C-7 Caribou Saigon

A pair of twin engine Vietnamese C-7 Caribou cargo planes sitting on ramp in Saigon – 1972. Behind the nearest aircraft is a fork lift carrying a metal pallet on which are four Vietnam flag draped caskets … assume these must have been war dead. Next to the pallet are two small children dressed in white … one sitting on some sort of scooter. Never saw anything quite like this before or after WRT the children although it must have sadly been a very common occurrence. Photo taken out the right cockpit window looking back over the wing of the C-130. The C-7 was smaller than the C-123 Provider and even smaller than the C-130 Hercules in the tactical airlift aircraft hierarchy.