Pacific Maps

[Dave Homewood]

Does anyone have any of the detailed target maps of the Solomon Islands area that the RNZAF were operating in, covering Bougainville, Buka, New Ireland, New Britain, etc, that have the various jungle and coastal villages marked on them?

I have some of the pilot's strip maps somewhere, but I cannot recall where I have stashed them away. If anyone has some of them, could you please scan them for me?

There are several target villages I have been looking at that do not appear on modern Google Maps. I am guessing the RNZAF attacks wiped some of them off the map.

[chook]

I have a few I can email you, prob this Sun or Mon though.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Chook! Much appreciated.

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[camtech]

Most of mine are with the Air Force museum. May have something still at home. In Australia now but will check when home next month.

[tbf2504]

Dave, I gave a whole folder of maps to Classic Flyers some years ago. Peter Layne should know where they are

[aircraftclocks]

I believe I have a few. I will have a look over the weekend.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks all.

[aircraftclocks]

Dave
I find I have a few maps from the war diaries.

They are outline drawing of various areas such as Gazelle Peninsula, New Holland, New Hanover, Bougainville, Open bay and New Britain.
They show places associated with missions on the day. Taken all together they will show all the places of your interest.

I will need to analyse them further to make more sense of them. 

Some show bombing, strafing restrictions / instructions in place at various times.

I have wondered what the targets were in the diaries as they are referred to by numbers rather than stated locations. I have an outline map of one target.

I have a few airfield maps and plans as well, some are unknown locations to me.

I have a detailed map for Gazelle Peninsula. If you combine the following images you will get all the coastal locations in the area.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=509887&T=P&S=132
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=509887&T=P&S=144
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=509887&T=P&S=162

[Dave Homewood]

Thank you very much to Chook, who emailed me some maps, and aircraftclocks for these very detailed ones you linked to above. They're all very useful. Any others that come up would be appreciated too. Cheers.