No. 35 Squadron / RTFV

No. 35 Squadron RAAF formed as a transport unit in WA and had a significant impact on the success of Allied campaigns at Guadalcanal and in the jungles of New Guinea and Burma. After the Japanese surrender, No. 35 Squadron was tasked with flying Australian soldiers and ex-POWs home.  The squadron was raised again in 1966, when the RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (RTFV) was redesignated No. 35 Squadron, although its ‘Wallaby’ callsign meant that it became fondly nicknamed ‘Wallaby Airlines’. The squadron performed resupply operations in conflict zones.