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5 SQN RAAF Wirriways at Toogoolawah

Gooday all

Having received such useful info with my posting about Tiger Moths at Watts Bridge (Toogoolawah) I thought I would ask if anyone can help with the Wirriways that I know were there in 1942/43 with 5 SQN

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By: Proctor VH-AHY - 22nd September 2010 at 22:40

Gooday

With help from Gordy

the answer to my question about which CAC Wirraways were at Watts Bridge I found from the National Australian Archives that the following were there at some time between November 1942 to Feb 1943
A20-289
A20-549
A20-537
A20-285
A20-512
A20-143
A20-538
A20-191
A20-517
A20-143
A20-514
A20-286
A20-513

My next question is did any survive to this day and are there any surviving photos of any of those aeroplanes.

A have added some more data to my site with scanned pages from 5SQN operations book for the period

http://www.wattsbridgehistory.com/WW2History.html

there appears that there were about 200 squadron members at the Toogoolawah (Watts Bridge) airfield. My next task is to try and identify as many as I can by name.

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By: JDK - 14th September 2010 at 03:18

Any suggestions as to other forums that I could pose the question and maybe get a answer

ADF Serials forum, Dave Homewood’s NZ forum (where they kindly welcome quite a few Aussies) and not least Glenn Alderton’s Warbirdz.

http://www.adf-messageboard.com.au/invboard/

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?

http://www.warbirdz.net/forum/

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By: Proctor VH-AHY - 14th September 2010 at 02:49

All

Obviously this being a forum with a high percentage of forumites from England, I have asked my question to the wrong place

Any suggestions as to other forums that I could pose the question and maybe get a answer

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