Service Personnel
Flying Officer
NOEL WILLIAM SUTHERLAND DFC. NZ422329 & 131776
Joined the RNZAF April 1942 to March 1946
and on the RNZAF Air Force Reserve to December 1975.
Noel served with 297 Sqn RAF and 299 Sqn RAF ( Stirling )
 

Noel Sutherland away up in the cockpit of E for EASY
 
Finally joining 190 Sqn RAF on ‘special duties ‘ operations.
Some of these ‘Special Duties’ involved some dangerous missions flying a Shorts Stirling at night, deep into Europe supplying the underground movement , and dropping troops by parachute during the invasion of Europe, also towing gliders into Arnhem in 1944 at the time of the tragic British army assault in the Netherlands.