WINGS OVER CAMBRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE'S CONNECTIONS WITH THE WARTIME AIR FORCE
Wartime RNZAF Squadrons
Squadron No 1 Squadron No 2 Squadron No 3 Squadron No 4 Squadron No 5 Squadron No 6 Squadron No 7 Squadron No 8 Squadron No 9 Squadron No. 10 Squadron No 14 Squadron No 15 Squadron No 16 Squadron No 17 Squadron No 18 Squadron No 19 Squadron No 20 Squadron No 21 Squadron No 22 Squadron No 23 Squadron No 24 Squadron No 25 Squadron No 26 Squadron No 30 Squadron No 31 Squadron No 40 Squadron No 41 Squadron No 42 Squadron
NZ units in the RAF No 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 485 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 486 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 487 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 488 Sqn (Singapore) No 488 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 489 (NZ) Squadron RAF No 490 (NZ) Squadron RAF
RNZAF Auxiliary Units Auxiliary Squadron No 10 Squadron No 11 Squadron No 12 Squadron No 13 Squadron No 21 Squadron No 22 Squadron No 23 Squadron No 31 Squadron No 32 Squadron No 33 Squadron No 41 Squadron No 42 Squadron No 43 Squadron No 44 Squadron CFS Squadron |
Role General/Bomber Reconnaissance General/Bomber Reconnaissance General/Bomber Reconnaissance General/Bomber Reconnaissance General Recon/ Flying Boat Army Co-op, then Flying Boat General Reconnaissance General Reconnaissance General/Bomber Reconnaissance General Reconnaissance OTU Fighter Fighter Fighter Fighter Fighter Fighter Army Co-Op, then Fighter Army Co-Op, then Fighter Army Co-op, then Fighter Fighter Fighter Dive Bomber, then Fighter Fighter Dive Bomber Dive Bomber Transport Transport Communications
Bomber Fighter Fighter-Bomber Fighter-Bomber Fighter Night-Fighter Coastal Command Torpedo Bomber Flying Boat
Squadron Type Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Bomber Reconnaissance Fighter Bomber Fighter Bomber Fighter Bomber Light Bomber Light Bomber Light Bomber Light Bomber Mixed
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Main Aircraft Type Vincent, Hudson, Ventura Vincent, Hudson, Ventura Vincent, Baffin, Hudson, Ventura Hudson, Ventura Singapore, Vincent, Catalina Hind, Catalina Vincent, Ventura Vincent, Ventura Vincent, Hudson Hudson Harvard, Kittyhawk, Corsair Harvard, Kittyhawk, Corsair Harvard, Kittyhawk, Corsair Harvard, Kittyhawk, Corsair Harvard, Kittyhawk, Corsair Kittyhawk, Corsair Hind, Kittyhawk, Corsair Hind, Corsair Hind, Corsair Corsair Corsair Harvard, Dauntless, Corsair Corsair Vincent, Avenger Avenger Lodestar, Dakota, Hudson Lodestar, Dakota, Hudson Various impressed and Dominies
Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster Spitfire, Tempest Hurricane, Typhoon, Tempest Mosquito Buffalo, Hurricane Beaufighter, Mosquito Beaufort, Blenheim, Hampden, Catalina, Sunderland
Aircraft used Vincent, Hudson Vincent Vincent Vincent Oxford Oxford Oxford Harvard Harvard Harvard Moths Moths Moths Moths Mixed |
Sqn Code SJ UH JV YZ PA XX UW PA
HQ JZ XO JZ XO
ZG UY TX
SG
AA, JN OU SA EG NF ME P6, XA
Unit formed under GR School, Omaka Wigram Woodbourne Ohakea Wigram Woodbourne Ohakea Wigram Woodbourne Ohakea Taieri New Plymouth Harewood Whenuapai Tauranga |
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The New Zealand General Reconnaisance Squadron
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.Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
General Reconnaissance, then Bomber Reconnaissance
Blackburn Baffin
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RNZAF Station Whenuapai
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Roberts
1940
1940
Further Reading: 'A Long Patrol' by James Sanders (Century Hutcheson, 1986)
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No. 1 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
General Reconnaissance, then Bomber Reconnaissance
Blackburn Baffin
Vickers Vincent
Lockheed Hudson
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RNZAF Station Whenuapai
RNZAF Station Waipapakauri (Detachment)
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Roberts
1940
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No. 2 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
General Reconnaissance, then Bomber Reconnaissance
Vickers Vincent
Lockheed Hudson
Lockheed Ventura
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RNZAF Station Nelson
RNZAF Station Gisborne
New Georgia (February 1944 - April 1944)
Bougainville (April 1944 - May 1944)
Green Island (January 1945 - March 1945)
Jacquinot Bay (June 1945 - September 1945)
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Blackburn Baffin (1941-1942)
Vickers Vincent (1941- 1942)
Lockheed Hudson (1942-1944)
Lockheed Ventura (1944-1945)
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RNZAF Station Harewood (April 1941 - September 1942)
Espiritu Santo (October 1942 - November 1942)
Guadalcanal (December 1942 - October 1943)
Espiritu Santo (October 1943 - January 1944)
Espiritu Santo (May 1944 - July 1944)
Guadalcanal (July 1944 - August 1944)
Bougainville (August 1944 - October 1944)
Emirau (Otober 1944 - November 1944)
Guadalcanal (February 1945 - March 1945)
Green Island (March 1945 - June 1945)
Squadron Leader CL Monckton (April 1941 - April 1942)
Squadron Leader JWH Bray (May - September 1942
Squadron Leader GH Fisher (September 1942 - July 1943)
Squadron Leader JJ Busch (July - November 1943)
Squadron Leader AB Greenaway (December 1943 - January 1944)
Squadron Leader IG Morrison (Fenruary 1944 - June 1945)
April 1941
June 1945 (reformed May 1965)
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No. 4 Squadron RNZAF
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General Reconnaissance, then Bomber Reconnaissance
de Havilland DH89 Rapide
de Havilland DH86 Express
de Havilland DH60 Moth
Vickers Vincent
Lockheed Hudson
Lockheed Ventura
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Fiji (October 1940 - November 1944)
Emirau (November 1944 - February 1945)
Guadalcanal (May 1945 - June 1945)
Emirau (June 1945 - July 1945)
Los Negros (July 1945 - September 1945)
Squadron Leader GR White (October 1940 - October 1942)
Squadron Leader EM Lewis (November 1942 - May 1943)
Squadron Leader EW Tacon (May 1943 - December 1943)
Squadron Leader E Brooke-Taylor (December 1943 - April 1944)
Squadron Leader NR Lecher (April 1944 - January 1945)
Squadron Leader FR Dix (January 1945 - February 1945)
Squadron Leader AFH Tye (March 1945 - June 1945)
Squadron Leader LH Parry (July 1945 - August 1945)
Squadron Leader GSA Stevenson (September 1945)
October 1940 (at Fiji)
September 1945
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No. 5 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
General Reconnaissance, then Flying Boat
Short Singapore (1941 - 1942)
Consolidated Catalina (1944 - 1953)
OT (on Singapores) PA (on Catalinas)
Fiji (November 1941 - November 1942, as GR Sqn, disbanded)
Fiji (July 1944 - October 1944, as FB Sqn, reformed)
Espiritu Santo (October 1944 - October 1945)
Squadron Leader EM Lewis (November - December 1941)
Squadron Leader WJ Craig (December 1941 - February 1942)
Squadron Leader RH Hickson (February 1942 - March 1942)
Squadron Leader RJRH Makgill (April 1942 - November 1942)
Squadron Leader JWH Bray (August 1944 - October 1945))
November 1941
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No. 6 Squadron RNZAF
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Army Co-operation, then Flying Boat
Hawker Hind
Consolidated Catalina
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RNZAF Station Onerahi
Squadron Leader
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No. 6 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
Des Hooker
No. 7 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 8 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 9 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 10 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 14 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 15 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 16 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 17 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 18 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 19 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 20 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 21 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 22 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 23 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 24 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 25 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 26 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 30 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
Roy PatonBert Sinclair
No. 31 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
Malcolm HarsantBert Sinclair
No. 40 Squadron RNZAF
No. 41 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 42 Squadron RNZAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:
Martin ByrneRobert Carter
Murray Garland
No. 485 (NZ) Squadron RAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 486 (NZ) Squadron RAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 487 (NZ) Squadron RAF
No. 488 (NZ) Squadron RAF
No. 489 (NZ) Squadron RAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 490 (NZ) Squadron RAF
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Cambridge Men in RNZAF Squadrons:No. 2 Servicing Unit