Kiwi's over the Timor Sea

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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-15 Kangaroo - No.3 Squadron, Territorial Air Force, RNZAF, 1953

During 1949 the four Territorial Air Force squadrons of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were re-equipped with 50 CA-15 fighters purchased from Australia as part of an expanded trans-Tasman trade agreement. No.3 Squadron were unique in becoming the only New Zealand component of the British Commonwealth forces urgently deployed to the Timor Sea area in 1951 in an attempt to prevent the expansionist plans of the new Republic of Indonesia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nice work on this one, always cool to see kiwi birds.