Adoptees later found out they were neither orphaned nor surrendered. Adults discovered they had never been US citizens. Many childhoods overshadowed by racism and abuse. The complex legacy of Operation Babylift, a humanitarian rescue effort: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Adoptees later found out they were neither orphaned nor surrendered. Adults discovered they had never been US citizens. Many childhoods overshadowed by racism and abuse. The complex legacy of Operation Babylift, a humanitarian rescue effort: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Operation Babylift II
What operation name do you think they gave the food-cart exfiltration
August 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Operation Babylift II
While we are reflecting on Kissinger’s crimes against humanity, its worth noting how the carnage he was so instrumental in causing in Southeast Asia resulted in a mini-scoop of adoptees: Operation Babylift. 🥚
Operation Babylift - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2023 at 12:06 PM
While we are reflecting on Kissinger’s crimes against humanity, its worth noting how the carnage he was so instrumental in causing in Southeast Asia resulted in a mini-scoop of adoptees: Operation Babylift. 🥚
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
April 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
FROM THE ARCHIVES | The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
www.stripes.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVES | The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Mit dem Babylift rauf, Schuss runter, nächster Babylift. Wo ist jetzt die Challenge? Das Babylift fahren? 🤔
Mit dem Babylift rauf, Schuss runter, nächster Babylift. Wo ist jetzt die Challenge? Das Babylift fahren? 🤔
Neuer Weltrekord: 101 verschiedene Skilifte in knapp elf Stunden
Kein Mensch ist in so kurzer Zeit mit so vielen Skiliften gefahren wie der Deutsche Oliver Kern
www.derstandard.at
February 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Mit dem Babylift rauf, Schuss runter, nächster Babylift. Wo ist jetzt die Challenge? Das Babylift fahren? 🤔
Mit dem Babylift rauf, Schuss runter, nächster Babylift. Wo ist jetzt die Challenge? Das Babylift fahren? 🤔
FROM THE ARCHIVES | The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
Mary Fisher holds an infant as she is surrounded by reporters aboard a World Airways plane that landed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on April 3, 1975, as part of what became known as Operation Babylift to airlift orphans out Vietnam.
Mary Fisher holds an infant as she is surrounded by reporters aboard a World Airways plane that landed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on April 3, 1975, as part of what became known as Operation Babylift to airlift orphans out Vietnam.
The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
www.stripes.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVES | The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975
Mary Fisher holds an infant as she is surrounded by reporters aboard a World Airways plane that landed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on April 3, 1975, as part of what became known as Operation Babylift to airlift orphans out Vietnam.
Mary Fisher holds an infant as she is surrounded by reporters aboard a World Airways plane that landed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on April 3, 1975, as part of what became known as Operation Babylift to airlift orphans out Vietnam.
From Black chattel slavery to Orphan Trains to Native boarding schools to Georgia Tann’s Tennessee Children’s Home (where Joan Crawford bought her baby) to Operations Babylift and Peter Pan to the modern family policing system of CPS, the USA is DEDICATED to taking children from their families. 🥚
February 22, 2026 at 7:37 PM
From Black chattel slavery to Orphan Trains to Native boarding schools to Georgia Tann’s Tennessee Children’s Home (where Joan Crawford bought her baby) to Operations Babylift and Peter Pan to the modern family policing system of CPS, the USA is DEDICATED to taking children from their families. 🥚
I enjoy talking to strangers and learning their stories. The woman who did my nails yesterday loves to talk to people because it helps her improve her English. I learned she was part of Operation Babylift, the daughter of American soldier she never knew.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
Operation Babylift - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I enjoy talking to strangers and learning their stories. The woman who did my nails yesterday loves to talk to people because it helps her improve her English. I learned she was part of Operation Babylift, the daughter of American soldier she never knew.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
“As the first babylift planes started landing in San Francisco, it soon became clear that many of the children were not, in fact, orphans. Nhu Miller…came to the Presidio to interpret for the older children and found that some didn’t know where they were. They wanted to see their parents, siblings”
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“As the first babylift planes started landing in San Francisco, it soon became clear that many of the children were not, in fact, orphans. Nhu Miller…came to the Presidio to interpret for the older children and found that some didn’t know where they were. They wanted to see their parents, siblings”
Operation Babylift quilt, made in 2000 by a woman who cared for children involved in the operation in 1975.
July 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Operation Babylift quilt, made in 2000 by a woman who cared for children involved in the operation in 1975.
Contaram isso a você nas aulas de História?
"Em 3 de abril de 1975, o exército dos EUA começava a chamada “Operação Babylift” no Vietnã, o sequestro de milhares de bebês do Vietnã, sem sequer o consentimento dos pais nem permissão do país."
🧵1/5⤵️ clique em "ver tópico completo"
"Em 3 de abril de 1975, o exército dos EUA começava a chamada “Operação Babylift” no Vietnã, o sequestro de milhares de bebês do Vietnã, sem sequer o consentimento dos pais nem permissão do país."
🧵1/5⤵️ clique em "ver tópico completo"
April 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Contaram isso a você nas aulas de História?
"Em 3 de abril de 1975, o exército dos EUA começava a chamada “Operação Babylift” no Vietnã, o sequestro de milhares de bebês do Vietnã, sem sequer o consentimento dos pais nem permissão do país."
🧵1/5⤵️ clique em "ver tópico completo"
"Em 3 de abril de 1975, o exército dos EUA começava a chamada “Operação Babylift” no Vietnã, o sequestro de milhares de bebês do Vietnã, sem sequer o consentimento dos pais nem permissão do país."
🧵1/5⤵️ clique em "ver tópico completo"
I was part of Operation Babylift. I was an infant who arrived in the US on the third airplane. I am also a transracial adoptee. This article definitely hit a nerve with me and how I feel about transracial adoptions.
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I was part of Operation Babylift. I was an infant who arrived in the US on the third airplane. I am also a transracial adoptee. This article definitely hit a nerve with me and how I feel about transracial adoptions.
FROM THE #ARCHIVES: Air Force wives volunteer for Operation Babylift, 1975
A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base in Japan on April 7, 1975 after assisting on a flight evacuating 327 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon, Vietnam.
www.stripes.com/history/arch...
A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base in Japan on April 7, 1975 after assisting on a flight evacuating 327 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon, Vietnam.
www.stripes.com/history/arch...
Air Force wives volunteer for Operation Babylift, 1975
www.stripes.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
FROM THE #ARCHIVES: Air Force wives volunteer for Operation Babylift, 1975
A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base in Japan on April 7, 1975 after assisting on a flight evacuating 327 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon, Vietnam.
www.stripes.com/history/arch...
A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base in Japan on April 7, 1975 after assisting on a flight evacuating 327 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon, Vietnam.
www.stripes.com/history/arch...
50 years after Operation Babylift evacuated thousands from Vietnam, a Colorado gathering celebrates a shared past
50 years after Operation Babylift evacuated thousands from Vietnam, a Colorado gathering celebrates a shared past
After years of ignoring her history, Devaki Murch is archiving the paper trail of people like her, building “invisible threads” of belonging
coloradosun.com
May 3, 2026 at 1:08 PM
50 years after Operation Babylift evacuated thousands from Vietnam, a Colorado gathering celebrates a shared past
The place to be, um in der alten Heimat alte Bekannte zu treffen:
Früher: Dorfdisco
Heute: Babylift
#zwischendenjahren
Früher: Dorfdisco
Heute: Babylift
#zwischendenjahren
December 30, 2023 at 3:26 PM
The place to be, um in der alten Heimat alte Bekannte zu treffen:
Früher: Dorfdisco
Heute: Babylift
#zwischendenjahren
Früher: Dorfdisco
Heute: Babylift
#zwischendenjahren
"The children of Operation Babylift, and all other descendants of American war, are both adoptees and refugees. But they are not voluntary immigrants, and they are not foreigners." — @chameauleon.bsky.social for @theverge.com
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"The children of Operation Babylift, and all other descendants of American war, are both adoptees and refugees. But they are not voluntary immigrants, and they are not foreigners." — @chameauleon.bsky.social for @theverge.com
From @chameauleon.bsky.social: Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
From @chameauleon.bsky.social: Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.
'Operation Babylift' (really!) is in full flight - the evacuation of war orphans from Vietnam, shortly before the fall of Saigon. (Many of them would turn out to have basically been kidnapped from their families.) Eventually Kim will reappear as an adult character.
May 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
'Operation Babylift' (really!) is in full flight - the evacuation of war orphans from Vietnam, shortly before the fall of Saigon. (Many of them would turn out to have basically been kidnapped from their families.) Eventually Kim will reappear as an adult character.
Today's shero is Capt Mary Klinker, a USAF nurse who was killed on April 4, 1975 in the crash of a C-5 after takeoff from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. Capt Klinker and the C-5 were taking part in Operation Babylift, the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon.
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Today's shero is Capt Mary Klinker, a USAF nurse who was killed on April 4, 1975 in the crash of a C-5 after takeoff from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. Capt Klinker and the C-5 were taking part in Operation Babylift, the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon.
children are an oppressed class. Operation Babylift. Internment. Sixties Scoop. Indigenous boarding schools from 1776 on.
detention of immigrant or Indigenous children has been happening under Biden, Obama, Clinton. Lincoln. Washington. Jefferson. the policy is child torture. it is law.
weep. act.
detention of immigrant or Indigenous children has been happening under Biden, Obama, Clinton. Lincoln. Washington. Jefferson. the policy is child torture. it is law.
weep. act.
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Analysis by The Marshall Project of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that the Trump administration’s revival of family detention has swept thousands of children into ICE custody. At least 3,800 children under 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 PM
children are an oppressed class. Operation Babylift. Internment. Sixties Scoop. Indigenous boarding schools from 1776 on.
detention of immigrant or Indigenous children has been happening under Biden, Obama, Clinton. Lincoln. Washington. Jefferson. the policy is child torture. it is law.
weep. act.
detention of immigrant or Indigenous children has been happening under Biden, Obama, Clinton. Lincoln. Washington. Jefferson. the policy is child torture. it is law.
weep. act.
Here is a weird 70s fact: Hugh Hefner loaned his private plane to help transport some orphans during operation Babylift. And some of the Playboy bunnies helped care for the children.
March 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Here is a weird 70s fact: Hugh Hefner loaned his private plane to help transport some orphans during operation Babylift. And some of the Playboy bunnies helped care for the children.
This week @theverge.com is publishing a series on the legacy of the Vietnam War. I wrote about the generation of children who were adopted from the war. While reporting this, I was struck by how historically singular the experiences of this group of people are.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption
www.theverge.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This week @theverge.com is publishing a series on the legacy of the Vietnam War. I wrote about the generation of children who were adopted from the war. While reporting this, I was struck by how historically singular the experiences of this group of people are.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
US Air Force Captain Mary Therese Klinker of Lafayette, IN was KIA #OTD 51 years ago. She was part of 'Operation Babylift' to evacuate children from Vietnam. She is memorialized on panel O1W, row 122 of "The Wall."
#WeRememberThem + #HoosierSky.
www.mtkvets.org/our-mission/...
#WeRememberThem + #HoosierSky.
www.mtkvets.org/our-mission/...
April 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
US Air Force Captain Mary Therese Klinker of Lafayette, IN was KIA #OTD 51 years ago. She was part of 'Operation Babylift' to evacuate children from Vietnam. She is memorialized on panel O1W, row 122 of "The Wall."
#WeRememberThem + #HoosierSky.
www.mtkvets.org/our-mission/...
#WeRememberThem + #HoosierSky.
www.mtkvets.org/our-mission/...