Operation Babylift recalled 40 years later

Orphans who were adopted in US reunite with servicemen who evacuated them

As the United States was pushed out of Vietnam in 1975, and the Viet Cong were making a final push to capture Saigon, the fate of thousands of Vietnamese orphans was uncertain until then-US president Gerald Ford ordered the remaining US forces to evacuate the children.

Forty years after the final flight of Operation Babylift lifted off Vietnamese soil, 20 evacuees and their adopted families gathered on Saturday for a reunion with some of the servicemen who took part in the rescue.