Pine Takarangi

Sergeant Pine Tenga Takarangi was a New Zealand airman of the Royal New Zealand AIr Force who died during the Second World War.
He was born in Putiki, Auckland, the son of Tenga Hore and Rangitaamo Takarangi. He attended a mission school and Wanganui Technical College, where he participated in various sports.
Takarangi enlisted in the RNZAF in September 1939. After the completion of his training, Takarangi was for more than a year assigned to headquarters staff at Weraroa. He subsequently trained for air operations in Canada and later joined 10 Squadron RAF in Europe.
Takarangi died on 6 September 1941 when his Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, in which he was embarked as a wireless operator and air gunner, crashed in the Netherlands.
He is buried in Oldebroek General Cemetery..
==References==
Maori Airman Posted Missing, Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 220, 17 September 1941, Page 6
Takarangi, Pine Tenga
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1941 deaths
Category:New Zealand military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force
Category:Buried in the Netherlands
Category:Sergeants
Category:Royal New Zealand Air Force