Home Images and media photos Loading anti-aircraft guns during war in the Pacific

Loading anti-aircraft guns during war in the Pacific

Placing a drum of ammunition in one of HMS Leander's anti-aircraft guns.

This image Appears In 2 Articles:

  • Map of the Pacific theatre, 1941-1945
    War in the Pacific
  • Loading anti-aircraft guns during war in the Pacific
    HMNZS Leander

Keywords

shipping
pacific war
Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
War History Collection
Reference: A-01101-F
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

How to cite this page

'Loading anti-aircraft guns during war in the Pacific ', URL: /media/photo/loading-anti-aircraft-guns-leander, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 7-May-2014

RELATED TO LOADING ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS DURING WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Events

  • 2 May 1868

    First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
  • 17 August 1942

    Attack on the Nino Bixio
  • 20 May 1865

    Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
  • 29 April 1881

    131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
  • 16 April 1912

    News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
  • 3 February 1868

    Killer storm sweeps the country
  • 23 October 1915

    Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
  • 27 November 1940

    Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
  • 15 August 1951

    Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
  • 15 September 1976

    Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
  • 27 October 1943

    NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
  • 8 December 1941

    New Zealand declares war on Japan
  • 11 August 1962

    Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
  • 20 August 1940

    Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
See 6 more related events...

Biographies

  • Michael Herrick

Articles

  • HMNZS Leander
  • Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
  • Container shipping
  • Merchant marine
  • Pencarrow Lighthouse
  • Oamaru Harbour
  • Wahine disaster
  • New Zealand disasters timeline
  • War in the Pacific
See 1 more related article...

Community contributions

No comments have been posted about Loading anti-aircraft guns during war in the Pacific

What do you know?