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50 years later, pilot recalls Operation Babylift flight
As the Vietnam War continued into the 1970s, pressure to get U.S. troops out of the fray was mounting. By 1973, troops ...
50 years later, Air Force pilot recalls Operation Babylift flight that killed 138
As the Vietnam War continued into the 1970s, pressure to get U.S. troops out of the fray was mounting. By 1973, troops ...
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Vietnam War: Operation Babylift adoptee unites with others
Devaki Murch created the traveling exhibit “Operation Babylift: New Perspectives” to show off these very personal artifacts ...
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Operation Babylift 50 years later: Crash survivor keeps history alive
Devaki Murch, now a grown woman, was a baby aboard that ill-fated flight. As explained by the U.S. Defense Intelligence ...
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Watch the full special: ‘Operation Babylift: Flight to a New Future’
The mission became known as Operation Babylift. The first plane to leave as part of that mission took off on April 4, 1975, ...
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Vietnam War: Operation Babylift adoptee unites with others
It was a Vietnam War-era evacuation effort known as Operation Babylift and dozens of the young children aboard the plane tragically died in the accident. Devaki Murch, now a grown woman ...
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The children of the Vietnam War’s ‘Operation Babylift’ have turned 50. A look at the lives they built.
They were part of Operation Babylift, an effort led by the American military to rescue babies from Vietnamese orphanages ahead of the fall of Saigon 50 years ago this month. “This is the least ...