In 1985 20/20 ABC News featured a news segment about Operation Babylift. It was the first feature that told the story of my history, the...

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The Cradle of Aviation Museum hosted a special event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Operation Babylift, a humanitarian effort to evacuate thousands of Vietnamese orphans in the final days of the Vietnam War. 

Having been taken away from Vietnam at a very young age, the war, family and the country of Vietnam were never in their memories. Many years later, the children of that year returned to find their families, to find the pieces of their lives.

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Jim Zimmerly recalls his childhood growing up in St. Louis and reckoning with being a war refugee.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of Vietnamese orphans to the U.S., Australia, France, West Germany, Canada and other Western countries as South Vietnam teetered on the brink of collapse. While the exact number of orphans flown abroad is debated, most accounts say around 3,300 children were evacuated.

Hope turned into heartbreak 50 years ago this month, when a cargo plane loaded with Vietnamese orphans bound for America crashed in a rice field. Devaki Murch was on that plane. Now she’s sharing her survival story – and the story of Operation Babylift – in a traveling exhibit.

They’re the heroes who pulled off a massive evacuation effort 50 years ago, airlifting thousands of Vietnamese orphans out of the war zone in the final days of the Vietnam War. And a Colorado woman played a critical role in the mission. “We did everything we could,” Sister Mary Nelle Gage told FOX31.

Some of those involved in ‘Operation Babylift’ recall the events of those few days as North Vietnamese troops closed in on Saigon – and what happened to the children afterwards.

The first plane to fly children out of Vietnam crashed, killing dozens. Survivors found homes across the United States. By Petula Dvorak...

WASHINGTON (7News) by Victoria Sanchez Fri, April 18th 2025 at 6:03 PM Updated Wed, April 30th 2025 at 5:26 PM The decades-long Vietnam...

Remembering the 1975 Vietnam Babylift - Pam Am airlift.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 4, 1975 Office of the White House Press Secretary (San Francisco, California) THE WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT BY...

Today is what we call our “Life Day”.  It’s a day that we came so close to the edge.  The day that death came to our door. We could have...

FOR RELEASE AT 12 noon PDT APRIL 3, 1975 3 pm EDT Office of the White House Press Secretary (San Diego, California) THE WHTE HOUSE...

USAID was instrumental in the evacuation of the children from Vietnam. Their support and relief continues in the conflicts today. I...

Dear Friends, The wonder of Boulder never ceases to amaze me. As the community center filled on Wednesday evening, I was overwhelmed by...

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World Airways DC-8 flight evacuated 58 orphans and 27 adults from Saigon. Ed Daly’s maverick approach toward these evacuation flights...

GALLERY Operation Babylift // New Perspectives exhibit is an opportunity to share what I have discovered from the time I was doing school...