Vietnam Revisited ; Incredible Story of This War-Zone Orphan Who, 35 Years Ago This Week, Was Among the Many Airlifted to Start New Lives in the Uk

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THIRTY- FIVE years after being airlifted from the Vietnamese war zone and taken in by a South Wales couple, one of the young orphans rescued in a dramatic airlift is retracing his roots.

Le-Thanh was one of 99 babies rescued as part of 1975's Operation Babylift in the dying days of the Vietnam War, and found himself in the care of Canon John Thomas and his wife Binkie at their home in Penygraig, Rhondda.

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Vietnam Revisited ; Incredible Story of This War-Zone Orphan Who, 35 Years Ago This Week, Was Among the Many Airlifted to Start New Lives in the Uk

The 37-year-old software engineer, who lives with his wife, Rufi and their two daughters in Pontypridd, is now back in Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City, as it became) with some of the other orphans on the mercy flight, for a fortnight of celebrations for the 35th anniversary on April 6. The operation was organised in just six hours and saw youngsters gathered up from ...

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