5 Squadron RNZAF Association
Historic stuff - Lauthala Bay, Cats and Sunderlands
(Acknowledgments to the RNZAF Museum and Bill Cowan)
RNZAF Lauthala Bay Station Crest
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CAS Parade L Bay 1951 |
Sergeants Mess Lauthala Bay 1957 |
Lauthala Bay 1953 |
First and Last Lauthala Bay 1953 |
5 Sqn at Rabaul 1945 |
Lauthala Bay L-R Ian Brausch Pop Knox Pete Culpan Murray Rutherfurd |
Construction Lauthala Bay Breakwater 1942 |
NZ4033 Segond Channel Espititu Santo1945 |
NZ4112 Nukunono Island 1966 |
Lauthala Bay 1954 |
Pratt & Whitney Power 1952 |
All four feathered lauthala Bay 1959 |
5 Sqn Op Grapple hangout (photo Bill Penn) |
Fakaofa May 1959 |
George Hills & Garry Wrathal 1958 |
Joe: 5 sqn Tea Boy. He was taught morse by the sqn and got a job with Cable and Wireless |
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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