Aaron,
I recall reading that 1968 was the only year since WW2 that not a single British serviceman lost their life on ops.
The Herc' crews were involved in taking soldiers from Singapore to help deal with an insurrection in Mauritius that year and also IIRC flying Met plods to deal with strife in Anguilla. Also Andovers and Hercs' of FEAF flew lots of sorties into Saigon with Red Cross supplies - not sure if that counts as active service. On one occasion a crew returned to their U/S Herc' in the morning to find a few bullet holes in the tailplane - apparently there had been a firefight when some VC tried to get on the airport during the night. Glad I was safely asleep in Singapore!
LOMCEVAK
That's spooky you coming on board just then! My lovely wife ( have I mentioned her already? ) gave birth in Changi 50 years ago last April to a future colleague of yours at ETPS - Shaun.
B48N
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