Operation Babylift

from Echoes of the Vietnam War · host Michael Croan, Bud Traynor, Leah Heslin

Throughout the month of April 1975, in a mass evacuation known as Operation Babylift, around 2,000 infants and children were airlifted from orphanages in South Vietnam to the United States. In this episode, we bring you stories from the first and last flights of that operation — one ending in tragedy, the other in joy.

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