AANHPI History Calendar

· Saigon, South Vietnam / United States

Operation Babylift

history

As Saigon fell, the US airlifted some 3,000 Vietnamese orphans to America; the very first flight crashed on April 4, killing 138 aboard, most of them children.

Communities
  • Vietnamese American
Topics
  • refugees
Identity lens
  • children

Sources

  • npr.org npr.org/2015/04/26/402208267/remembering-the-doomed-first-flight-of-operation-babylift
  • dia.mil dia.mil/News-Features/Articles/Article-View/Article/566960/remembering-the-first-operation-babylift-flight