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Visiting the Maryborough Airport brought back memories for 96-year-old World War Two veteran Peter Groom.
Seeing the work the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum had done in restoring a World War Two CAC Wackett aircraft transported him to his time in the British Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm when his squadron was based at the Maryborough airfield.
“I was a sub-lieutenant, I trained as a navigator and when I was here in Maryborough, we were flying Sea Otters, for air sea rescue,” Mr Groom said.
“We came here in 1945 and there were about 2000 men here at the airfield at the time … We did a lot of patrols around aircraft carriers while they were practising landings and things like that. We did a lot of VIP travel, taking people to Fraser Island where the commandos were being trained.”