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The commander-in-chief takes to the air. Dame Catherine Tizard's inspection of Ohakea Air Force Base included a flight in an Aermacchi MB 339C jet trainer.
New Zealanders in the air - D-Day
New Zealanders in the Royal Air Force
Notes and questions, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force - war oral history programme
New Zealanders in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force
As it got lighter and lighter you could see more ships and more ships, behind you and ahead of you – and the French coast was covered in smoke, but you knew it was there.
Jack Ingham, lieutenant, DSC, Royal Navy
They said, – We've been losing fifty to sixty bombers a night. We're badly in need of bomber pilots. We want you fellas to be bomber pilots.
John Morris, flight lieutenant, 75(NZ) Squadron, RAF
James Stellin memorial
This memorial to New Zealand Pilot Officer James Stellin was erected at Saint-Maclou-la-Brière, a small village in the Seine-Maritime region of Normandy, in 1964. It was here, on 19 August 1944, that Stellin gave his own life to save the village's inhabitants.
Lancaster bomber between sorties
Royal Air Force ground crew clean a Lancaster bomber between sorties. Many of the thousands of New Zealanders serving in Bomber Command flew these planes.
Imperial War Museum, TR 188
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