Operation Babylift
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Operation Babylift was a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other Western countries at end of the Vietnam War, in April 1975. Over 3,300 infants and children were
A Babylift flight arrives at San Francisco, 5 April 1975
A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift
Amerasian
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An Amerasian may refer to a person born in East or Southeast Asia to an East Asian or Southeast Asian mother and a U.S. military father. Other terms used include War babies or G.I. Babies.
Operation Babylift
…their lives and the effects of this historic mission on their lives nearly 35 years later. Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 documentary film about an Amerasian woman who returns to visit her biological family in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam after 22 years of separation and living in the United States, having been taken…
Novelist Pearl S. Buck is credited for dubbing the term Amerasian.
Denny Tamaki, a politician of mixed Japanese and European American heritage, is the current Governor of Okinawa Prefecture.
Harry B. Harris Jr., who is of mixed Japanese and European ancestry, is an Amerasian who served as the 23rd United States Ambassador to South Korea.
Insooni is a singer who is of mixed African-American and Korean parentage.