Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP
Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP
Adoption
This Week in Asia /  People

US Operation Babylift ‘orphans’ are still seeking their Vietnamese parents, more than 40 years on

  • In the final days of the Vietnam war, Operation Babylift evacuated 3,000 children and took them to the West to be adopted.
  • Not all were orphans; many of them, now middle-aged adults, are still searching for their roots

Topic |   Adoption
Sen Nguyen
Sen Nguyen

Updated: 7:32pm, 29 Sep, 2019

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Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP
Children aboard an Operation Babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam war. Photo: AP
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