Troops disembarking from a QANTAS aircraft, Saigon, 28 April 1966 Pic by Warant Officer 2 Bill Cunneen It was on aircraft like these, chartered by the RAAF from Qantas with Crew. That were used to ferry troops to and from the Siagon during the Vietnam conflict. Each flight was manned by 4 Tech Crew, 6 Cabin Crew and a Traffic Officer.  If you operated any of these flights you are eligible to join. The Skippy Squadron Vietnam Volunteers You are also eligible to join the RSL and can be a Member as well as joining this group. If you have not already done so you can apply for your Service Medals:- Service Medals Membership is open to former and serving Qantas:- Pilots Flight Engineers Cabin Crew Traffic Officers Family Members of  Medal Holders who have passed away. Go here to leave leave your membership details:- Join Skippy Squadron Here You will need to enter in your:- Rank Surname, First Name RSL Membership Number (say pending if you havent yet applied) Medals you have been presented with. (use initals only) Your primary email address Snail Mail Address (this is not made public) Contact Ph Numbers (also not made public) If you would like to help out on the Association's Committee please go here and leave your name and email address or contact Ph Number:- Join Committee Take a side trip and visit the War Memorial in Canberra.  War Memorial Qantas DC4's were involved in a number of medivac charters out of Japan during the Korean War here is a first hand account by a nurse that flew on many of them. Mediar Qantas at War. Memorial Page to the Qantas Crew who served during World War II Lest We Forget During WWII Qantas a/c and crew were involved in a number of actions. A raid by Japanese Zero's on Broom Accounted for 6 large a/c one of which was a Qantas Flying Boat. I have gathered together a number of the links that relate to this action. Some of which makes for pretty graphic reading. Broom NESWA Broom Action   Flyingboat   Extracted From The :- Memoirs Of Ron Friend's Exploits In The RAAF During The Second World War 1939 - 1945 The other aircraft operating from Perth were 4 ­engined American Liberators. On these we set course from Perth, flew to an aerodrome at Learmonth, N.W Cape on the N.W. tip of Western Australia, refuelled and set course for Colombo. We set course around sunset, so that we would have the stars to guide us, and arrived at Colombo some time after sunrise. One or two of the Captains who knew nothing about navigating except homing on a radio transmission, I despised, particularly the snobbish ones who never spoke to us and treated us as far beneath their standing. When you have been working your guts out and established an exact position by having all three astro position lines passing through a single point, and the captain tells you he is altering course to home on the transmissions from the Keeling Islands (Cocos), 150 miles to the west in order to get an exact starting point, what would you do ? As soon as he commenced homing he left the cockpit, he passed me without speaking, and proceeded aft to chat with the passengers. The First Officer was Dave Shannon so I promptly told Dave that the bastard captain could do his own Navigating as from now and that I was going to put my feet up. Dave calmed me down by telling me he would keep a check of the time and reading of each course change he made. And so I rested until we reached Cocos and gave a new course for Colombo. Maybe I did have a short fuse but this wasn't the only time one of these supercilious snobs had so acted. On reaching Colombo the Captain stayed at a luxury hotel in the centre of Colombo, The Galface if I remember correctly, and the rest of the crew stayed at the holiday resort hotel, Mt. Lavinia, in a horrible state of disrepair. We stayed and swam here for a couple of days until the next flight arrived and then we took that aircraft to Karachi in Pakistan. From there the BOAC English crews took the passengers and mail to London. We stayed in Karachi for a couple of days until we could relieve the incoming crew. I have never in my life experienced such poverty and squalor with ragged beggars defecating in the streets and sleeping on the footpaths whilst little girls of no more that 14 years with a baby straddling their left hips approached us with their right hand extended and begging with the plaintive appeal "Buck shee sahib ?" To Read the Full Story Go Here These B707 were used on the weekly troop charters to Vietnam. Click on the Pic above to go to another website to read about the Red Tailed Rats.