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United States servicemen at a milkbar run by the Red Cross in the Hotel Cecil, corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth St, Wellington, between 1942 and 1944.

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, arrived at Ōhakea air base at the start of a whirlwind 24-hour visit to New Zealand. He was the first United States President to visit this country.

‘LBJ’, as he was commonly known, had been stationed in New Zealand and Australia during the Second World War, when he flew as an observer on bomber missions in the South Pacific. His return in 1966 was primarily to shore up support for the war in Vietnam.

Camp Hale was a large US forces camp located in the Auckland Domain. Because it covered a large area the camp was divided into two satellite camps: Inner- and Outer-Camp Hale. Outer-Camp Hale (pictured above) was located in front of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Its 15 buildings housed 750 US Army personnel.

The smiling faces of US marines soon after their arrival in Wellington on 14 June 1942. They are on board the train which is to take them to their camp at Paekākāriki.

Two American privates partner two women from the New Zealand army on an Easter trip to Ōrākei Kōrako, between Rotorua and Taupō.