RNZAF
(Organisation)
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Mentioned in
- 26 Battalion
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- Chaplains
- Divisional Cavalry
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
- Index
- 203 — The Chief of the General Staff (Wellington) to the New Zealand Liaison Officer (London)
- 227 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the New Zealand Minister, Washington
- 229 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the New Zealand Minister, Washington
- Part IV. air
- 291 — The New Zealand Minister, Washington, to the Prime Minister
- 406 — Letter from Major-General Barrowclough to the Prime Minister — Report on Operations—3 NZ Division, August 1943–December 1943
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
- List of Illustrations
- III: Health of Troops
- V: Landing on Nissan Island
- XI: Medical Services with Tonga Defence Force
- XII: Medical Services with Norfolk Island Defence Force
- XIII: Medical Services with Fiji Defence Force
- I: Administration of Medical Services
- II: Medical Staffing
- III: Medical Examination of Recruits
- IV: Medical Investigation Unit
- V: Sickness in New Zealand
- VI: Aerodrome Construction Unit in Malaya, August 1941 – February 1942
- VII: Medical Services in the Pacific
- VIII: Malaria Control and Incidence of Sickness
- I: Administrative Control
- II: Training of the New Zealand Medical Corps
- IV: Hygiene and Sanitation
- V: Sickness in New Zealand Camps
- XI: Optician Service
- Glossary
- Index of Names
- General Index
- III: Recruitment of Medical Officers
- V: Recruitment of Nurses
- VI: Recruitment of Voluntary Aids
- XIII: Rehabilitation of Medical Officers
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
- CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
- CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
- CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
- CHAPTER 6 — Defeating the Night Raider
- CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
- CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
- CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
- CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
- CHAPTER 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
- CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
- CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
- CHAPTER 14 — Battle of the Atlantic, 1942
- CHAPTER 15 — Attacking Enemy Ships With Mine, Bomb and Torpedo
- CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
- CHAPTER 17 — Night Fighters, 1942
- Appendix III — STRENGHTHS AND CASUALTIES
- Glossary of Abbreviations
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- CHAPTER 1 — Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 — Aircraft against U-boat
- CHAPTER 3 — Bomber Command and the Battle of the Ruhr
- CHAPTER 4 — Longer-range Attacks
- CHAPTER 5 — With Mine, Bomb, and Torpedo
- CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
- CHAPTER 7 — Day-Fighters and Fighter-bombers
- CHAPTER 8 — Night Fighters
- CHAPTER 9 — Prelude to Invasion
- CHAPTER 10 — Normandy
- CHAPTER 11 — Flying Bombs and Rockets
- CHAPTER 12 — Forward to the Rhine
- CHAPTER 13 — Transport and Special Duties
- CHAPTER 14 — Bomber Command and the Battle of Germany
- CHAPTER 15 — Coastal Command Patrols
- CHAPTER 16 — The Last Phase
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force — (RNZAF attached and New Zealanders in RAF)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations over Many Fronts
- CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
- CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
- CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
- CHAPTER 6 — Malta
- CHAPTER 7 — Sicily
- CHAPTER 8 — Italy
- CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
- CHAPTER 10 — The End In Italy
- CHAPTER 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java
- CHAPTER 12 — The Retreat from Burma
- CHAPTER 13 — Fighting Back from India
- CHAPTER 14 — Air Superiority and the Arakan Battle
- CHAPTER 15 — Operation thursday and the Victory at — Imphal
- CHAPTER 16 — Back to Rangoon—the Last Phase
- New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
- Political and External Affairs
- Prisoners of War
- III: Escapes from Italy after the Armistice
- IV: New Zealanders captured in the Italian and Aegean Campaigns
- I: The Events of 1944 and German Camps from late 1943 onwards
- II: The War in Italy in 1944 and Escapes to Allied Lines
- I: Movements of Prisoners and Liberation in Germany
- II: Recovery and Evacuation after the Armistice
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- CHAPTER 9 — Reorganisation of RNZAF to meet Threat of Invasion
- CHAPTER 10 — Establishment of the RNZAF in the South Pacific
- THE AIR BOARD
- TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE
- EXERCISES AND OPERATIONS, 1929–36
- ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
- EXPANSION OF THE RNZAF
- [section]
- FORMATION OF THE RNZAF: THE AIR DEPARTMENT
- EXPANSION PROGRAMMES, 1937–39
- PACIFIC DEFENCE CONFERENCE
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE
- THE AERO CLUBS AND THE CIVIL RESERVE OF PILOTS
- CIVIL RESERVE OF GROUND STAFF
- RNZAF AT OUTBREAK OF WAR
- [section]
- FORMATION OF SCHOOLS
- EDUCATIONAL TRAINING
- EQUIPMENT
- [section]
- THE AIR TRAINING CORPS
- EFFECT OF PACIFIC WAR
- GROUND TRAINING SQUADRONS
- OUTPUT OF PILOTS TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
- REPATRIATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINEES FROM CANADA
- OPERATIONAL RESOURCES OF THE RNZAF AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
- EARLY OPERATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND
- DEFENCE OF FIJI
- FORMATION OF NEW GENERAL RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRONS
- [section]
- EQUIPMENT DIFFICULTIES
- OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH JAPAN
- NO. 488 SQUADRON'S COMBATS
- DECISION TO EVACUATE AIR FORCES
- [section]
- EVACUATION
- [section]
- REQUESTS TO BRITAIN FOR REINFORCEMENTS
- FORMATION OF OPERATIONAL UNITS
- PREPARATION OF AERODROMES
- DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR
- COMMUNICATIONS
- EXPANSION AND DISPERSAL OF STORES DEPOTS
- DEVELOPMENT OF REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE ORGANISATION
- MANPOWER AND TRAINING PROBLEMS IN 1942
- WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE
- NEGOTIATIONS TO OBTAIN EQUIPMENT
- MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT
- FORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND SQUADRON IN NEW CALEDONIA
- ORGANISATION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC AREA
- AMERICAN REQUEST FOR SECOND BOMBER-RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON
- OPERATIONS BY NO. 3 SQUADRON FROM SANTO
- NO. 15 SQUADRON ON TONGA
- MOVE OF NO. 3 SQUADRON TO GUADALCANAL
- EARLY OPERATIONS
- INTERCEPTING THE TOKYO EXPRESS
- FINAL STAGES OF THE CAMPAIGN
- [section]
- FORMATION OF NO. 1 (ISLANDS) GROUP HEADQUARTERS
- ESTABLISHMENT OF NO. 4 REPAIR DEPOT
- INTRODUCTION OF THE AIRCREW ROTATION SYSTEM
- CONSTRUCTION OF RNZAF CAMPS IN THE FORWARD AREA
- LOGISTIC SUPPORT IN THE FORWARD AREA
- FORMATION OF BASE DEPOT, SANTO
- MOVE OF NO. 1 (ISLANDS) GROUP HEADQUARTERS TO GUADALCANAL
- THE NEED FOR AIR TRANSPORT
- FORMATION OF NO. 40 (TRANSPORT) SQUADRON
- [section]
- MOVE OF NO. 15 SQUADRON TO GUADALCANAL
- FIGHTER OPERATIONS IN JUNE
- AIR BASES AND OPERATIONS
- OPERATIONS BY NO. 14 SQUADRON, RNZAF
- BOMBER ESCORT OPERATIONS
- NO. 16 SQUADRON
- OPERATIONS BY NO. 3 SQUADRON
- [section]
- FORMATION OF RNZAF STATION, NEW GEORGIA
- ALLIED FORCES IN THE BOUGAINVILLE OFFENSIVE
- TREASURY LANDINGS
- THE CHOISEUL DIVERSION
- ALLIED RECONNAISSANCE OF SHORTLAND AREA
- LANDING ON BOUGAINVILLE
- WORK OF RNZAF FIGHTER WING
- FIGHTER SWEEPS OVER RABAUL
- RNZAF FIGHTERS MOVE TO BOUGAINVILLE
- RNZAF OPERATIONS IN REAR AREAS
- No. 6 FLYING BOAT SQUADRON
- [untitled]
- radar units in tonga
- norfolk island
- despatch of no.52 radar unit to guadalcanal
- no. 53 unit
- no.54 unit
- no. 59 unit
- withdrawal of rnzaf radar units
- rnzaf operations against rabaul, january 1944
- operations over green island
- situation on bougainville, march 1944
- fighter-bomber operations
- operations by nos. 25, 30 and 31 squadrons
- re-equipment of rnzaf fighter squadrons
- bomber-reconnaissance operations, february—june
- operations by no. 6 (flying boat) squadron
- [section]
- formation of new zealand air task force
- establishment of rnzaf at emirau
- green island
- no. 20 squadron at green island
- los negros
- rnzaf units on bougainville
- the australians take over
- rnzaf in the south pacific area, july-december 1944
- espiritu santo
- fiji
- norfolk island
- [section]
- growth of the air transport organisation
- establishments in new zealand, august-september 1943
- reorganisation in 1944
- sources of manpower, 1943–44
- [section]
- central and northern bougainville
- close and tactical air support, south bougainville campaign
- northern bougainville
- rnzaf units on green island
- bomber-reconnaissance operations from green island
- operations from emirau
- move to los negros
- jacquinot bay
- operations in the south pacific area
- rnzaf dispositions, august 1945
- [section]
- demobilisation
- the post-war air force
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- The Home Front Volume I
- The Home Front Volume II
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- List of Illustrations
- CHAPTER 6 — Organisation in New Zealand—Air Force
- 2. In the Pacific
- Mobilisation and the First Year of War
- The Fourth Year, 1 April 1943 to 31 March 1944
- PDO Papakura Mobilisation Camp to DDS, 9 September 1940:
- Training of Dental Orderlies
- CHAPTER 27 — Tonga
- CHAPTER 28 — Norfolk Island
- CHAPTER 30 — No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Unit, RNZAF
- CHAPTER 31 — Maxillo-Facial Injuries
- CHAPTER 33 — The United Kingdom Reception Group
- Glossary
- Dental Treatment of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Fiji
- [section]
- No. 1 (Islands) Group, RNZAF
- Air Mobile Dental Section
- No. 1 RNZAF Mobile Dental Section, NZDC
- Working Conditions
- [section]
- The Pacific
- CHAPTER 1 — Japan—Rise and Conquest
- CHAPTER 8 — The Coastwatchers
- CHAPTER 13 — Reflections
- II: The First Force and its Work
- III: From Pearl Harbour to Relief
- IV: Negotiations—Political and Service
- II: The Treasuries
- III: The Waiting Period
- IV: The Capture of Green Islands
- II: The Air Force Story
- III: Battalions Move to the Solomons
- III: Norfolk Island
- Appendix V
- Index
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- CHAPTER 10 — Cruise of the Orion and Komet
- CHAPTER 14 — Anti-Submarine Policy
- CHAPTER 17 — Peril in the South Pacific
- CHAPTER 18 — The Minesweeping Flotillas
- CHAPTER 26 — Recruiting and Training
- CHAPTER 27 — Organisation of Naval Staff
- CHAPTER 28 — Development of Radar
- CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
- War Economy
- Shipbuilding and Repair
- Pre-war Defence Construction
- War and Accelerated Construction of Defence Buildings
- Details of Public Works Expenditure
- Defence Works by the Housing Construction Department
- Construction Work in the Pacific
- Public Criticism of the Size of the Home Forces
- Labour Shortages in the Last Year of War
- New Zealand Farming Developments
- Transport Developments
- War Surgery and Medicine
