WORLD War II pilots and ground crew who trained at Mildura were remembered on Wednesday at the 80th anniversary commemorative service for the local No.2 Operational Training Unit.

Locals and visitors gathered at the War Graves Cemetery in Nichols Point to commemorate the occasion and mourn the loss of those training in Mildura that never made it to war.

Between 1942 and 1945, 58 pilots and ...