Susquehanna Valley nurse recalls harrowing 1975 flight evacuating 320 orphans

Susquehanna Valley nurse recalls harrowing 1975 flight evacuating 320 orphans

A Susquehanna Valley nurse was part of Operation Babylift, an effort to relocate South Vietnamese children with the hope of giving them a better life.

Hoi An, Vietnam. Fifty years after their chaotic evacuation from Saigon in the last days of the Vietnam war, thousands of those who were then babies or young children have returned to the country in hopes of finding their biological mothers.During the chaotic last days of the Vietnam war, Americans evacuated more than 3,000 children who were later adopted in North America, Europe or Australia.The operation was highly criticized at the time becau…

'I have hope': Vietnam Babylift survivor's search for birth mother

Airlifted from Saigon as an 11-month-old baby, Odile Dussart is now back to living in the land of her birth hoping to find her biological mother.

Colorado nun remembers Operation Babylift 50 years after evacuation of Vietnamese orphans from war zone

DENVER (KDVR) -- Nuns and nurses, pilots and volunteers. They're the heroes who pulled off a massive evacuation effort 50 years ago, airlifting thousands of Vietnamese orphans out of the war zone in the final days of the Vietnam War. And a Colorado woman played a critical role in the mission. "We did everything we could," Sister Mary Nelle Gage told FOX31. Fifty years ago, in the desperate final days of the war, with Viet Cong forces closing in …

The Children of the Vietnam War’s ‘Operation Babylift’ Have Turned 50. A Look at the Lives They Built.

They are turning 50 now, the babies laid out on airplane seats, six to a row, held and fed by strangers who took turns caring for them as they took artillery fire and fled the bombs and booms of Saigon.

5-STAR REVIEW: CARRIED AWAY by Ross Meador

Publication Date: March 22, 2025 “A City in Crisis, a Mission of Mercy” As the Vietnam War reached its violent conclusion in April 1975, Saigon—now Ho Chi Minh City—was spiraling into collapse. In the final days before its fall, the U.S. government, military, and a patchwork of civilian volunteers launched Operation Babylift, a chaotic, high-stakes effort to evacuate thousands of orphaned children from the war zone. The goal: to get as many of t…