Jayce, No. 75 (NZ) Squadron was an RAF unit in WWII which was partially crewed by New Zealanders and New Zealand aircraft, and it later transferred to the RNZAF. Meanwhile No’s 485 through to 490 Squadrons were actually RNZAF Squadrons attached to the RAF, not RAF squadrons.
RNZAF squadrons that flew in the Pacific came under USMC command, using US supplied machines under Lease-Lend, and adopting the US operating practices, but no-one would dare to call them USMC squadrons!!
The South African Air Force began in 1919 as an independent Air Force, but traces its origins back to 1912, and was an indepedent Air Force seperate from the RAF, with two Wings flying in North Africa alongside other Allied Air Forces.
The photos are from a pilot in the SAAF in a SAAF Squadron of a SAAF Wing. You can keep digging as deep as you like, but RAF is the wrong term applied here.
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