Ford carries a Vietnamese baby from Clipper 1742, one of the Operation Babylift planes, at San Francisco International ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An extraordinary chapter of the Vietnam War will be celebrated Thursday night at the Presidio in San Francisco. Dozens will gather to mark the 40th anniversary of "Operation ...

HOLMDEL, N.J. - With the Viet Cong making their final push toward taking Saigon in April 1975, the fate of thousands of Vietnamese orphans was uncertain until President Gerald Ford ordered remaining ...

In April 1975, San Francisco’s Presidio served not only as a military base but as an impromptu crossroads where infants and children airlifted out of South Vietnam were cared for and then sent to ...

GRAND BLANC, MI -- Phillip R. Wise has two birthdays. The first is the day the 60-year-old was born. The second is April 4, 1975, when military medics spotted his own white medic's shirt as he dangled ...

(NEXSTAR) — Hope turned to heartbreak when a cargo plane loaded with Vietnamese orphans — headed to America — crashed 50 years ago this April. It was a Vietnam War-era evacuation effort known as ...

2 of 5 — The flight deck separated from the plane in the crash. "We came to a stop and I thought to myself, 'I'm alive,' Traynor remembers. 3 of 5 — The plane went down in a rice paddy just a couple ...

(NEXSTAR) – As the end of the conflict in Vietnam drew near, the U.S. government launched an ambitious plan to give a brighter future to the most vulnerable people in the path of the conflict: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago this month, a plane carrying about 300 people out of war-torn Vietnam crashed just after takeoff, killing nearly ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Forty years ago, a passenger jet touched down at the Oakland Airport, with precious cargo onboard from Southeast Asia. It was the first of many "Operation Babylift" flights that ...

HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — With the Viet Cong making their final push toward taking Saigon in April 1975, the fate of thousands of Vietnamese orphans was uncertain until President Gerald Ford ordered ...