Today in History

[Gemini]

1975

During 'Operation Babylift' a plane carrying 99 Vietnamese orphans, victims of the war in Vietnam, landed at Heathrow airport.

[Daisy]

This was just a couple of weeks before my DS2 was born, and I remember feeling very emotional about those children being flown half way round the world to a strange country.

[Oma]

I remember that , my DD was only two and I remember thinking that I couldn't imagine what they were thinking bless them.