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  • Operation Babylift survivor tours C-5M Super Galaxy

    Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Regina Aune describes her experiences to Staff Sgt. Anthony B. Molina, 68th Airlift Squadron flight engineer (left), and Tech. Sgt. Eric K. Ganley, 68th Airlift Squadron flight engineer (right), while on a tour of a C-5M Super Galaxy Aug. 20, 2018 at Joint Base San

  • ‘Operation Babylift’ Cheney Award recipient visits C-5 Wing

    On April 4, 1975, just a few weeks before the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, the first military flight of “Operation Babylift” out of Saigon on a C-5 cargo aircraft, crashed right after take-off. There were close to 300 hundred people on board, mostly children under the age of two that