PILOTS FROM THE DOMINION HAVE THEIR OWN FIGHTER SQUADRON.—This series of pictures shows men of the first New Zealand Fighter Squadron training on Spitfires in England. Pilots and ground staff are all New Zealanders. 1.—Loading ammunition into the wings of a Spitfire. 2.—Pilots consulting their maps before setting out on a flight. 3.—An armourer, wearing the New Zealand shoulder badege loading one of the eight machine-guns of a Spitfire. 4.—Some of the members of the ground staff. 5.—Flight Lieutenant Martin, of Timaru, in the cockpit. 6.—Pilots leaving their machines after a flight. 7.—Squadron Leader Knight, the commander of the squadron. 8.—Squadron Leader Knight with his Flight Commanders, Flight Lieutenant Brinsden (left) and Flight Lieutenant Martin (right).

Southland Times, Issue 24445, 27 May 1941, Page 6

PILOTS FROM THE DOMINION HAVE THEIR OWN FIGHTER SQUADRON. —This series of pictures shows men of the first New Zealand Fighter Squadron training on Spitfires in England. Pilots and ground staff are all New Zealanders. 1.—Loading ammunition into the wings of a Spitfire. 2.—Pilots consulting their maps before setting out on a flight. 3.—An armourer, wearing the New Zealand shoulder badege loading one of the eight machine-guns of a Spitfire. 4.—Some of the members of the ground staff. 5.—Flight Lieutenant Martin, of Timaru, in the cockpit. 6.—Pilots leaving their machines after a flight. 7.—Squadron Leader Knight, the commander of the squadron. 8.—Squadron Leader Knight with his Flight Commanders, Flight Lieutenant Brinsden (left) and Flight Lieutenant Martin (right).