Soaring prospects

Witham Field began as the lofty dream of a local aviator

BY SANDRA THURLOW

“Stuart” was painted on rooftops to direct pilots to the airport. SANDRA THURLOW
“Stuart” was painted on rooftops to direct pilots to the airport. SANDRA THURLOW

Albert Paul “Bert” Krueger had returned home to Stuart as a World War I flying ace. His parents were early pioneers of Martin County, where Bert and his siblings had grown up on the family’s pineapple farm. 

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