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  • Heritage Info Sheet 2 Aitkenvale Airfield

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    The document summarizes the history of the Aitkenvale Airfield that operated during World War II where the Weir State School is now located in Townsville, Australia. The airfield trained fighter pilots for combat in New Guinea. Its runway extended through what are now suburban neighborhoods. Local families like the Gleesons had their lives disrupted when they were forced to move to make way for the airfield. After the war ended in 1945, the airfield was abandoned but the runway remained for years until suburban development erased its traces in the late 1950s.

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    Townsville History resources (Townsville, Queensland, Australia)

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    The document summarizes the history of the Aitkenvale Airfield that operated during World War II where the Weir State School is now located in Townsville, Australia. The airfield trained fighter pilots for combat in New Guinea. Its runway extended through what are now suburban neighborhoods. Local families like the Gleesons had their lives disrupted when they were forced to move to make way for the airfield. After the war ended in 1945, the airfield was abandoned but the runway remained for years until suburban development erased its traces in the late 1950s.

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    Heritage Info Sheet 2 Aitkenvale Airfield

    Diunggah oleh

    Ngaire Taylor
    The document summarizes the history of the Aitkenvale Airfield that operated during World War II where the Weir State School is now located in Townsville, Australia. The airfield trained fighter pilots for combat in New Guinea. Its runway extended through what are now suburban neighborhoods. Local families like the Gleesons had their lives disrupted when they were forced to move to make way for the airfield. After the war ended in 1945, the airfield was abandoned but the runway remained for years until suburban development erased its traces in the late 1950s.

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    HERITAGE SERVICES INFORMATION SHEET NUMBER 2

    AITKENVALE AIRFIELD
    When standing outside Weir State School today, it is hard to imagine the busy
    airfield that operated there in 1942.

    The airfield was one of a number forced to move out of their house at short
    established in the Townsville Thuringowa notice. School life was also affected as
    area during World War II and operated to the RAAF acquired the school site and
    train fighter pilots prior to their joining students were relocated to temporary
    hostilities in New Guinea. classrooms further away.

    The runway extended in a north-east In its short but busy operational life air
    direction from the Weir School across force authorities had to contend with
    Bamford Lane through what are now the
    suburbs of Kirwan and Cranbrook. many problems, including local cattle,
    which either forced the RAAF to move
    The Gleesons, who had lived in the area fence lines from the riverbank to the edge
    since the 1870s, were one of a number of of the runway so that the cattle could
    families whose lives were disrupted by the move freely along the stock route to the
    construction of the airfield, as they were meatworks; or disturbed air traffic when
    they strayed on to the runway due to airfield disappeared becoming only a
    damaged fences. memory of Thuringowa’s rich past.

    By March 1945, the airfield was virtually Acknowledgments:


    deserted but the runway remained for • Peter Bell, A Short History of Thuringowa,
    Thuringowa City Council, Thuringowa
    many years becoming a popular area for Central, 2000.
    • R. & J. Marks, Queensland Airfields WW2
    young people to learn to drive, however
    – 50 years on, Mansfield, 1994.
    with the beginning of suburban • Thuringowa Library Heritage Services
    Photographic Collection.
    development in Thuringowa in 1958, the • J.C Underwood, The History of Weir State
    School, Produced for the Centenary
    Celebrations, 1981

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