Operation Babylift

When

4 Apr 1975

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

10.84° N, 106.70° E

Description

1975 battle

Mass evacuation of children at the end of the Vietnam War

Operation Babylift was a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other Western countries at the end of the Vietnam War, in April 1975. Over 3,300 infants and children were airlifted, although the actual number has been variously reported.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Babylift, évacuation d’enfants orphelins à partir de Saïgon, au Sud-Viêt Nam, vers les États-Unis, la France, le Canada et l’Australie, endeuillée le…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page