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Summary
| Description | A Grumman TBF-1C Avenger (s/n NZ2510) from No. 30 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force on the Turtle Bay strip at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. This aircraft had been assigned to the RNZAF on 25 October 1943 and assigned to 30 Squadron (identification letter "J" for "Joker"). It was ferried from New Zealand to Espiritu Santo on 24 January 1944. It was then ferried to Bougainville and operated from Piva North airfield beginning in March 1944. It was damaged by flak on 25 March 1944 and made an emergency landing at the Green Island airfield. After repair it was returned to 30 Squadron on Bougainville. It was finally turned over to the British Fleet Air Arm at Hobsonville, New Zealand on 7 September 1945. |
| Date | circa February 1944 |
| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.1742 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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