Events
BOMBER COMMAND COMMEMORATIVE WREATH LAYING CEREMONY
To be held at 11:00am on Sunday 1 June 2025
at the Bomber Command Memorial, Australian War Memorial.
The ceremony serves to pay tribute to those RAAF aircrew and ground staff who made the supreme sacrifice, and to all those men and women who served in Bomber Command, to ensure that their magnificent deeds in the 1939 - 1945 conflict are never forgotten.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy that led to the liberation of France and Europe.
For further information about this event and other associated events please visit Bomber Command Commemoration.
OPERATION BABYLIFT COMMEMORATION
To be held Wednesday 23 July 2025
The No 37 Squadron (RAAF) Association, in collaboration with the Australian War Memorial, Canberra will host a function commemorating the 50th anniversary since Headquarters Richmond Detachment 'S', incorporating Operation Babylift, deployed to Saigon in March/April 1975 in response to the South Vietnam humanitarian crisis.
Eight C-130 Hercules from RAAF Base Richmond and three C-47 Dakotas from Transport Support Flight Butterworth evacuated refugees, delivered UN supplies, and conducted Operation Babylift, airlifting infants and orphans from Saigon to Bangkok where they were flown by QANTAS B707s to Sydney for adoption in Australia.
The Association seeks to contact former members involved in these operations. If this is your first notification of the event and you wish to attend, please email raaf37sqnassoc@outlook.com with your contact information to be added to the distribution list.
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