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New Zealanders in the RNZAF and RAF included pilots such as the first RAF ace of WW2, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere, whose Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat, and leaders such as World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded 11 Group, responsible for the defence of London in the Battle of Britain, the air defence of Malta and in the closing stages of the war, the RAF in South East Asia.
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This " Home Rule " banking confuses New Zealanders on vacation in the Cooks.
To relieve the pressure on the right and centre of the Eighth Army line, XIII Corps on the left advanced from the Qattara box ( known to the New Zealanders as the Kaponga box ).
About 350 New Zealanders were taken prisoner.
Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.
At daybreak on 22 July, Nehring's 5th and 8th Panzer Regiments responded with a rapid counter-attack which quickly overran the New Zealand infantry in the open, inflicting more than 900 casualties on the New Zealanders.
The finish, however, was clouded in controversy: in the final few hours, the Ford GT of New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon closely trailed the leading Ford GT driven by Englishman Ken Miles and New Zealander Denny Hulme.
Total Allied deaths were 43, 000 British, 15, 000 French, 8, 700 Australians, 2, 700 New Zealanders and 1, 370 Indians.
New Zealanders suffered the highest percentage of Allied deaths when compared with population size, but the percentage of Turkish deaths was almost twice theirs.
* The New Zealanders at Gallipoli ( 1919 ) eText
The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand, and the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used all over the world as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders.
Kiwi is also a colloquial name for New Zealanders.
In Sri Lanka's first triumph on foreign soil, Muralitharan confused the crease-bound New Zealanders on a grassy pitch in Dunedin.
Government has claimed that their priority on roads is in line with New Zealanders ' favoured travel modes, and as being the most promising in terms of economic benefits.
Government has claimed that their priority on roads is in line with New Zealanders ' favoured travel modes, and as being the most promising in terms of economic benefits.
Such perceived or actual safety issues discourage many New Zealanders from cycling.
Paradise Reformed: A History of the New Zealanders ( 2001 )
Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3 % of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001.
The documentary includes interviews with The Wizard, Mike Moore and many others who narrate a portrait of a man held by many New Zealanders to be a national Icon.
The New Zealanders operated in Military Region 3 with the Australian forces as part of the ANZAC task force ( brigade ) based in Nui Dat in Phuoc Thuy Province, North East of Saigon.
The Germans held the position until withdrawing on May 17, 1944, having repulsed four main offensives by the New Zealanders, British Indian regiment and Polish troops.
However, once Europeans arrived game animals were introduced by acclimatisation societies to provide New Zealanders with sport and a hunting resource.
New and RNZAF
* Royal New Zealand Air Force purchased three ex-United Airlines aircraft in 1981, with two operated by No. 40 Squadron RNZAF and the third placed into storage and later broken up.
BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) ( Maori: Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa, " New Zealand Warriors of the Sky "; old title Te Hokowhitu o Kahurangi, " War party of the Blue ") is the air arm of the New Zealand Defence Force.
It was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s.
From a 1945 peak of over 1, 000 combat aircraft the RNZAF has shrunk to a strength of around 62 aircraft in 2010, focusing on maritime patrol and transport duties in support of the Royal New Zealand Navy and the New Zealand Army.
It is the site of the present Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, but RNZAF Base Wigram has now closed.
At the outbreak of World War II the primary equipment of the RNZAF was 30 Vickers Wellington bombers, which the New Zealand government had offered to the United Kingdom, in August 1939, together with the crews to fly them.
The primary role of the RNZAF was to take advantage of New Zealand's distance from the conflict by training aircrew, as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme, alongside the other major former British colonies, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Hudson in the Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum | RNZAF museum.
The fall of Singapore led to the evacuated RNZAF pilots, in the RAF there, becoming available in New Zealand and they provided an experienced nucleus around which new fighter squadrons were formed.
At its peak, in the Pacific, the RNZAF had 34 Squadrons — 25 of which were based outside New Zealand and in action against Japanese forces.
In the post war period the RNZAF dealt progressively with demobilisation and disposal of its large obsolete fleet, rearmament to support the cold war, some loss of training opportunities with the American suspension of ANZUS Treaty obligations in protest at New Zealand becoming a nuclear free zone, social changes which saw women become combat pilots, and most recently loss of fast jets as part of the continuing funding cuts, that have seen the air force decline from over a thousand aircraft to just fifty.
The helicopter and former seaplane base RNZAF Hobsonville was sold to Housing New Zealand, and is being redeveloped as a residential area by the Hobsonville Land Company.
The RNZAF and Air New Zealand also arranged for the evacuation of all tourists from Samoa to Auckland.
* When in December 2011 the Russian fishing vessel Sparta struck an iceberg in the Ross Sea, RNZAF C-130s made two flights from New Zealand to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, air-dropping supplies to the crew en route.
*** Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF )
**** Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF )
These crews included RAF personnel of several different nationalities, as well as members of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ), who were frequently attached to RAF squadrons under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
He was an RNZAF and Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, and Chief Engineer of Tasman Empire Airways Limited, ( now known as Air New Zealand ), from 1944 to 1960, where his experience with the Short Sandringham led him to play a role in the development of the Short Solent.
Royal New Zealand Air Force | RNZAF roundel
Image: No 20 Sqn RAF sergeant with rockets Burma 1945. jpg | Sergeant Albert ( Tinny ) Martin, Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) of Wellington, New Zealand, of No. 20 Squadron, RAF, at Monywa, Central Burma, 17 / 18 March 1945
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