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 Historic stuff - Lauthala Bay, Cats and Sunderlands 

(Acknowledgments to the RNZAF Museum and Bill Cowan)

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RNZAF Lauthala Bay Station Crest

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CAS Parade L Bay 1951

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Sergeants Mess Lauthala Bay 1957

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Lauthala Bay 1953

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First and Last Lauthala Bay 1953

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5 Sqn at Rabaul 1945

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Lauthala Bay  L-R  Ian Brausch Pop Knox Pete Culpan Murray Rutherfurd

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Construction Lauthala Bay Breakwater 1942

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NZ4033 Segond Channel Espititu Santo1945

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NZ4112 Nukunono Island 1966

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Lauthala Bay 1954

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Pratt & Whitney Power 1952

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All four feathered lauthala Bay 1959

g514.jpg (37451 bytes)5 Sqn Op Grapple hangout (photo Bill Penn)

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Fakaofa May 1959

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George Hills & Garry Wrathal 1958

  

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Joe: 5 sqn Tea Boy.    He was taught morse by the sqn and got a job with Cable and Wireless

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Refuel LB 1965 (Photo by John Tamblyn)

 

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NZ NZ 4107 on its final low pass at the Bay - the very last Sunderland flight 2nd April 1967 

Crew: Lofty Laing, Gary Wrathal, I. Bailey(nav), Noel Crump, Lew Wirth, Wally Plank, Eddy Brown and Murray Rutherford.

 

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G.P.H. Suva 1957

 

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Aerial photography

Bruce Tunley aims at USS Queenfish 9 Feb 1958

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