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  1. TTH
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    Unrealized Plans and Projects for Arms Productions in the Dominions

    I have occasionally stumbled across reports of plans to produce some items of equipment in the Dominions, though these plans never came to...
    Thread by: TTH, Sep 16, 2025, 5 replies, in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
  2. Mike Seager Thomas
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    New Zealand Graves Registration and Enquiries Unit (NZGREU)

    On ANZAC day this year (25/04/24) I will be publishing free online a top-and-tailed transcription of the personal WW2 North African campaign...
    Thread by: Mike Seager Thomas, Apr 4, 2024, 9 replies, in forum: New Zealand
  3. Marvellous
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    Searching for a US Sailor with a photograph only

    Hello WW2 Talk I am wishing to find the identity of a US sailor who was stationed in Auckland New Zealand during WW2. I have a photograph of him...
    Thread by: Marvellous, Mar 17, 2023, 12 replies, in forum: Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy
  4. davidbfpo
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    The Loss of HMT Awatea, 11 November 1942

    This ship was a fast civilian passenger ship from New Zealand, crossing the Tasman Sea and became a WW2 troopship. Thanks to a pointer to a BCHM...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Nov 23, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: The War at Sea
  5. T. Hilton
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    New Zealanders in Alfiano Natta (AL) Italy

    Hello, I have been recommended to post in your forum as I am searching for information regarding NZ soldiers. I live in a village in Piemonte...
    Thread by: T. Hilton, Apr 18, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: User Introductions
  6. davidbfpo
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    Halfway Home – The Rehabilitation of New Zealand Second World War POWs in Britain

    Just found this article 'Halfway Home –The Rehabilitation of New Zealand Second World War POWs in Britain' by a New Zealander Matthew Johnson, in...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Mar 19, 2020, 2 replies, in forum: Prisoners of War
  7. Taieri
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    Aqua freeda, POW Camp Italy

    Hi. My father was a New Zealand POW in Aqua freeda, Italy. He escaped in September 1943 and reached allied lines at the beginning of December...
    Thread by: Taieri, Feb 15, 2020, 5 replies, in forum: Italy
  8. davidbfpo
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    PG47 escapees and the suicide of the NZ Camp CO, Clayden Shuttleworth

    I am currently reading a privately published biography of a South African pilot who was captured in North Africa, in July 1942 and ended up in an...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Apr 4, 2019, 109 replies, in forum: Prisoners of War
  9. rrlutz
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    Some feedback from NZ research

    Spoke with curator of New Zealand Naval Museum. They have few if any holdings on NZ involvement with (SOE/SRD) despite being aware of the Naval...
    Thread by: rrlutz, May 25, 2017, 2 replies, in forum: SOE & OSS
  10. Stuart SS
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    New Zealand forces in the Pacific campaign of WWII

    Hey blokes. I have a long running blog under ' Australia '~...
    Thread by: Stuart SS, Jan 26, 2016, 4 replies, in forum: New Zealand
  11. choppercarl
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    US Medal Eligibilty

    Hello everyone, I am doing research on my great grandfathers time served in New Guinea between 1942 and 1944 with the United States Army...
    Thread by: choppercarl, Nov 6, 2014, 9 replies, in forum: Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy
  12. Seymour14
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    NZ WWII Dispatch riders

    Hi folks, new to this site, was just wanting to ask if anyone knows of or is an ex WWII Dispatch rider. Am doing a family history book, but have...
    Thread by: Seymour14, Jan 9, 2014, 10 replies, in forum: New Zealand
  13. kiwisid
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    Tiger tanks versus Kiwi Shermans

    Tank warfare in the Italian Theatre, especially in the last year of the war, was no less intense than those higher-profile (as far as the...
    Thread by: kiwisid, Jul 27, 2013, 6 replies, in forum: Books, Films, TV, Radio
  14. kiwi craig
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    Bridge of Remberance to be saved

    On February 22nd 2011, Christchurch was devastated by an earth quake. Many of the Cities Memorials have been damaged, of left in an unsafe state....
    Thread by: kiwi craig, Sep 14, 2011, 0 replies, in forum: War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research
  15. DavidW
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    28th Maori Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division

    Guys, Was the 28th Maori Battalion a "normal" New Zealand Infantry battalion in the period 1940 - 1942? Did it conform to the contemporary War...
    Thread by: DavidW, Sep 3, 2011, 14 replies, in forum: New Zealand
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