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On this day
On this day
2 June
1953 — Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll at Westminster Abbey
1965 — Lead troops of 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, landed in Vietnam. This also marked the first of more than 600 QANTAS chartered flights moving troops to and from Vietnam, in what was to become known as “Skippy Squadron”