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Orphans Land in L A Aboard Babylift Flight
About 217 Vietnamese orphans from An Loc arrived in Los Angeles with 22 headed to Norway and six to Honolulu. Doctors treated malnutrition dehydration and illnesses while Navy and Red Cross volunteers organized care at Long Beach Naval Station gymnasium.
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An Loc
Honolulu
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Los Angeles County
Long Beach Naval Facility
SAS
Norway
James Hayes
Navy Station
Richard Scott
Scott
Hayes
Claudia
Tom Bradley
International Orphans, Inc
American Red Cross
Long Beach
World Airways
County Usc Medical Center
County
USC Medical Center
Children’s Hospital
Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Children’s
Harbor General
Torrance
Martin Luther King Hospital
St. Mary Medical Center
Little Company of Mary
Daniel Freeman
Inglewood
St. John’s
Santa Monica
Ucla Medical Center
Emma McGrath
Long Beach Children’s Hospital
McGrath
Vu Tien Hoan
Vu Thi Phung
Navy Gymnasium
Red Cross
Babylift
Bay Thi Marshall
Virginia Swaffield
Greater Long Beach
The
Cmdr
Ted Gross
Navy
Gross