LAC Owen Kendall was working at Hobsonville in December 1945 when he saw a C-47 going past a gap between hangars.
It had been on a repatriation flight, he thinks from Fiji, and encountered strong headwinds. The pilot had lined it up for Whenuapai, but the engines stopped and he had to make a
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