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The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam Haroon Moghul The New Yorker)Author Contributor(s): Sachs, Dana Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 7 26 2011 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U. S. government launched "Operation Babylift," a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and place them with adoptive families overseas. Chaotic from start to finish, the mission gripped the world with a traumatic plane crash, international media