Avengers over Rabaul

Object detail

Accession number

ART-2017-12

Maker

Maurice Conly

Description

Depicting RNZAF Squadron 30 aerial operation over Rabaul in an Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft. Limited run of prints commissioned from a painting to fundraise for the establishment of the Air Force Museum in Wigram, Christchurch. Numbered print 143/500.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

1 print : colour ; 50.5 x 55.5 cm (framed)

Credit Line

Maurice Conly. 1982. Avengers over Rabaul, ART-2017-12. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Production place

New Zealand

Current rights

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Classification

Print Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Graphic Documents

Subject

Airplanes New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force. Squadron 30 Aerial operations, New Zealand World War, 1939-1945 Papua New Guinea Pictorial works

Collection type

Pictorial Walsh Memorial Library

Member object

Name/Title: No 30 Squadron RNZAF Maker: Unknown Production date: 1982 Accession number: MSS-2017-39 See full details

Related objects

Name/Title: Royal New Zealand Air Force Maker: J. M. S. Ross Production date: 1955 Accession number: 06-113 See full details

Name/Title: The assault on Rabaul operations by the Royal New Zealand Air Force December 1943-May 1944 Maker: J. M. S. Ross Production date: 1949 Accession number: 15-1187 See full details

Aircraft [Grumman TBF-1C Avenger NZ2527/ZK CBO]; Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Circa 1943

Name/Title: Aircraft [Grumman TBF-1C Avenger NZ2527/ZK CBO] Maker: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation Production date: Circa 1943 Accession number: 1982.751 See full details

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