WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
No. 5 Squadron RAAF
Videos
No. 5 Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force training, army co-operation and helicopter squadron. The squadron was formed in 1917 as a training unit of the Australian Flying Corps in Britain, ready
A Boomerang aircraft operated by No. 5 Squadron in 1944
A Boomerang aircraft operated by No. 5 Squadron in 1944
Bell Iroquois of No. 5 Squadron in 1971
Bell Iroquois of No. 5 Squadron in 1971
Piva Airfield
Videos
Piva Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands archipelago.
No. 5 Squadron RAAF
…re-equipped with Boomerangs in late 1943 and was assigned to several different stations in Australia. On 11 November 1944, No. 5 Squadron was deployed to Piva Airfield at Torokina on Bougainville under No. 84 (Army Co-operation) Wing, and operated with units of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, undertaking reconnaissance…
SBDs of VC-40 sortie from Piva Uncle Airfield for a strike on Rabaul, 6 April 1944
SBDs of VC-40 sortie from Piva Uncle Airfield for a strike on Rabaul, 6 April 1944
F4Us of VF-17 at Piva, February 1944
F4Us of VF-17 at Piva, February 1944
RAAF Boomerang with RNZAF Corsairs at Piva in January 1945
RAAF Boomerang with RNZAF Corsairs at Piva in January 1945