Air Force Museum of New Zealand
Aviation museum on New Zealand's first air force base, with wartime aircraft and restorations.
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This guide to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand at Wigram in Christchurch sets aside the gleaming fighters for one battered dive bomber that was never restored. It follows two New Zealand airmen, Alexander Moore and John Munro, and an ordinary afternoon training flight from Espiritu Santo in February 1944, while their squadron prepared for the Solomon Islands campaign. Best heard standing right in front of the wreck, among the plants that surround it.
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