Los Negros

Date: Apr 1945, 1957

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-4161-01-189

Description: Series of captioned photographs taken Apr 1945 showing medical headquarters at Los Negros; casualty room, laboratory, patients in Ward 1, and operating room at [Guadal]canal; Medical Section 25 and 30 S.U. Camp Piva, Bougainville; Rotorua convalescent Includes letter from P L D Cummins, Sqn.Ldr. (for Group Captain, Commanding), RNZAF Station Ohakea, relating to the photographs, 10 Oct 1957 Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1945

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-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1 Oct to 4 Nov 2004 - 01 Oct 2004 - 04 Nov 2004

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Turnbull, Desmond Harold, 1921-2008

Reference: OHInt-0938-08

Description: Interview with Des (Desmond) Turnbull, born in Stratford in 1921. Reminisces on growing up in Stratford, attending local schools, the Depression, his father's bespoke tailoring business, singing in the church choir, seaside excursions by train to New Plymouth, silent movies and dances for teenagers. Comments on working in a drapery and menswear store after leaving school, and volunteering for the Territorial Army in 1940 where he had to learn to ride when he was posted to the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles. Refers to conscription into the Army in January 1942, by now the horses had gone, training in Bren gun carriers and tanks, and promotion to sergeant. Comments on church parades and chaplains. Talks about volunteering for the Air Force in June 1942, though not transferred until mid 1943. Refers to initial training at Harewood, followed by training at Woodbourne and Rotorua, then going to Ashburton to learn to fly in Tiger Moths and Woodbourne to fly Harvards, learning instrument flying, aerial gunnery and bombing. Mentions getting his wings in November 1944 and posting to an operational training unit at Ohakea in January 1945 where he flew P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft. Refers to a Corsair conversion course at Ardmore in March 1945 where he crashed an aircraft during landing. Talks about assignment to No. 17 Fighter Squadron and deployment to Los Negros (Manos Island) in the Admiralty Islands in May when the War was waning, and not seeing any real action against the enemy. Comments that one recreational activity of the New Zealanders was picking over the American rubbish dump nearby. Refers to being on dawn patrol when word of the Japanese capitulation come through, and flying their aircraft back to New Zealand in September 1945. Briefly outlines setting up a dry cleaning business in Stratford with a brother and the difficulties they had getting machinery. Comments on marrying in 1946, and taking a rehabilitation carpentry course at Wanganui in 1950. Mentions going into whiteware sales for a period, then training at Knox Theological College in the late 1950s to be a Presbyterian minister. Compares leadership styles in the armed forces and in a parish. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Accompanying material - Photocopy of Des Turnbull's Pilot's flying log book Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017247 - OHC-017253 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000398, OHA-6156. Search dates: 1921 - 1939 - 2004 - 1945

Date: 9 Jun 1942-23 May 1945

From: Franks, Cecil William, 1912-1990: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11648-08

Description: Letters written by Cecil Franks to his wife Eunice, during his service in World War II. Includes correspondence from Noumea and Manila. Contains an account of travelling from Los Negros Island to Manila via Biak, the Caroline Islands, and Leyte, as well as extensive description of war-torn Manila. Franks description includes the ongoing conflict with the retreating Japanese forces, the destruction of buildings and other scenes of desolation, and the massacre of Filipino civilians at Intramuros walled city. Other - See MS-Papers-11648-03 for currency and stamps mentioned on pages 16 and 33 on letter dated 19 May 1945 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: MSS, typescript, printed matter Processing information: Access requirement for permission of the Chief Librarian removed 3 May 2022.

Date: 1941-1946

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

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd; Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-193

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: RNZAF Station, Taeiri; Ardmore; Nelson; Harewood; Hamilton; Wigram; Rutland Street, Ohakea; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Wellington; Waipapakauri; RNZAF Station Delta; New Plymouth; RNZAF Accommodation Camp, Anderson Park; HMS Tamaki; HMNZS Cook (Shelly Bay). Photographs of Dental Section at Los Negros (Manus Island); Lauthala Bay, Fiji; Egypt (1941). Caravan trailer, 1946 (taken by A G Sparrow); Mobile Dental Unit on manoeuvres in NZ, 1942; 4 NZ Field Ambulance (Dental Section) at Castelfrentano, Italy; Dental store at Wellington, 1945. Series of captioned photographs of NZ Adv Base Hygiene Section. Includes methods of food storage, pest control, refuse disposal, portable latrine; Camp Maadi; personnel of 6 NZ Div Hyg Section prior to forming of NZ Adv. Base Hyg. & Maadi Camp Hyg Section, Dec 1943; photo of Major Knights (OC 4 Field Hygiene Coy) & Major Kay (OC NZ Adv Base Hyg. Section), 1944 Collection of photographs separated out for use in the publication `The New Zealand Dental Services' compiled by T V Anson (Official history of NZ in the Second World War), 1960. Includes: Mobile Dental Section in the field at Whangarei (photo by B Snowden); drawing of camp site and plan No 10 Mobile Dental Section, Solomon Islands (key to aerial photo); contents of prosthetic pannier; contents of surgical pannier; mobile prosthetic laboratory being loaded on board a transport ship bound for Egypt, 1941; No 2 Dental Section, Bougainville, 1945; Dental Headquarters, Guadalcanal; No 2 Maxillo-facial Injury Section with CCS in Guadalcanal; No 10 Mobile Dental Section in Guadalcanal; Dental Section in native bure, Fiji; 4 Field Ambulance Dental Section, Alamein; mobile unit on way to Syria; Lieut Col O E L Rout; several photos of dental sections in NZ as listed above. Quantity: 293 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14813-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14801-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14798-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14811-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 8 Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14915-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14802-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14812-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 8 Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14916-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14799-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Aug 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14800-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative