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Post by alanw on Sept 4, 2010 20:28:19 GMT 12
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Sept 5, 2010 8:32:57 GMT 12
Looks like you need a login & password to access the photo....
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 6, 2010 10:36:32 GMT 12
Yes I tried too but no luck
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Post by alanw on Sept 6, 2010 16:23:46 GMT 12
Lets try this the old fashioned way
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2010 16:38:07 GMT 12
RNZAF P-40N taking off from Torokina in 1944, apparently. I have seen the photo before on another forum, WIX. It was a USAAF Official photo so now has no copyright on it.
I suspect the other coloured RNZAF P-40N photos around, such as in RNZAF: The First Decade, were taken by the same photographer at the same time.
I have signed up to the forum, thanks for the tip Alan. What page are the RNZAF Avengers on? They take so long to open all the photos on my dial up.
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Post by alanw on Sept 6, 2010 17:20:36 GMT 12
Hi Dave Sorry, in re-reading my above comments I see how they are misleading re the TBF's, I was more referring to the RNZAF TBF you can see in the background of the P 40 photo Apologies to all!! The site has some good photos, and on occassion you will catch some RNZAF/related models. Last month a modeller from the US posted some photos of the white Zero ( Auckand Museum one) in surrender markings, and the Jake that sank at it's moorings (see under completed model section). www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/your-completed-kits/another-captured-zero-25714.htmlRegards Alan
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2010 17:46:24 GMT 12
I doubt that any RNZAF Avengers are in that photo, they were never based at Torokina, only at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo and then at Piva, Bougainville.
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Post by alanw on Sept 6, 2010 18:03:28 GMT 12
I doubt that any RNZAF Avengers are in that photo, they were never based at Torokina, only at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo and then at Piva, Bougainville. Oooops ;D ;D ;D ;D Ah well, it's a nice photo of an RNZAF P40 ;D ;D Thanks Dave for that, seeing that TBF on the runway edge, just assumed it would have been an RNZAF one too - got to swat up on my history ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2010 20:00:02 GMT 12
The US Navy used hundreds of Avengers and Dauntless from land bases for making attacks on Japanese bases, such as Rabaul. Our fighters were usually their close escorts. in fact some of the US Navy Avenger and Dauntless squadrons refused to fly missions without the RNZAF Fighter Wing as their close escorts.
To be fair to you Alan it could indeed possibly be a visiting RNZAF Avenger from Piva I guess, I just think it's much more likely to be a US example.
The RNZAF Avengers first went to the Pacific in February 1944 with No. 30 Squadron to Santo, and to Bougainville in March 1944. Torokina is also on Bougainville of course, and the photo is alleged to have been taken in April 1944. Torokina's strip ceased to be an operational RNZAF base in October 1944. I'm not certain of the date the last P-40's operated there, or whether our Corsairs actually flew from Torokina.
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chook
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Post by chook on Sept 6, 2010 20:03:28 GMT 12
Hi, yes this is a great picture, also appears in a book by Jeffrey Ethell called P-40 Warhawk in WW2 color.
Caption goes: A Royal New Zealand Air Force Kittyhawk just airborne off Fighter Strip #1 At Bougainville, Solomon Islands, April 1944. Across this view out of Garnett Tower are Avengers, Aircobras and Lightnings. Sourced from the "National Archives".
Interesting J Ethell was killed in a P-38 in the ninety's, first time on the type, ran out of gas on one engine and went in.
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Post by davidd on Jul 19, 2019 15:09:15 GMT 12
Interesting to see reference to possibility of RNZAF TBFs in that colour photograph. It is possible, but their usual location was at the Piva bomber field, and do not recall any mention in their unit history of their TBFs ever flying from Torokina. We do know that RNZAF PV-1s occasionally operated from Torokina, but don't think I have ever seen a photograph of them there. David D
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