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and conducted two flights into Berlin each day they were on duty. A second group of three crews was later dispatched to replace the first group. Following the end of the Soviet blockade of Berlin, the detachment returned to New
Zealand in August 1949. At this time the main body of the squadron in New
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Solomon Islands to supply the Allied forces there. During the first six months of 1945 No. 41 Squadron was re-equipped with 20 new Dakotas. Following the end of the war several of No. 41 Squadron's Dakotas were deployed to Singapore to transport released prisoners of war and civilian internees
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Singapore to provide transport when required. As a result, No. 41 Squadron returned to New Zealand and disbanded during December 1977. Following the disbandment of the unit, its Iroquois aircraft remained in Singapore as Support Unit Singapore, which was renamed
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Commonwealth forces in Borneo. The aircraft deployed from Singapore to Borneo operated intensively, with aircrew often flying three or four sorties each day. On 13 October 1965 a No. 41 Squadron Bristol Freighter was hit by machine gun fire after it
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region of Malaya. Tie was killed in this accident, along with the three other aircrew, three Royal Army
Service Corps air dispatchers and two Malayan film makers travelling as passengers; a fourth dispatcher survived. While the other RNZAF squadron in Malaya, No. 14 Squadron, returned home in 1958
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Whenuapai. As well as supporting other elements of the New Zealand military, these units undertook "quasi-civil" tasks due to a shortage of civilian aircraft. From
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Zealand had been forced to reduce its flying hours due to a shortage of technicians to service the
Dakotas. Between September 1949 and 1951, No. 41 Squadron's A Flight was based in Singapore, from where it made regular flights to Hong Kong and dropped supplies to Commonwealth forces in
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soldiers into the country from
Whenuapai during June 1962. The No. 41 Squadron detachment returned to Singapore in December 1962. Shortly afterwards the squadron provided support for the British forces which were attempting to suppress the
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engineers around remote areas of the country. By this time No. 41 Squadron's
Bristol Freighters were becoming outdated, and historian Margaret McClure has written that they were the "slowest military aircraft in South-east Asia".
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Bristol Freighters; the numbers of helicopters varied, but four were typically at Singapore. By the mid-1970s the Bristol Freighters were considered obsolete, and the RNZAF's newer
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accidentally crossed the Indonesian border during a supply dropping mission, but none of its crew were wounded. Following the end of the confrontation all the squadron's aircraft returned to Singapore in September 1966.
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and the New Zealand embassy in Saigon continued after the withdrawal of New Zealand military forces in 1971. In early April 1975 the squadron established a detachment at
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was temporarily based in Singapore from 1949 to 1951. From 1955 the entire squadron was stationed at Singapore, from where it participated in the
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