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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 3, 2011 20:05:41 GMT 12
Some great photos are currently coming out on various threads so I reckon it's time to have a dedicated sticky thread for RNZAF P-40 Kittyhawks and Warhawks. Some seen recently in the Wartime Aircraft With Nose Art and Nicknames thread - most if not all are originally RNZAF Official, thus credit to Air Force Museum of New Zealand: Gloria Lyon and Erica (Doug Clark Collection)  No. 4 Servicing Unit P-40's (Doug Clark Collection)  Next three from Brendon Deere. P-40's of No. 14 Squadron at Whenuapai   P-40's flown home by No. 19 Squadron at Waipapakauri  And some from the ESMA LEE thread: (photos from Allan Watson's collection)   Gloria Lyons crashed (via Kerry Foster)  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 3, 2011 21:34:53 GMT 12
Some from the album of Noel Hanna of No. 14 Squadron:     This info is taken from David Duxbury on Reply #129/130 on this thread: This is No. 14 Squadron at Torokina, on their third operational tour, period January - March 1944 in front of a P-40N. They arrived at Torokina on 10th and 11th February, on operations 12th Feb to 26th March. Nine of the squadron pilots ferried up a simliar number of new P40Ns, rest travelled up by air transport (with chauffeur!) You can spot the CO (Stan Quill) in middle row (centre), flanked by his two flight commanders (F/Ls L R (Lou or "Snow") Renolds, and E H (Errol) Brown). The Intelligence Officer in this case was P/O P W Blundell. Other pilots were: F/Os E L ("Butch") Avery, W M (Mort) Bullen, R A (Rex) Weber, W J (John) Polson, G S Treweek (killed on tour, 13/2/44, aerial collision), P (Pat) Molloy, W J McLeod, D W Cocks, R G (Ron) Bush, B S Hay, P S Tennent, N A Frew. P/Os D W (Doug) Robertson, N C (Neale) Sutherland. F/Sgt N E (Noel) Hanna (to P/O during tour - that's him back row second from right.) Sgts R A Barnett, H P Crump, G George, R P George, R F Howe, W D Smith, L C Strawbridge. At time this picture taken, E H Brown had been grounded sick just before end of tour, but is still in photo. Butch Avery was sent home sick on 29/1/44, so probably not in photo. Normal strength of a fighter squadron at this time was 27 pilots (six sections of four pilots each, plus 3 "spares"), and one intelligence officer. I should be able to provide names for everybody in this photo - does anybody else have a named print? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 3, 2011 21:36:42 GMT 12
Another from Noel's album:  |
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Post by Damon on Jul 3, 2011 21:42:40 GMT 12
Great pix's Dave.We are very lucky that some of these guy's have a camera with them.Thanks for posting them.
Damon
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 3, 2011 22:03:33 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 5, 2011 14:05:59 GMT 12
These are scanned from the late Graham Ronayne's collection but they are Air Force Musuem of New Zealand copyright: No. 14 (Fighter) Squadron trio: NZ3008 HQ-B "UMSLOPAGAAS" closest to camera NZ3036 HQ-Q NZ3007 HQ-A "MAGNOLIA MUFFLEWURT" (also see last photo in post above) Photographed by Leo White from a Harvard  NZ3040 JZ-I of No. 15 Squadron  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 5, 2011 14:29:53 GMT 12
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Post by strikemaster on Jul 5, 2011 15:29:30 GMT 12
Stunning pics, Dave. They really give a great sense of the era.
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Post by hairy on Jul 5, 2011 21:45:55 GMT 12
Great thread, if you don't mind I would like to add to it. Otherwise indicated, all photos are Whites Aviation. 1st up is a Whites composite photo from the Pacific, details unknown.  A couple of group shot from our favorite time-machine destination   Some different views of a formation of P-40s escorted by a Hudson on their way to Guadalcanal in July 1943 over-taking the Hudson photo platform.    Some alternate views of the formation already posted with NZ3008 'Umslopogaas' prominent.   NZ3008 'Umslopogaas' banking away from the photo aircraft.  NZ3038 over Howick.  NZ3082 at Rukuhia.  NZ3102 at Ohakea, January 1946. (Photographer unknown) NZ3136 at Rukuhia.   I will post more over the next few evenings.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 5, 2011 22:24:23 GMT 12
Superb stuff Marcus, thaks for posting these. It is always neat to see other shots from photoshoots where there's usually only one or two famous shots seen everywhere.
The shot of the Rukuhia aircraft where one has a perfect US roundel on the wing, ie like it was never overpainted like the others, is very interesting.
Marcus did you get my message from a couple of months back regarding the other chap with another collection of Leo White photos? I never heard back from you. He was keen to hear from you.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Jul 6, 2011 7:45:42 GMT 12
Wow some great shots there.
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Post by hairy on Jul 6, 2011 20:34:02 GMT 12
Sorry Dave, I missed your message. Was it a PM or an e-mail? Meanwhile, here are some more P-40s................... NZ3210  NZ3246  NZ3253  NZ3256     NZ3259  NZ3264  I haven't been able to identify this P-40 sitting in the field of dreams....................   ..............or this one.  |
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Post by eieio on Jul 6, 2011 20:44:13 GMT 12
Will our digitals be as well preserved in 70 years. Amazing .
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 6, 2011 21:43:41 GMT 12
Great shots again there Marcus, though really sad after those of their glory days further up the thread.
That message was emailed to you on the 5th of May. I will PM it to you again now.
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Post by curtiss on Jul 7, 2011 22:46:07 GMT 12
NZ3038 crash landing at Manakau. RNZAF Official.   NZ3061 via C Darby "RNZAF First decade.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 7, 2011 23:08:07 GMT 12
Wow that looks to have been a fierce fire on NZ3038. I hope the pilot was ok. Thanks for these shots.
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Post by errolmartyn on Jul 8, 2011 11:02:22 GMT 12
NZ3038 I hope the pilot was ok. The 2 OTU pilot, Fg Off Patrick Arthur Bull, was indeed OK and uninjured. He was also commended for his action in carrying out a forced landing when his engine, starved of fuel, caught fire in the air due to a broken connecting rod which broke the sump, on 13 Oct 1943. Errol |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 8, 2011 11:34:57 GMT 12
Thanks for that Errol. Is that Mangere where he landed?
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Post by errolmartyn on Jul 8, 2011 13:07:17 GMT 12
Thanks for that Errol. Is that Mangere where he landed? Dave, Sorry, I should have said - he landed 'on beach near Manakau, Wellington'. Errol |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 8, 2011 14:51:58 GMT 12
Ah right, I was thinking Manukau. Cheers.
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