Essay On Operation Babylift

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Operation Babylift was a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries (Australia, France, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War, on April 3–26, 1975. Roughley over 10,300 infants and children had been evacuated. Along with Operation New Lift, over 110,000 refugees were evacuated from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. Thousands of children were airlifted from Vietnam and adopted by families around the world. *IMPORTANT SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT* “This just in, a plane crashed in a rice patty field after take off. Reported 130 dead, 78, were children.

Operation Babylift was an all hands on deck operation, with more than 10,000 vietnamese children being transported they out numbered …show more content…

Parents did not intend to give them up and would often visit their children. In some cases parents put their children on a Babylift plane and later left Vietnam themselves as refugees with the intention of finding their children later. Heidi Bub’s birth mother Mai Thi Kim, feared that her daughter would "be soaked with gasoline and be burnt." A chance to send the child to America was a ray of hope. Eventually only a handful of children were reunited with their Vietnamese parents but only after many years and lawsuits. Many children were caught in court battles between their birth parents and their adoptive parents. For a number of Babylift adoptees finding their birth parents is essentially impossible because no records exist.
Operation Babylift was a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries at the end of the Vietnam War, on April 3–26, 1975. Roughley over 10,300 infants and children had been evacuated. Along with Operation New Lift, over 110,000 refugees were evacuated from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. Thousands of children were airlifted from Vietnam and adopted by families around the world. *IMPORTANT SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT* “Operation Babylift was a succes with minor problems that

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