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	Operation Babylift -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most of the infants and adults in the upper deck areas survived.
		News of the tragic plane crash brought widespread attention and sympathy toward the operation and the evacuees in the U.S. and other nations.
		Furthermore, in several instances children evacuated in Operation Babylift were claimed by adults who had immigrated from Vietnam, leading to lawsuits over custody and parental rights.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/op/operation_babylift.htm (169 words)

	Vietnam War 1962 - 1972
		Unlike 1 RAR, the taskforce was assigned its own area of operations and included conscripts who had been called up under the National Service Scheme, introduced in 1964.
		All nine battalions of RAR served in the taskforce at one time or another before it was withdrawn in 1971; at the height of Australian involvement it numbered some 8,500 troops.
		From the time of the arrival of the first members of the Team in 1962 some 50,000 Australians, including ground troops and Air Force and Navy personnel, served in Vietnam; 520 died as a result of the war, and almost 2,400 were wounded.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/vietnam.htm (1277 words)

	Precious Cargo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the process, the film tells the fascinating story of Operation Babylift, which brought 2,000 children to America, and introduces us to many of the pioneering adoptive parents who began a movement that has grown to redefine the American family by embracing these mixed race, sometimes disabled children as their own.
		On the trip back to Vietnam, she was reunited with JANICE ANNAL, a Scottish nurse who cared for her at Holt's Center for Malnourished Infants in Da Nang and immediately recognized her at the reunion.
		DENNIS "BUD" TRAYNOR, pilot of the first Operation Babylift flight, spent years in court going through detailed accounts and the debris of the crash.
	national-adoption-month.adoption.com /information/precious-cargo.html (1788 words)

	American Experience \| Daughter From Danang \| Further Reading
		The Operation Babylift section of this online history of Clark Air Base in the Philippines includes a map of the base and photographs from the Babylift.
		A PBS documentary, Precious Cargo, followed a group of Babylift adoptees home to Vietnam.
		Explore White House documents from the time of Operation Babylift.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/daughter/filmmore/fr.html (373 words)

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