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Operation Scuttle 2: Sink the Arahura!

In January 1952 eight de Havilland Mosquito aircraft attacked and sunk retired passenger ferry TSS Arahura in Cook Strait as part of Operation Scuttle 2.

Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg VC DFC – submarine hunter

Sergeant James Allen Ward VC – fearless wing walker

New to the Collection

Discover some of the newest additions to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand collection.

D-Day Stories: Edward Atkinson

Flight Sergeant Edward Harry Frederick Atkinson from Taranaki is thought to be New Zealand’s first D-Day casualty.

D-Day Stories – Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham

As the overall commanding officer of 2nd Tactical Air Force, Sir Arthur Coningham was responsible for planning and supporting the D-Day operation by air.

Eighty Years On: Remembering the Forgotten Air Force, Imphal and Kohima, 1944

Stories of service and sacrifice

Discover stories of service and sacrifice from Kiwis who helped shape New Zealand’s military aviation story.

We will remember them: interviews with New Zealand’s last wartime aviators

While unable to hold our usual Anzac Day service at the Air Force Museum for Anzac Day 2022, it is a fitting opportunity to share with you some newly-edited interviews with some of the last RNZAF veterans of World War Two: Ron Hermanns, Bryan Cox, Max Collett, Maurice Mayston, and Alan Deere (interview with his nephew Brendon).

A Sense Of Humour

Humour is a subject not often raised in the area of military history. Yet some of the strongest traditions and cultural legacies of military service – including those of our own Air Force – are full of inside jokes in line books, silly songs, famous (and infamous) fictional cartoon characters and countless visual gags.
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