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In one plane – a hulking C-5A US military transporter – “the children were secured two to a seat in the troop compartment,” wrote lieutenant flight nurse Regina Aune, who was on the flight. Those in the cargo compartment “were placed on blankets and secured to the floor with litter straps and cargo tie-down straps”, she explained in her book, Operation Babylift: Mission Accomplished, published in 2015 to mark the mission’s 40th anniversary.
Many of the children are handed over by young Vietnamese women sobbing at the prospect of relinquishing their babies to “strangers and foreigners from another country, speaking a language they could not comprehend”.
In 1975, thousands of babies were daringly airlifted from the Vietnam war
Some of those involved in ‘Operation Babylift’ recall the events – and what happened to the children after.