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List of Illustrations

London burning, 29 December 1940	Frontispiece
	Imperial War Museum
	Following page
Anson on convoy patrol	108
German bombing attack on British Fleet in the Firth of Forth, 16 October 1939	108
Original members of New Zealand Flight, No. 75 Squadron	108
A Whitley of Bomber Command takes off on a leaflet raid	108
Ground crews coaxing the propeller of a Battle bomber on an airfield in France	108
Flying Officer E. J. Kain, DFC	108
The town of Narvik Imperial War Museum	108
Wreckage of a Dornier 17 bomber in a French cornfield	108
Low-level attack by Battle bombers on a German convoy in France	108
Burning oil depots at Dunkirk	108
British troops on the beach at Dunkirk waiting to embark The Times	108
The German leaders, June 1940	108
German photograph of a Heinkel III dropping its bombs during the Battle of Britain	108
German photograph of a direct hit on the oil storage tanks at Purfleet, on the Thames	108
Vapour trails over Westminster	108
His Majesty the King with Flight Lieutenant A. C. Deere, DSO, OBE, DFC and bar, DFC (US), Croix de Guerre	108
Pilot Officer C. F. Gray, DSO, DFC and two bars	108
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith R. Park, GCB, KBE, MC and bar, DFC, Croix de Guerre	108
Hudson of Coastal Command on a reconnaissance of the Norwegian coast	108
Sunderland on patrol over a convoy of troopships approaching Britain	108 page xiv
A Coastal Command Blenheim above an enemy tanker attacked in the North Sea	108
Part of the dock area at Dunkirk where the German invasion fleet was concentrated Imperial War Museum	108
A section of London east of St. Paul’s Cathedral after the raid of 29 December 1940 Imperial War Museum	108
The centre of Coventry after the attack of 14 November 1940 Imperial War Museum	108
‘Returning with over 700 hits from an operational flight.’— German caption	108
Defiant about to take off on a night interception patrol	108
German supply ship on fire in a fiord in south-west Norway	108
U-boat (U.570) which surrendered south of Iceland to a Coastal Command Hudson	108
Aircraft on an airfield in Iceland	108
Blenheims of Bomber Command attack Rotterdam on 16 July 1941	108
Attack on power stations at Cologne on 12 August 1941	108
Direct hits on docks and shipping at Le Havre on 15 October 1941	272
Wreckage of a Wellington shot down near Bremen	272
Halifaxes attack German warships at Brest on 18 December 1941	272
Bombing up a Wellington of No. 75 Squadron The Times	272
Sergeant J. A. Ward, VC, and four photographs showing the damage suffered by his aircraft	272
The Empire Air Training Scheme—New Zealanders in Canada Royal Canadian Air Force	272
Line up of Spitfires subscribed by New Zealand for No. 485 Squadron	272
Hudsons preparing for Atlantic ferry flight at Gander, Newfoundland	272
The combined raid at Vaagso, 27 December 1941	272
Italian bomber shot down near the east coast of England in November 1940	272
Hurricane of No. 257 Squadron refuelling in the snow	272
Pilots examine the wreckage of a Junkers 87 in January 1941 Imperial War Museum	272 page xv
German photograph showing a Hurricane breaking up in mid-air and the pilot parachuting	272
Sergeant K. O. Law’s Wellington which returned to base safely though badly damaged by a night fighter	272
The railway workshops before and after the ‘thousand- bomber’ raid of 30 May 1942 on Cologne	272
German officers examine the wreckage of an RAF Stirling shot down over Germany on 29 July 1942	272
A New Zealand bomber crew of No. 75 Squadron in 1942 Sport & General	272
U-boat under air attack by a Sunderland in the Bay of Biscay, 5 June 1942	272
In a dispersal hut at a fighter station as pilots wait for orders to ‘scramble’ Imperial War Museum	272
Fighter pilots being briefed for an operation	272
View from the control tower as a flight takes off	272
Recounting experiences on returning from a sweep over northern France	272
Boston crews being briefed before the Dieppe raid, August 1942 Imperial War Museum	272
Bombs fall from a Boston in the early stages of the Dieppe raid Imperial War Museum	272
A street in Exeter on the morning after the heavy German night raid of 24 April 1942 The Times	272
Squadron Leader D. J. Scott	272
The Battle of Britain Memorial Window in Westminster Abbey	272

Unless otherwise credited, the photographs come from the Air Ministry Information Section, supplemented from the Royal New Zealand Air Force Official Collection.