![This is the anniversary [?] in which I landed on the KARA airstrip s'Bpile [?]. It was the second aust plane to land, there had been one the previous day, I was the first n-z to see the place from the ground. These are the "reception" party.](https://thumbnailer.digitalpasifik.org/Je9fjGomAtcyzHd-4lRP8NWiv-k=/fit-in/385x385/http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.api.aucklandmuseum.com%2Fid%2Fmedia%2Fp%2F925d70e0ebae03ca6836efb98e8fb965b0bd144a%3Frendering%3Dstandard.jpg)
This is the anniversary [?] in which I landed on the KARA airstrip s'Bpile [?]. It was the second aust plane to land, there had been one the previous day, I was the first n-z to see the place from the ground. These are the "reception" party.
- Description:
- The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation "Wirraway", (aboriginal dialect word for "challenge"), was mainly used as a fighter-trainer in Australia. It was based on the North American NA33, which was a precursor to the T36 Texan/Harvard. It had a limited role in the Pacific Islands during WWII as it was no match for the Japanese Zero. Group of Japanese armed forces personnel at the Kara Airstrip, Bougainville Island, with a captured Wirraway plane.
- Display date:
- Published: 1945; Time period: August
- Collections:
- Auckland Museum Collections Online
- Contributors:
- Unknown, Photographer
- Content partner:
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
- Availability:
- Online
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