Between April 3-6, 1975, an impressive 3,300 newborns and babies were transported from Saigon to destinations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France. It seems that this was one of the largest child rescue operations in the world and was organized by the airline Pan Am.
This flight saved thousands of lives because everything was happening in the middle of the Vietnam War and the volunteers gathered all the children from the orphanages in one Pan Am plane. They put the little ones in small cardboard boxes and then attached them to the chairs.
Later, these boxes became the symbol of lives in complete safety, which would become a reality in just a few hours of flight.
“The Pan Am crews who took part in those flights remember, even now with tears in their eyes, the children who were rescued. Some of them were immediately adopted by the company’s employees. Pan Am has not been around for a long time, but thanks to that operation, it has managed to radically change the lives of thousands of children. It’s great that that company existed. And it was amazing that there were those baby-boxes, with the help of which the children could be taken out of the clutches of hell “, writes Perfect Media.
