Acknowledgments

THIS NARRATIVE is based on New Zealand and American intelligence reports,
on pilots' combat reports, and on the operational records of the squadrons concerned.

The maps are by L. D. McCormick (page 4) and E. Mervyn Taylor (page 26),
and the silhouettes on pages 5, 16, and 17 are from aircraft recognition training
manuals.

With the exception of the group at the top of page 14, all the photographs
are from the RNZAF official collection. Photographers' names are stated where
they are known:

Inside Cover, pages 22, 23, and 30 (bottom) D. H. Vahry

pages 10, 12 (top), and 13, L. White

pages 11 and 13 (top) H. A. C. Davy

pages 14 (bottom), 16 (bottom), 17 (bottom), 18, 19, and 21 (top) C. Stewart

page 21 (bottom) C. T. Cave

page 24 (top) T. W. Ewart