Two Northland volunteer researchers are on a quest to record every military camp in Northland during World War II.
Jack Kemp of Kerikeri and Bill Guthrie of Doubtless Bay have a long fascination with the military presence in Northland during the conflict, and are collating an inventory of military camps and other sites before they are lost.
Heritage New Zealand's Northland manager, Bill Edwards, said during the early 1940s military camps associated with the US Marines, who were going to be sent to fight in the Pacific, proliferated in Northland.
"The people associated with these camps have mostly passed on ... Evidence of these places is also often quite ephemeral, so it's important to record them now."
Mr Kemp has been involved with a proposed WWII museum in Vanuatu while Dr Guthrie is a former professor at the University of Macau whose father-in-law was a bomber pilot at Guadalcanal and whose father served in the Medical Corps.