircraft; group beside a Kittyhawk (includes Squadron Leader Newton); group photo of flight mechanics and riggers on airstrip in Pacific (all named); Brigadier General R L Owens, Deputy-Commanding-General, 13th Air Force, USAAF, presenting the American Distinguished Flying Cross to Flying Officer M T Vanderpump, ca 1943; Air Commodore Sir Robert Clarke-Hall talking with Major General R J Mitchell, USMC, prior to latter's departure from Bougainville (others in photo include Air Commodore G N Roberts, Wing Commander A B Greenaway & Wing Commander H R Wigley); Christmas Day in the mess hall, 1942; group of NZ pilots having a `Smoko' during Battle of Bougainville, 1943 (some name on front in ballpoint); aftermath on Bougainville (aerial photo of Japanese barge on beach); men of the RNZAF on board the `Wahine' at Torokina, Bougainville bound for NZ. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/09-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 28 Sep to 4 Nov 2004 - 28 Sep 2004 - 04 Nov 2994

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Edhouse, William John, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0938-03

Description: Interview with William (Bill) Edhouse, born in Ohakune in 1922. Talks about his father, who was a sawmiller and saw doctor, and had land which he cleared of bush and gardened as well as leasing some to Chinese market gardeners. Backgrounds the basic living conditions in Ohakune during his boyhood, living off the land, making butter at home and killing their own meat. Mentions attending the local convent school, woodwork classes, and being inquisitive. Comments on attending a Marist Brothers school and beginning training as a teacher at Claremont. Refers to working for a small concrete construction company strengthening road bridges when Waiouru military camp was built in the early 1940s. Talks in detail about his war-time experiences. Discusses spending six weeks in the Territorials and then joining the Air Force and going to the Initial Training Wing at Rotorua in June 1942. Talks about training as a wireless operator and gunner at Milson and Ohakea and then being posted to a joint Air Force-Army unit at Onerahi near Whangarei. Comments on flying surveillance patrols from Whangarei before transferring to No 30 Squadron at Gisbourne in August 1943 to prepare to fly in torpedo bombers, where he flew as an observer and bomb aimer. Discusses training in aircraft and ship recognition, unlike the Americans, and problems with friendly fire in the Pacific. Talks about being transferred to 30 Squadron at Whenuapai for bomber reconnaissance in Venturas and his role as a turret gunner. Discusses his deployment in No 1 Squadron to Guadalcanal in October 1943 and their anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols, a mine-laying operation, and bombing raids on Japanese positions. Refers to the coast watchers, and discusses pilots he flew with. Recalls weather reconnaissance flights during the monsoon season. Discusses the Japanese anti-aircraft defences at Rabul. Talks about their relationships with American forces they were stationed with and being supplied with food and equipment by the Americans. Mentions a Catholic chaplin Father Ainsworth. Recalls the end of his first tour in March 1944, having home leave with his family, and being transferred to No 9 Squadron for his second tour of duty in the Pacific. Comments on his next posting to the No 6 Flying Boat Squadron and flying in Catalinas on very long reconnaissance operations based in the Solomon Islands. Covers their humanitarian work resupplying hospitals and mission stations on islands. Refers to a difficult flight back to New Zealand in a Catalina through a tropical storm. Mentions doing control tower work for a period before he was discharged from the Air Force. Relates how he trained as a carpenter in New Plymouth after the war, building state houses, and his own home. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Accompanying material - Photocopy of Bill Edworth's flying log book Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017201 - OHC-017209 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s). 9 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 9 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-6149, OHDL-000393. Search dates: 1922 - 1939 - 2004 - 1945

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/04-F

Description: Men working to raise the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/03-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/07-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/11-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/10-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/08-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/112/12-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1920s-1960s]

By: Bridle, Marcus, 1970-

Reference: ATL-Group-00049

Description: A collection of photographic negatives and prints of mainly New Zealand civil and military aircraft, taken by unknown photographers, possibly between 1920s to 1960s. It is not known when the collection was assembled. The earliest images are of an airplane that flew from Invercargill to Auckland in 1921, which appear to have been taken at the conclusion of that flight. The largest part of the collection is two sequences of negatives, one of New Zealand civil aircraft and one of New Zealand military aircraft (which also includes some images of Australian, British, American, and Canadian registered aircraft). The original glassine enclosures for the negatives had either typed or handwritten identification of the images, in most cases. Although many of the negative enclosures that are not typed are labelled in the same hand in black ink, some are labelled in blue ballpoint pen, which may have been done after the collection was assembled. Frequently there was also a set of initials in the bottom left corner of the envelope; either 'WP', 'KM' or 'LD'. The latter was almost always followed by a 'N' and a three digit number. It is possible that 'KM' is Ken Meehan, who photographed aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s; 'WP' may be William Penelligan, who was active in Mangere in the mid-1950s, and worked in the publishing section at White's Aviation. The initals 'LD' are Les Downey, who worked at TEAL and also in the publishing section at White's Aviation. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Leo White or other staff of White's Aviation. Typically the images are identified by the registration identifier only; sometimes accompanied by a three or four digit number. Some of the enclosures identify when and where the photographs were taken, and those are mainly at air shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at Mangere, Waharoa, Whenuapai, Rukuhia, Hobsonville, Ardmore, and Rongotai airfields. The collection also includes photographic prints of aircraft and related subjects, most of which appear to be images from the negatives, and a sequence of prints and negatives originally kept together in labelled envelopes. Arrangement: The negatives were originally arranged in two sequences (New Zealand civil and miltary aircraft) in two metal two-drawer index card cabinets. Most of the prints were purchased by the vendor loose in a box, and he arranged them into sequences according to subject and/or markings on the backs of the prints. There was one sequence of prints and negatives together in labelled envelopes. Quantity: 2724 b&w original negative(s). 413 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The collection had been in the vendor's possession for about five years. It was purchased by the vendor from a second-hand bookshop in Onehunga. It is possible that it came to the bookshop from the estate of William Penelligan, photographer of aircraft and a member of the Aviation Historical Society. It is also possible that the photographs were originally the collection of Whites Aviation, and were used in the production of the company's aviation-related magazines.

Date: Date unknown

From: Bridle, Marcus, 1970-: Photographs of New Zealand aircraft and related subjects

Reference: 1/4-127840-F

Description: Shows a group of aircraft. Title transcribed from item enclosure. Note on centre of enclosure: 'S.P. General C HP3'. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white original negative, approximately 7 x 11.5 cm