Hi all
' National Archives hold records relating to the New Zealand Air Department.
I have conducted a brief search of our finding aids to records generated by
the Air Department, but, unfortunately, was unable to locate any references
to the German Airforce (Luftwaffe). '
Well it seems that both the RNZAF Museum and the National Archives hold no ' officially captured ' Luftwaffe documents - so those that did make it back to New Zealand would have been ' liberated ' privately and unfortunately until they are donated to one of the above institutions they will remain unavailable to researchers .
Further to this , only one Luftwaffe aircraft was sent to N.Z. , in the form of a Me 109E-4 . The aircraft was a casualty of the Battle of Britain , shot down in November 1940. She was shipped here in late 1941 and was attached to the Technical Training Schools at Rongotai and Nelson , occasionally being displayed for War Bond drives . She was unfortunately broken up at RNZAF Wigram , Christchurch in 1948.
best regards
Dave
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